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Swastika Carved on State Department Elevator Wall
Secretary of State Antony Blinken sent an email to department staffers denouncing the swastika as “hateful” and saying that it has since been removed and the department will investigate the matter.
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A swastika was found carved on the wall of an elevator in the State Department on July 26, Axios reported.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is currently traveling to India and Kuwait, sent an email to department staffers denouncing the swastika as “hateful” and saying that it has since been removed and the department will investigate the matter.
Olympics Opening Ceremony Director Fired Over Past Holocaust Joke
In 1998, Kentaro Kobayashi did a comedic sketch where he says to his partner about paper dolls: “The ones from that time you said, ‘Let s play the Holocaust.’”
Aaron Bandler is a staff writer for the Jewish Journal, mainly covering anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias. Originally from the Bay Area, his past work experience includes writing for The Daily Wire, The Daily Caller and Townhall.
Olympics rings are seen at sunset on July 22, 2021 in Yokohama, Japan. (Photo by Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty Images)
The director of the opening ceremony in the upcoming Olympics was fired on July 21 due to a past Holocaust joke.
Google Exec Out After Admitting He Used to Be Antisemitic
Google Cloud’s Vice President of Developer Relations Amr Awadallah is no longer with the company following a post he wrote explaining how he used to be antisemitic.
The Google headquarters on September 2, 2015 in Mountain View, California. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
Google Cloud’s Vice President of Developer Relations Amr Awadallah is no longer with the company following a post he wrote explaining how he used to be antisemitic.
The June 13 post, titled “We are one!” was posted to Awadallah’s LinkedIn Pulse page; the Pulse option allows for users to post their own written thoughts. “‘I hated the Jewish people, all the Jewish people’! and emphasis here is on the past tense,” Awadallah wrote. “Yes, I was anti-Semitic, even though I am a Semite, as this term broadly refers to the peoples who speak Semitic languages, such as Arabic and Hebrew, among others.” He added that the post was about