Benjamin Netanyahu’s party is attempting to prevent expats from returning to Israel to vote in the upcoming election.

Israel’s UN ambassador Friday slammed socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani for fanning the flames of anti-Israel sentiment before next week’s General Assembly meeting — only to now act as if he never did. Ambassador Danny Danon said in a sitdown with The Post that Hizzoner is “clever” — but can’t walk back his call to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the high-stakes UN meeting and then protest if that doesn’t happen.

Netanyahu made the remarks at a cornerstone-laying ceremony for a memorial honouring fallen members of Israel's Arabic-speaking Christian community at Lavi Forest near the Golani Junction. “We are facing a global attack against the State of Israel and the Israel Defense Forces,