Bigger than 70 Negate Division officials despatched a letter to Secretary of Negate Antony Blinken about “an openly antisemitic department worker” and calling for him to be eliminated.
“No longer finest is his propagation of antisemitic ideas highly traumatic and offensive to Jewish and non-Jewish workers alike, nonetheless as Jewish workers, we in actuality feel his presence at the Division is threatening,” states the letter, which modified into organized by the Jewish Americans and Mates in Foreign Affairs worker community.
At field is the ongoing employment of Fritz Berggren, a U.S. international service officer who maintains a enviornment that requires the formation of Christian nation-states while writing and publishing movies serious of Jews and the LGBTQ community.
The community says the web page, bloodandfaith.com, has been online since 2017 and would possibly well well merely disqualify Berggren from continued employment.
“Fritz Berggren’s continued employment is an affront to all of us and the values we portion. Whereas there would possibly well well be HR processes underway, they atomize now not appear like having an affect and are interestingly proceeding very slowly as Berggren has been posting this convey since now not lower than 2017,” the letter, which modified into despatched to Blinken on July 28, reads.
Berggren didn’t straight away acknowledge to a Fox Records quiz of for comment.
The letter comes after a July incident whereby workers stumbled on a swastika carved into an elevator at the Negate Division’s headquarters in Washington in July. Blinken and President Biden each fleet condemned the incident and the Negate Division launched an investigation.
“Whereas there isn’t this form of thing as a evidence that Berggren is within the serve of the swastika carved into the Division elevator, his continued employment with seemingly no consequences sends a message of impunity that has certainly contributed to the atmosphere whereby someone would dare to atomize this form of element,” the letter reads.
Blinken answered to the letter on Aug. 9, promising the community that he takes the topic severely.
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“I beget to guarantee you that the Division treats reviews of alleged misconduct with the utmost seriousness,” Blinken said, along with that he would possibly well well now not comment on the true worker “for privacy reasons” nonetheless eminent that workers engaged in discriminatory habits can face penalties “as a lot as and along with separation when warranted.”
The Negate Division didn’t straight away acknowledge to a Fox Records quiz of for comment.
