Netanyahu Accuses Mamdani of 'Hate Speech'

Benjamin Netanyahu says he'll show up in New York for the UN General Assembly this fall, regardless of what the city's mayor has said about him. In a Fox News interview Sunday, the Israeli prime minister accused Mayor Zohran Mamdani of "fomenting hate" after Mamdani called for Netanyahu's arrest on an International Criminal Court warrant over alleged war crimes in Gaza. He also used the term "hate speech" to describe the mayor's language, notes the New York Times. "He's supposed to be the mayor of all New Yorkers, Jews, Christians, Muslims, everyone."

Mamdani has since conceded he lacks the authority to arrest the Israeli PM but urged the federal government to act, and maintains that Netanyahu is "not welcome" in the city. Netanyahu, who will meet President Trump in Washington on Tuesday and will attend the funeral of former Sen. Lindsey Graham, linked recent New York stabbings of Jewish and Asian men—investigated as hate crimes—to what he described as growing fear among Jewish Americans. "They're afraid right now, and I don't think it's accidental that after [Mamdani] made this hate speech against Israel and against me, the next day, a Jew is stabbed coming out of a synagogue," he said.