A veteran staffer of the New York Metropolis Well being Division mentioned he wished all Israelis had been wiped off the Earth in a vile X put up not too long ago dug up.
“1 Israeli left on this world can be one too many!” Achmat Akkad, a group coordinator with the town’s Well being Division since 2017, wrote on the social media platform about one yr in the past, in accordance with the Jewish watchdog group Canary Mission.
In a November 10, 2021 deleted put up, Akkad, 40, additionally mentioned, “Jews that don’t assist apartheid are protected. Zionists aren’t!”, in accordance with screenshots taken by the group.
The alarming revelation comes after Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s Division of Well being confronted a firestorm of criticism when staffers allegedly used taxpayers’ sources to launch a “world oppression” working group assembly that accused Israel of genocide.
There’ve been requires metropolis and even federal investigations of the Well being Division over the controversy.
Akkad — who predates Mamdani — made different inflammatory statements about Israel in his archived and newly deleted X statements that had been captured in screenshots and reshared by these calling out his hate.
“Israel exists by sacrificing the blood of Black and brown individuals as an providing to white supremacy,” he mentioned in one of many posts below his deal with @AchmatX.
In one other put up from a yr in the past, he mentioned Zionists “are behind the assaults, far proper events being elected internationally, assaults on free speech, the wars in MENE, the dehumanization of Muslims, and improve in police energy…”
The Put up reached Akkad by telephone, who confirmed he works for the Well being Division and ran the X account in query. However he declined additional remark.
He as soon as referred to himself on social media because the “US Ambassador to Harlem.”
The well being employee’s X account has since been suspended. The Put up hasn’t been in a position to independently confirm the offensive posts because of this.
The Well being Division and Mamdani declined to remark.
The mayor had nothing to do with Akkad’s employment.
Akkad was first employed by the town in 2015 by the Human Sources Administration/Division of Social Companies as a group affiliate, when Invoice de Blasio was mayor.
He now makes $65,000 a yr in his job on the Well being Division.
“If that is who will get elevated into metropolis authorities, what does that say concerning the management elevating him? New Yorkers must be outraged,” Canary Mission mentioned.
