Citi is facing calls to fire one of its personal bankers after she defended Hitler and the holocaust.
CUNY Brooklyn College graduate Nozima Husainova, 25, sparked outrage with the remark which she posted on her now deleted Instagram page.
Responding to a post about the Gaza hospital bombing that Israel has denied, she wrote: ‘No wonder why Hitler wanted to get rid of them all,’ complete with a smiley face emoji.
A spokesman for Citi said it was ‘investigating the matter and taking appropriate disciplinary action’.
But its customers are accusing the bank of tolerating ‘unbridled anti-Semitism’ among its staff and warning that it faces a boycott.
Citi personal banker Nozima Husainova has now deleted her Linked in profile
Husainova’s comment on Instagram sympathizing with Hitler has led to calls for her job
The banker’s now deleted Instagram page illustrates the glamorous lifestyle of the young Brooklynite
‘Hey Citi, does your commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion include nazis?’ wrote Daniel S Levy on X, formerly Twitter.
‘What does it say about Citi,’ asked Marian Kruss.
‘This is NOT inclusiveness and your organization needs to fire her.’
‘Where can I send a complaint about one of your employees, Nozima Husainova, praising Hitler’s extermination of Jews?’ asked Lenny Luchese.
‘Or does Citi condone her words? Vile and despicable.’
‘We are investigating this matter and taking appropriate disciplinary action, We strongly condemn antisemitism and other hate speech,’ the bank said in a tweet.
Husainova majored in finance in June 2021 after five years at the college in New York’s Bedford Avenue.
Her now deleted LinkedIn profile suggests she is in her second year with the Wall Street bank whose parent company Citigroup employs 240,000 people across the world.
Personal bankers earn an average of $72,056 at Citi in the US according to Salary.com and the bank describes their role as ‘to foster relations with customers to build loyalty and to help increase sales to individual consumer clients’.
The outrage comes after a host of senior CEO’s warned they would not employ students who had blamed Israel for the Hamas terror attack that took 1,400 lives.
And one of America’s most prestigious law firms rescinded job offers on Tuesday for three students who put the blame on Israel in the wake of the Hamas terrorist attacks.
Davis Polk reversed employment offers to those the company reportedly believed led organizations at Harvard and Columbia universities that issued statements blaming Israel for the violence.
The firm added that it would re-evaluate the decision for two of the students, who appealed the verdict and claimed they did not authorize the letters, which were unsigned.
‘We are investigating this matter and taking appropriate disciplinary action, We strongly condemn antisemitism and other hate speech,’ the bank said in a tweet.
Davis Polk, which did not identify the students, said in a statement: ‘The views expressed in certain of the statements signed by law school student organizations in recent days are in direct contravention of our firm’s value system.’
The company added that it will ‘continue to maintain a supportive and inclusive work environment’, and said that ‘the student leaders responsible for signing on to these statements are no longer welcome in our firm.’
In an interview with The New York Times on Tuesday, Davis Polk managing partner and chair Neil Barr insisted the company does not wish to employ any supporters of the Hamas attacks.
The move also reportedly spurred a large number of law students who were set to be employed by Davis Polk to reach out to the company to say that they did not support the statements, according to Davis Polk spokeswoman Katie Moss.
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