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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been keeping on veteran staffers, and hiring new ones, who share his deep hatred of Israel. The latest example is Achmat Akkad, a “Mental Health First Aid Trainer,” who Mamdani is retaining, and assigning to a more senior position, despite the revelation of a series of social media posts by Akkad calling for the murder of all Israelis. Daniel Greenfield wrote about this here, and more on this scandalous affair can be found here: “New York City Health Staffer Under Fire Over Posts Calling for Elimination of All Israelis,” by Corey Walker, Algemeiner, February 16, 2026:
A veteran staffer of the New York City Health Department called for the eradication of all Israelis among a series of newly surfaced antisemitic social media posts, raising concerns about the safety of Jewish New Yorkers at a time of unease for the community with Mayor Zohran Mamdani in office.
The watchdog group Canary Mission on Sunday exposed screenshots of the since-deleted social media posts by Achmat Akkad, who according to his LinkedIn account is a “Mental Health First Aid Trainer” with the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and, since 2017, has reportedly worked there as a community coordinator.
Around a year ago Akkad posted, “1 Israeli left in this world would be one too many!”
Canary Mission also shared screenshots of a deleted Nov. 10, 2021, post in which Akkad stated, “Jews that don’t support apartheid are safe. Zionists aren’t!”
According to multiple reports, Mamdani has appointed Akkad as a “Community Engagement Training Specialist.”…
Critics, including City Council leaders, say the working group crossed a line by focusing on international politics and critiques of a foreign government instead of core public health responsibilities like managing diseases, especially on city time with taxpayer-funded time and resources.
Why talk about vaccination rates in the city schools, or health clinics in Spanish Harlem, when it’s so much more fun to denounce the “genocide” in Gaza?
Meanwhile, Mamdani has come under fire for a wave of administrative appointees with histories of antisemitic rhetoric, support for terrorist groups, or affiliations with organizations hostile to Israel and the Jewish community.
Akkad specifically has also accused Israel of sustaining itself “by sacrificing the blood of Black and brown people as an offering to white supremacy,” according to screenshots shared by Canary Mission, He also argued that Zionists were responsible for a range of global issues, including far-right political gains, the dismantling of domestic racial diversity initiatives, limitations on free speech, conflicts and turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa, discrimination against Muslims, and expanded police powers….
My, those Zionists sure are busy. Look at all the bad things they’ve done. Just take one charge — that they are responsible for all the “conflicts and turmoil in the Middle East and North Africa.”
Let’s see:
Look at it from Achmat Akkad’s — and Zohran Mamdani’s — point of view:
The Zionists have been responsible for the conflict between Morocco and Algeria over claims to the Western Sahara. The Jews in Israel caused the Arabs in Algeria to suppress the Berbers, and the Berbers to riot in Tizi-Ouzou for the right to be taught the Berber language in their schools. The Zionists were responsible for the overthrow of Qaddafi in Libya, and the subsequent war in that country between the rival governments based in Tripoli and in Tobruk. In Tunisia, the Zionists forced Ben Ali to flee the country. In Egypt, the Zionists engineered the election of Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood, and they also were behind his overthrow. In Yemen, it was the Zionists who caused the war between the Shi’a Houthis and the Sunnis of the nationally recognized government. It’s the Israeli Jews who caused the Black September terrorists to try to overthrow King Hussein’s rule in Jordan. Israeli Jews were again the ones who inveigled Saddam Hussein to attack Kuwait in1990, as a decade before, they had managed to persuade him to attack Iran, which led to a war that lasted from 1980 to 1988, and the deaths and wounding of millions. Of course, Jews in Israel started the Syrian Civil War. In Lebanon, it was again the Israeli Jews who tricked the Muslims into attacking the Christians, in order to start the Lebanese Civil War that lasted from 1975 to 1990. Given that all those inter-Arab conflicts were started by Israeli Jews, it’s hardly surprising that many Muslims, such as Achmat Akkad, echo the Nazis’ slogan:
“Die Juden sind unser Unglück” [“The Jews Are Our Misfortune”].
In the first weeks of Mamdani’s mayorship, his office has fielded a barrage of complaints over the appointment of individuals with radical views. Catherine Almonte Da Costa, who had been named Mamdani’s director of appointments, was forced to step down after social media posts from around 2011–2012 resurfaced in which she used phrases echoing classic antisemitic tropes, including references to “money hungry Jews.”
Those “classic antisemitic tropes,” including Da Costa’s reference to “money hungry Jews,” aroused such a fury that she had to resign. But no doubt she’ll quickly find employment as a staff member of the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), or as a journalist in Al Jazeera’s NYC bureau. Mamdani will no doubt be glad to provide her with a reference.
Mamdani also faced backlash after he abruptly fired Moshe Davis from his position as executive director of the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism. Davis said in comments to The Free Press that he suspects he was relieved of his duties for being “a proud Zionist.” Davis was replaced by progressive Jewish activist Phylisa Wisdom.
Mamdani fired Davis for doing his job as director of the Mayor’s Office to Combat Antisemitism too well. Instead, he replaced him with a Jewish lady, one of the anti-Zionist pro-Palestinian “progressive” sort who can be counted on to be lukewarm about defending the city’s Jews from Muslim antisemites, but happy to protect them from any threats from white far-right antisemites.
Mamdani has delivered exactly what his campaign rhetoric promised: an anti-Israel, and even an antisemitic administration. He frowned at the good — Moshe Davis — and smiled at the bad — Achmat Akkad. And — to continue the rhyme from Bemelmans’ Madeleine — sometimes he makes the people of New York City very sad. But cheer up: Mamdani is going to make such a mess of the city’s economy, with his non-profit city grocery stores, and free universal childcare, and severe caps on raising the rents of rent-stabilized apartments, that there is a good chance that he will not be re-elected when his four-year term is up. Just hang on, people of New York. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
