Netanyahu accuses NYC's Mamdani of 'fomenting hate' after arrest threat

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said he plans to attend the UN General Assembly in New York City this autumn, despite the city's mayor, Zohran Mamdani, making threats to arrest him. Mamdani walked back that threat last week, acknowledging he lacked the legal power to arrest Netanyahu on a warrant issued by the International Criminal Court, the world's top war-crimes court. The Israeli leader, who flies to the US on Monday on a different visit, told Fox News on Sunday that he was "not concerned" about Mamdani's previous pledge and accused the mayor of "fomenting hate". He will meet US President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday and attend a funeral service for the late senator Lindsey Graham. New York is not on his itinerary on this trip. "He's [Mamdani] fomenting hate. He's supposed to be the mayor of all New Yorkers - Jews, Christians, Muslims, everyone," the prime minister said on Sunday. "But he's trying to turn one group against the other. I speak to Jewish Americans, and they're afraid right now." He referenced a pair of stabbings in New York on Thursday, in which a suspect stabbed a Jewish man and an Asian man just blocks apart. The suspect allegedly sh