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Former football staffer says boss used 'Jewish slurs'
Arutz Sheva ^ | 5222 | Ron Kampeas

Posted on 02/05/2022 9:17:56 AM PST by Eleutheria5

A former staffer for the Washington football team now called the Commanders accused her boss of using “Jewish slurs” and other forms of verbal harassment during her time with the organization.

“I was called Jewish slurs that refer to a non-Jewish woman that you are sexualizing,” Emily Applegate said Thursday during testimony to the US House of Representatives Oversight Committee, which is probing allegations of harassment and misconduct within the NFL franchise. “A slur which I will not repeat a rabbi described as ‘simply indefensible, condescending, racist, and misogynistic.'”

Applegate did not name her boss in the testimony, but The Washington Post, which in 2020 broke the allegations by at least 15 women of a culture of sexual misconduct, said it was Mitch Gershman, the chief marketing officer. Gershman at the time denied Applegate’s allegations.

Applegate worked for the team in 2014 and 2015. Gershman left the team in 2015.

Applegate said that Dan Snyder, the Jewish owner of the team, is responsible for the alleged harassment.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: dcfootballtm; gmafb; slurs; snyder
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To: wardaddy

Of course. Pale of Settlement.


61 posted on 02/06/2022 6:35:13 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (Buck Foe Jiden!I)
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To: boycott

She’s guilty.


62 posted on 02/07/2022 6:54:17 PM PST by steve8714 (Evidently the Oxford comma is racist, sexist, or homophobic. You decide which.)
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