Outgoing New York Mayor Eric Adams said on Sunday during a visit to Israel that if he were a Jewish New Yorker he would be concerned about his children following this month’s election of his replacement, Zohran Mamdani.

“If I were a Jewish New Yorker I would be concerned about my children,” Adams said at a Tel Aviv event organized by the Combat Antisemitism organization. “We need to be honest about the moment and cannot sugarcoat it.”

He cautioned that it has now become “cool and hip” to be antisemitic around the globe, including in New York City—home to the largest Jewish population outside of Israel—and that a whole generation has been raised on lies picked up via social media.