Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu used an image of Mayor Zohran Mamdani alongside terror leaders and the president of Turkey in a billboard for his re-election bid.
The massive sign, slapped in the middle of Tel Aviv’s Ayalon highway, shows Mamdani with Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
“They want Netanyahu to lose,” the billboard reads. “Don’t let them win.”
Netanyahu has often clashed with Mamdani after the NYC mayor slammed him as a “war criminal” over the Israeli military’s actions in Gaza.
Mamdani has also repeatedly threatened to arrest Netanyahu under an International Criminal Court warrant if he attempts to enter New York for next month’s United Nations General Assembly.
However, he later had to admit that the NYPD does not have the power to arrest a foreign leader on international charges.
The billboard is notably not the first time Netanyahu has invoked Mamdani during the campaign for his Likud party.
The prime minister used the NYC mayor’s opposition against him, including the “war criminal” quote, as an endorsement in an ad that was capped off with the same message seen in the billboard.
Mamdani, who is on vacation in Update New York, has yet to comment on Netanyahu’s use of his image.
