Citi has fired one of its personal bankers after she defended Hitler and the Holocaust in a vile anti-Semitic article following the Hamas terrorist attacks.
Nozima Husainova, 25, a CUNY Brooklyn College graduate, sparked outrage with the remark she posted on her now-deleted Instagram page and has since lost her job, the bank confirmed Thursday.
In response to an article about the Gaza hospital bombing that Israel denied, she wrote: “No wonder Hitler wanted to get rid of them all,” along with a smiling emoji.
A Citi spokesperson called Husainova’s comments “revolting” and said hate speech would not be tolerated at their bank.
“We have fired the person who made this disgusting anti-Semitic comment on social media. We condemn anti-Semitism and any hate speech and do not tolerate it in our bank,” a spokesperson told DailyMail.com.
Citi’s personal banker Nozima Husainova has now deleted her linked profile
Husainova’s Instagram comment sympathizing with Hitler led to calls for her post
Customers accused the bank of tolerating “unbridled anti-Semitism” among its staff and warned it risked a boycott.
“Hey Citi, does your commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion include Nazis? » wrote Daniel S Levy on X, formerly Twitter.
“What does that say about Citi,” asked Marian Kruss.
“This is NOT inclusiveness and your organization needs to fire it.” »
“Where can I send a complaint against one of your employees, Nozima Husainova, who praises Hitler’s extermination of the Jews? asked Lenny Luchese.
“Or is Citi condoning his comments?” Vile and despicable.
“We are investigating this matter and taking appropriate disciplinary action. We strongly condemn anti-Semitism and other hate speech,” the bank said in a tweet.
Husainova majored in finance in June 2021 after five years at the Bedford Avenue college in New York.
Her now-deleted LinkedIn profile suggests she is in her second year at the Wall Street bank whose parent company Citigroup employs 240,000 people around the world.
Personal bankers earn an average of $72,056 at Citi in the United States, according to Salary.com, and the bank describes their role as “fostering relationships with clients to build loyalty and help increase sales to retail clients.” “.
The outrage comes after a number of senior executives warned they would not hire students who had blamed Israel for the Hamas terror attack that claimed 1,400 lives.
And one of America’s most prestigious law firms on Tuesday rescinded job offers from three students who blamed Israel in the wake of Hamas terrorist attacks.
Davis Polk rescinded job offers to those the company said led organizations at Harvard and Columbia universities that issued statements blaming Israel for the violence.
The company added that it would reevaluate the decision for two of the students, who appealed the verdict and claimed they did not authorize the letters, which were not signed.
The banker’s now-deleted Instagram page illustrates the young Brooklynite’s glamorous lifestyle
“We are investigating this matter and taking appropriate disciplinary action. We strongly condemn anti-Semitism and other hate speech,” the bank said in a tweet.
Davis Polk, who did not identify the students, said in a statement: “The views expressed in some of the statements signed by law school student organizations in recent days are in direct contradiction to our firm’s value system .”
The company added that it “will continue to maintain a supportive and inclusive work environment” and said that “student leaders responsible for signing these declarations are no longer welcome at our company.”
In an interview with The New York Times on Tuesday, Neil Barr, managing partner and president of Davis Polk, insisted that the company does not want to employ supporters of Hamas attacks.
The move also reportedly prompted a large number of law students who were to be employed by Davis Polk to contact the company to say they did not support the statements, according to Davis Polk spokeswoman Katie Moss.
