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 Court, the world’s top war crimes court.

The Israeli leader told Fox News on Sunday that he was “not concerned” about Mamdani’s earlier promise and accused the mayor of “fomenting hate.”

“He’s supposed to be the mayor of all New Yorkers, Jews, Christians, Muslims, everyone, but he’s trying to turn one group against the other,” Netanyahu said.

Netanyahu referenced a pair of stabbings in New York on Thursday, in which a suspect stabbed a Jewish man and an Asian man a few blocks away.

According to police, the suspect allegedly shouted the phrase “Allahu akbar” while committing the stabbings. He has been charged with hate crimes related to each victim.

Both men survived the attacks, which drew condemnation from the city’s Jewish and Asian American leaders.

Afterward, Netanyahu said New York Jews were “scared right now.”

The mayor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Mamdani, a strong supporter of Palestinian rights, made his opposition to the Israeli military operation in Gaza a central point of his campaign last year. In a speech last week, he called Netanyahu a “war criminal.”

As part of that platform during his campaign, Mamdani promised to enforce a 2024 arrest warrant against Netanyahu from the International Criminal Court (ICC), which accused the prime minister of committing war crimes in Gaza.

Israel has denied accusations of committing war crimes in Gaza, with Netanyahu calling the accusations “false.”

The Israeli army entered Gaza after the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023. Around 1,200 people were killed and 251 were taken hostage.

Since then, more than 73,000 people have been killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza, including more than 21,000 children, according to the Hamas-run territory’s Health Ministry, whose figures are considered reliable by the UN.

Last week, after the New York Times pressed Mamdani on his promise to arrest Netanyahu, Mamdani said his administration had reviewed the law and concluded: “We do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this order.”

Mamdani urged the federal government to arrest the prime minister, saying, “Benjamin Netanyahu is not welcome in New York City.”