New York City ‘Mental Health’ Staffer: October 7 Attack on Israel Justified
New York City staffer praised Hamas terrorist attack, said it’s not fair to expect people to remain peaceful after being “locked up in a cage.”
Hamas’ brutal terrorist attack on peaceful Israeli civilians was justified, according to a New York City health department staffer who focuses on “mental health” issues.
As New York City’s Muslim Mayor Zohran Mamdani takes the reins of the Big Apple, further attention is being paid to the government employees who may be harboring deep antisemitic hatred.
Among these is Achmat Akkad. “According to Akkad’s LinkedIn, he is a Mental Health First Aid Trainer at the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene,” National Review reported.
This concern for psychological issues apparently does not extend to the trauma of witnessing the murder of innocent Israelis, however.
“I think at some point you can’t ignore the injustice that continues to happen in Palestine and not think there is going to be consequences,” Akkad said during an October 8, 2023, pro-Palestinian protest in New York City.
“You can’t keep two million people locked up in a cage, denying their freedom, and expect them to be peaceful,” he told the Daily Mail. “It doesn’t work that way.”
Achmat Akkad works at the NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene. He was arrested in 2024 for pro-Hamas agitation.
On Oct. 8, 2023, Akkad took to the streets to cheer on the massacre and told the Daily Mail that he had "no sympathy" for the Israeli civilians Hamas killed. https://t.co/kgqAbe2otZ pic.twitter.com/KUqzO4AeAo
— Yehuda Teitelbaum (@chalavyishmael) February 10, 2026
As detailed by the Washington Free Beacon and Canary Mission, Akkad has a long, disturbing history of making antisemitic remarks and calling for the destruction of Israel.
He has worked for the city since 2015. The Canary Mission mistakenly calls him a “Mamdani appointee.”
“1 Israeli left in this world would be one too many,” Akkad previously wrote on X.
Canary Mission Exclusive: Mamdani’s appointee has been posting virulently antisemitic, anti-American content, and yet was elected to a public-facing NYC Health Department job. pic.twitter.com/MBrL3pHQLO
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) February 15, 2026
If this is who gets elevated into city government, what does that say about the leadership elevating him? New Yorkers should be outraged. pic.twitter.com/fUofsboEk4
— Canary Mission (@canarymission) February 15, 2026
“Israel exists by sacrificing the blood of Black and brown people as an offering to white supremacy,” he also reportedly wrote.
Meanwhile, Akkad’s co-workers have recently launched a “Global Oppression Working Group” within the health department. It meets during the day and is zeroed in on Israel, the New York Post first reported.
“We really developed in response to the ongoing genocide in Palestine,” one presenter said.
“And the working group aims to address the growing interests among the health department staff to learn about current and ongoing global oppression in its many forms and how it influences the advancement of health equity,” the person added.
The revelations come as questions are being raised about Mayor Mamdani’s appointments to various positions across the city government.
The Free Beacon reported on Feb. 9 that these appointees include “a cadre of anti-Israel extremists,” some of whom, to no surprise, also want the police abolished.
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I have said it before: a depressingly large number of NYC voters (perhaps a majority) will render judgement on Mamdani based entirely on how successful his junta is in making NYC a Jew-free zone. Preferably by killing the Jews outright, but terrorizing them into leaving is also acceptable to these voters.
All of the other issues – “affordability”, transportation, housing, health care, daycare, employment, etc. – are of no concern whatsoever to these voters. Besides: any deficiencies in those areas will be blamed on (pick one or more) big business, Christians, climate change, Trump, “gun culture”, the GOP, Wall Street, bigotry, space aliens from Area 51.
Our politicians have destroyed our country for their own power and wealth, Will there be any accurate histories of this self-destruction 100 years from now? I doubt it,
Deport him, like hauling trash to the garbage dump
He’s a US citizen, just like you. This is his country just as much as it’s yours.
He’s an enemy of all mankind. If we had any moral courage, terrorists and their supporters would be decorating overpasses.
So, bring back lynching?! One of the unloveliest aspects of US history?!
If you do that I guarantee it won’t be confined to the people you want to see lynched. And this time the FBI won’t sit on its hands either.
The FBI is already sitting on its hands. Pantifa is allowed to riot; crazy morons in MN are allowed to riot and assault federal officers and this occurs in many other places as well. Eventually people lose patience and will opt for a DIY solution. I think this would not be good. But it seems like our political-legal establishment really wants it to happen.
If you had the guts for that kind of fun you’d be in jail. Stop pretending.
Never will that statement be true
How is it not true? How is it more your country than his? His claim on it is exactly the same as yours, and the only valid claim anyone has: citizenship.
I’m genuinely curious. You’re in NYC, correct? When Achmat Akkad and his ilk, possibly all NYC employees, come for you because you are Jewish and they don’t believe you belong in this country or on this earth, what are you going to do? As you’re being dragged into the street while one of them raises a cinder block over your head and starts to bring it down, what will your last thoughts be? Glad you defended Achmat Akkad? Or full of regrets? Will you make some meaningless statement about “the law” and the “protections” it gives you that are really meaningless in the moment and Achmat Akkad and NYC don’t believe in or care about? Will you remember the people on this site that would have taken steps to defend you, but that you alienated? Will you be proud you shut them down? Or will you be praying for help that isn’t coming?
It’s on posts like this the leftist Democrat reveals himself.
He can’t help it, his knee just jerks his mask right off and typical leftist blather spews forth.
“he’s got just as much right as you” or ‘you want to bring back ‘lynching”*
why he might as well scream ‘RAYCISS!!!’.
* NOTE–The left and the Democrats have contrived a definition of ‘lynching’ that conveniently omits the fact that it was them doing it.
And the demon literally from Hell continues to lie and to libel me. Like the notorious communist Lillian Hellman, every single word Azathoth writes is a lie, including “and” and “the”.
It is an indisputable fact that the USA belongs to this person every bit as much as it belongs to every other US citizen. No one can have a greater claim on it than any other. And what Crawford proposed is explicitly bringing back lynching, a practice that historically has rarely had anything to do with race.
Well voting in a Muslim is going to get you more Muslims and their religious propaganda
“said it’s not fair to expect people to remain peaceful after being “locked up in a cage.”
I propose an experiment,
You’d think he’d be able to apply that logic to the founders of Israel, many of whom had just gotten out of for-real death camps.
But he doesn’t mean it. It’s just an attempt to disarm people who might object to evil.
former dictatorbill denazios wife who “lost” almost a billion taxpayers usd
said she wouldnt allow ny cops to be treated under her watch while she was in charge of mental healthcare of nyc
That’s the result of making it an argument over which side is more oppressed. It’s pretty obvious in those terms that the Palestinians are more oppressed.
If Israel would argue instead that its moral system is the foundation of the West’s moral system – it already acts that way but doesn’t argue that way – it could easily win. But it can’t win the oppression sweepstakes.
You insist on making a good point badly.
The way you stated it today, we should thank Israel for being the West’s originator of a morality that leads to the unfair oppression of Gazans.
Do better.
He’s not making a good point. He’s a troll.
Agreed he is a troll who says the same canned lines everytime “victim olympics.” the only victim is him and his rotting brain. Anyone who undertsands Israelis and their culture knows they are the furthest thing from having a “victim” mentality. However, the Palestinians absolutely have one and in fact their entire identity revolves around being continually oppressed, occupied and apparently “genocided,” even though there is no occupation and no genocide. Are they oppressed, yes absolutely, but it’s a state of being they same completely determined to maintain. Because if they didn’t have that then what are they? They would lose their icon status as the noble savage of the western world.
Haven’t you noticed nobody else in the Middle East seems to want the Gazans/”Palestinians” in their countries? It’s because they make trouble wherever they live. If they’re “oppressed” it’s because they did it to themselves.
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I see you’re still pleasuring yourself over Hamas 10/7 snuff videos hardin
Was it Dr. Tarr or Professor Fether who said that?
A classic case of the inmates running the asylum
Amazing how much spare time and resources these public employees have to form working groups to focus on issues that have zero bearing on their job.
A hallmark (in case you overlooked it) of the feminization of the workplace.
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/wm-introductiontosociology/chapter/leadership-styles/
While getting paid taxpayers money
Ah, yes, the evil propaganda narrative falsely alleging that the genocidal, “holy war”-supporting, Arab Muslim, so-called “Palestinians” are perennial, agency-less victims, who have no power over their choices and their lives, because they are allegedly “oppressed” by Israeli Jews.
So sick of this despicable and false propaganda.
Islam never misses an opportunity to take a strong position on barbarism.
Make no mistake that Gaza was a filthy sewer of subhumanity that lashed out at a bunch of peaceful people and butchered them in a way that their belief system (I am not calling it a religion) doesn’t allow for butchering animals.
Islam, in its entirety, is utterly incompatible with western civilization. How incompatible? Just watch what Hizzonner does to The Big Apple. It’s going to be horrible.
Stay out at all costs.
“Palestinians” are likely unique in all of history, being the only refugees who voluntarily left their land. Most refugees are driven from their homes. They are definitely the only 2nd and 3rd generation displaced persons the UN considers “refugees.” Normally, the term, as originally defined by various international bodies, only applies to the actual persons who were removed/forced from their land. Most Palestinians today do not qualify for that label, even if it was originally accurate.
It’s not about land. It’s about their hatred of the Jews and Christians.
They are working on their 5th generation now.
Inbreeds
Let me guess another guilty liberal action out. This is why mental health is important.
I am curious about how Mamdani would respond if a New York City employee posted:
“I HAVE NO SYMPATHY FOR THOSE KILLED IN GAZA.”
That “Mental health staffer” needs serious help regarding his opinions on Israel and the Jewish people. That person should definitely NOT be helping other people with their problems, as they have a very dangerous and serious problem themselves !
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