The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which claims to battle antisemitism, has scrubbed its website of information about a former intern who removed posters from the New York University (NYU) campus about Israeli hostages taken by Hamas.
Earlier this week, Yazmeen Deyhimi, a junior at NYU, was one of several students “who brazenly ripped down posters of Israeli hostages,” according to the New York Post. Deyhimi participated in this despite previously working as an intern for the ADL, an organization that hailed her as an activist “extremely passionate about fighting racial profiling.” After her actions went viral on social media, Deyhimi semi-apologized on Instagram in a now-deleted post:
I have found it increasingly difficult to know my place as a biracial brown woman, especially during these highly volatile times,” she wrote. “I have felt more and more frustrated about the time we currently find ourselves in, and that misplaced anger into actions that are not an accurate representation of who I am as a person.
“In this age of social media and digital footprint, these moments of anger are selfish and self-absorbed, and not reflective of who I am as a person or who my family had raised me to be,” she added.
Deyhimi did say that she does not support terrorism and that she hopes the Israeli hostages safely return home. Per the New York Post, her LinkedIn profile labels her as “an advocate against Muslim bigotry” who “spent a summer working with the ADL as a CSC education intern when she was just 15 years old.”
A spokesperson for the ADL later told The Post that the organization condemns her actions and hopes “that the apology she issued is the first step towards working to repair the harm and deep hurt her actions caused.”
Social media users later discovered that the ADL scrubbed information on its website pertaining to Deyhimi.
BREAKING: The @ADL just scrubbed their website to remove information about their intern who was filmed ripping down posters at @nyuniversity of the hostages taken by Hamas terrorists. @JGreenblattADL
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 18, 2023
This is the before and after https://t.co/HeZ28l5tvT pic.twitter.com/5snlN2T2Cv
You can’t make this up! One of the students at @nyuniversity who ripped down posters of the hostages taken by Hamas terrorists has the @ADL in her Linkedin bio. She worked for them. @JGreenblattADL https://t.co/pHHxhnaQkX pic.twitter.com/j946jrO75Q
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 17, 2023
As Breitbart’s Joel Pollak recently noted, the ADL has become increasingly partisan over the past decade, departing from its roots as an organization dedicated to fighting antisemitism.
For instance, in 2021, current ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt called for the firing of Fox News host Tucker Carlson after Carlson suggested that Democrats were importing vast numbers of illegal immigrants to increase their voting base. (Ironically, Greenblatt had nothing to say about the many antisemitic sins of MSNBC’s Rev. Al Sharpton, on whose show he has often appeared.)
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