NYC Health Department staffer wished Israelis were wiped off Earth in vile resurfaced X post: report

"A veteran staffer of the New York City Health Department said he wished all Israelis were wiped off the Earth in a vile X post recently dug up. "1 Israeli left in this world would be one too many!" Achmat Akkad, a community coordinator with the city's Health Department since 2017, wrote on the social media platform about one year ago, according to the Jewish watchdog group Canary Mission."

"In a November 10, 2021 deleted post, Akkad, 40, also said, "Jews that don't support apartheid are safe. Zionists aren't!", according to screenshots taken by the group. The alarming revelation comes after Mayor Zohran Mamdani's Department of Health faced a firestorm of criticism when staffers allegedly used taxpayers' resources to launch a "global oppression" working group meeting that accused Israel of genocide."

"Akkad - who predates Mamdani - made other inflammatory statements about Israel in his archived and newly deleted X statements that were captured in screenshots and reshared by those calling out his hate. "Israel exists by sacrificing the blood of Black and brown people as an offering to white supremacy," he said in one of the posts under his handle @AchmatX."

Achmat Akkad, a community coordinator with the New York City Health Department since 2017, posted antisemitic statements on X including wishing all Israelis were wiped off the Earth and calling Zionists unsafe. Screenshots of deleted posts dated November 10, 2021, were shared by Canary Mission and included claims that Jews who do not support apartheid are safe. The Department of Health and Mayor Zohran Mamdani's office faced criticism over a separate "global oppression" working group meeting that accused Israel of genocide. Akkad confirmed his employment but declined further comment; his X account has since been suspended and some posts could not be independently verified.

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