There’s a quality that liberal social-protest dramas tend to have in common. They’re usually about revolutionary moments we’re come through and are on the other side of, so they can encourage the audience to feel — with a touch of sanctimony — that yesterday’s revolution was never anything but today’s common sense. That’s been true of
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he planned to attend the UN General Assembly in New York City this fall, despite the city’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, threatening to arrest him. Mamdani walked back that threat last week, acknowledging that he lacked the legal power to arrest Netanyahu with a warrant issued by the International Criminal