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Home Front: Politix
Judenfrei: NYC City Hall boots Israel drone supplier from Brooklyn Navy Yard — after Mamdani took office
2026-02-17
[NYPost] A NYC manufacturer that supplies drones to Israel to monitor the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip border was booted from the city-owned Brooklyn Navy Yard six weeks after pro-Paleostine Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp. — whose board members serve at the pleasure of the mayor and manage the 300-acre industrial park — opted not to renew its lease with Easy Aerial, Councilman Lincoln Restler (D-Brooklyn) gloated on X Thursday.

"This public asset should not be leasing space to companies producing drones that are being transformed into weapons of war," he said.

The company has long been the target of protests outside the former Navy shipyard, including by a group called "Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard" that demanded the board evict tenants that assist Israel.

State Assemblyman Kalman Yeger (D-Brooklyn), a staunch Zionist, said the decision to boot Easy Aerial is foolish.

"Chasing good jobs out of New York because Mr. Mamdani and his friends hate Jews is probably not a very good economic development program," he said.

Easy Aerial’s exodus from the Fort Greene side of the industrial park illustrates the change in philosophy at City Hall since Mamdani was sworn in as mayor on Jan. 1.

Former Mayor Eric Adams
...Hizonner da Mare of Noo Yawk. As a Manchurian candidate, Hizonner was all in favor of law and order and that kind of stuff. Once in office, a bunch of his friends found cushy jobs with the city, the windows kept getting broken, and Soros-funded DA Alvin Bragg remained right where he was. Most people comfort themselves with the thought that he's not Bill di Blasio but that's pretty small comfort with kids who actually go to school getting bumped off while standing in front of them. But he's a Dem, so the rubes will vote for him next election too, so he's what they deserve...
, a retired ex-cop and avid Israel supporter, was so impressed with a joint presentation by Easy Aerial and Tel Aviv-based Blue White Robotics at a NYC-Israel Chamber of Commerce event in 2022 that he once mulled using a mini-army of their drones to fight crime in the Big Apple, The Post previously reported.

Besides assisting the Israel Defense Forces with border monitoring, Easy Aerial also has a longstanding relationship with the US Air Force and other federal agencies, and its spies-in-the-sky have been used to monitor suspicious activity along the Mexican border.

Its high-profile work also includes Super Bowl security.

Ivan Stamatovski, who heads Easy Aerial, did not return messages. Ido Gur, another co-founder no longer involved with the company, said he found the Navy Yard’s decision "upsetting" but declined further comment.

The Mayor’s Office did not return messages.

When asked if Israel-Paleostine politics played a role in its decision, BNYDC spokesperson Claire Holmes said the non-renewal was "for business reasons related to operational and campus compliance matters. Like any landlord, we evaluate renewals based on adherence to lease terms and campus policies."

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

There’ve been calls for city and even federal investigations of the Health Department over the controversy.

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.

In another post from a year ago, he said Zionists “are behind the attacks, far right parties being elected across the world, attacks on free speech, the wars in MENE, the dehumanization of Muslims, and increase in police power…”

The Post reached Akkad by phone, who confirmed he works for the Health Department and ran the X account in question. But he declined further comment.

He once referred to himself on social media as the “US Ambassador to Harlem.”

The health worker’s X account has since been suspended. The Post hasn’t been able to independently verify the offensive posts as a result.

The Health Department and Mamdani declined to comment.

The mayor had nothing to do with Akkad’s employment.

Akkad was first hired by the city in 2015 by the Human Resources Administration/Department of Social Services as a community associate, when Bill de Blasio was mayor.

He now makes $65,000 a year in his job at the Health Department.

LI pol 'silenced' by Dems while trying to grill Mamdani about antisemitism
[NYPost] Orthodox Republican rep Ari Brown told The Post that his “pure communist” colleagues wanted “to prove to Zohran that they hate the Jews.

“They silenced me for demanding answers about rising hate against the Jewish community,” he said.

“Every New Yorker should understand exactly how dangerous that is.”

Brown was trying to use his allotted time to confront the Democratic socialist Mamdani about New York City’s alarming rise in antisemitic incidents — a surge of 182 percent — during the mayor’s first month in office and also his failure to “unequivocally condemn” the slogan “Globalize the intifada,” which critics say encourages violence against Jews.
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