New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was trying to distract the world from the humanitarian crisis in Gaza when Netanyahu openly criticized Mamdani at the U.N. General Assembly last week.

“All of this is an attempt to distract from responsibility. Name as many people as possible. Try and make it into a back and forth,” Mamdani said of Netanyahu’s supposed strategy in a Thursday appearance on Theo Von’s podcast.