An employee of the Illinois comptroller’s office was fired Thursday after the office learned she had made antisemitic comments during an exchange on social media.
CHAMPAIGN — The comments by the employee, who the comptroller’s office did not name, were part of an Instagram exchange of insults with another user, who then publicly posted the exchange on their account. In some of the posts during the exchange, the employee called the other Instagram user a “ZIONIST PIG” and said “all Zionists will pay.” The employee also wrote that “Hitler should have eradicated all of you.
“Comptroller Mendoza has zero tolerance for anti-semitism or hate speech,” Pallasch said, while citing a separate statement from Mendoza in which she expressed support for Israel’s right to defend itself in its war against Hamas. “The employee was immediately fired.” Postings on social media identify the employee as Sarah Chowdhury, who worked as a legal counsel for the comptroller’s office.
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