New York City, if the polls are right, is at another signpost in its mayoral politics history.

It was 30 years ago — on Oct. 23, 1995 — that Mayor Rudy Giuliani had Yasser Arafat, the visiting president of the Palestinian National Authority and a loathed figure in Israel, kicked out of a concert at Lincoln Center.

Spin forward to this year’s mayoral campaign, whose early voting period begins on Saturday: City voters appear on the verge of electing Zohran Mamdani, who has championed the cause of Palestinians and called for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should he visit New York.

Nobody says they expect the arrest to actually happen, but Mamdani supporters and detractors alike contend the anticipated messaging around Middle East politics from City Hall if Mamdani

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