{"id":1090701,"date":"2021-12-06T16:43:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T21:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1090701"},"modified":"2021-12-06T16:43:35","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T21:43:35","slug":"top-official-for-major-city-resigns-over-reports-of-anti-semitic-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-official-for-major-city-resigns-over-reports-of-anti-semitic-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Official For Major City Resigns Over Reports Of Anti-Semitic Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftop-official-for-major-city-resigns-over-reports-of-anti-semitic-comments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1090701&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"47.778317938746\">\n<p>Philadelphia Commerce Director Michael Rashid resigned Sunday after coming under fire for allegedly making anti-Semitic comments and verbally abusing staff.<\/p>\n<p>Reports show several Facebook posts Rashid made, containing inflammatory comments about religion and other anti-Semitic remarks. More details emerged in late November about Rashid\u2019s alleged conduct towards black women who worked in the commerce department, Phillyvoice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/philly-commerce-director-resigns-michael-rashid-anti-semitic-remarks-social-media-controversy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Senior department officials and staffers have abruptly left throughout 2021, alleging Rashid in promoting a toxic work environment, Phillyvoice reported. Others alleged Rashid of making anti-Semitic comments, such as describing \u201cSchindler\u2019s List\u201d, an Academy Award winning film about the Holocaust, as \u201cJewish propaganda,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/news\/philadelphia-commerce-director-michael-rashid-jim-kenney-20211205.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to The Philadelphia Inquirer.&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/19\/archdiocese-philadelphia-priests-catholics-vaccines-exemptions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Archdiocese Of Philadelphia Orders Priests Not To Give Catholics Vaccine Exemptions)<\/a><br \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In several social media posts, the former commerce director seemed to condone shooting police officers who are considered racist as well as an unconfirmed quote connected to Malcom X classifying Jewish neighborhoods as \u201cJew Town,\u201d Phillyvoice reported.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.5202312138728\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Today, I accepted the resignation of Commerce Director Michael Rashid.<\/p>\n<p>My full statement: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZG775Y3IFt\">https:\/\/t.co\/ZG775Y3IFt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jim #VaxUpPhilly Kenney (@PhillyMayor) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PhillyMayor\/status\/1467561632889032705?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cToday I offered, and Mayor Kenney accepted, my resignation as Director of Commerce. My continued service would serve as a distraction from the work of the Department, which is far too important to the City and region,\u201d Rashid\u2019s statement read, <a href=\"https:\/\/philadelphia.cbslocal.com\/2021\/12\/05\/philadelphia-commerce-director-michael-rashid-resigns-anti-semitic-abused-staff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to CBS Philly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also have had the opportunity to speak with leaders of the Jewish community in Philadelphia and apologize for my previous comments which were inappropriate and insensitive. I look forward to future engagement with the community going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rashid previously served on President Barack Obama\u2019s National Council on Minority Health and Health Disparities and carries experience as a former health care executive, Phillyvoice <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyvoice.com\/philadelphia-commerce-director-michael-rashid-race-facebook-posts-toxic-workplace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Commerce Director Michael Rashid resigned Sunday after coming under fire for allegedly making anti-Semitic comments and verbally abusing staff.Reports show several Facebook posts Rashid made, containing inflammatory &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}