‘No Wonder Hitler’: Nozima Husainova, Citi Personal Banker, Fired for Making Anti-Semitic Comment – News18

Nozima Husainova, a 25-year-old female employee of Citi banking group, was fired from her role after she praised Hitler and the Holocaust in a hateful anti-Semitic following the terrorist group Hamas’s attack on Israel. The City University of New York Brooklyn College graduate who was a personal banker with the major banking firm made the remark on her Instagram account earlier this week.

She deleted her post but was fired by the bank on Thursday.

Husainova commented on a post about the Gaza hospital bombing that Israel denied. Over 200 people have died in the Ahli Arab hospital bomb blast in Gaza City. “No wonder why Hitler wanted to get rid of them all,” Husainova commented, with a smiley face emoji.

Her comment received backlash from many social media users and attracted Citi’s attention when those users tagged the bank in their messages. “We terminated the employment of the person who made the revolting antisemitic comment on social media. We condemn antisemitism and all hate speech and do not tolerate it in our bank,” a Citi spokesperson said.

A finance graduate, Husainova, studied for five years at the college in New York’s Bedford Avenue. She also deleted her LinkedIn profile but it suggested that she was working for two years at the Wall Street bank whose parent company Citigroup has 240,000 employees globally.

Taking sides in the 2023 Israel-Palestine conflict has come with a cost. Student groups in Harvard and Oxford universities took out statements blaming Israel for the attack.

This has resulted in halting of funds and several CEOs saying that students who blamed Israel for the Hamas terror attack that killed 1,400 people will not be hired.

A top firm withdrew job offers last week for three students who blamed Israel for the Hamas terrorist attacks. The firm, Davis Polk, cancelled employment offers for students who led groups at Harvard and Columbia universities that released statements accusing Israel.

“The views in some of the statements signed by law school student groups recently go against our firm’s value system,” the firm said in a statement.

The firm did not name the students but highlighted that the “student leaders who signed these statements are not welcome in our firm”. Davis Polk’s managing partner and chair Neil Barr said it did not want to hire supporters of Hamas’ actions in Israel.