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Mamdani expells NYC drone firm over ties to ‘Israel’ in Brooklyn Navy Yard move (en.royanews.tv)

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has moved to force a drone manufacturer out of the city-owned Brooklyn Navy Yard, with critics accusing City Hall of deliberately targeting the company over its links to ‘Israel’ and its role in monitoring the Gaza Strip border.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corporation declined to renew the lease of Easy Aerial just six weeks after Mamdani took office, a decision that has been framed by allies of the mayor as an ethical stand and by opponents as politically driven retaliation.

New York City Council member Lincoln Restler openly celebrated the company’s removal, saying public land should not be used by firms whose technology is “being transformed into weapons of war.”

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[–] IcePee@lemmy.beru.co 22 points 1 month ago

critics accusing City Hall of deliberately targeting the company over its links to ‘Israel’ and its role in monitoring the Gaza Strip border.

Read critics are accusing City Hall of reducing liability for abetting war crimes.

Although, since the US hasn't signed up to many international treaties of that sort, there probably isn't going to be any kind of punishment due.