Boston official placed on leave over alleged antisemitic comments 

A Boston official has been placed on leave after reportedly making antisemitic comments.

True-See Allah, Director of Community Engagement at the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office, is claimed to have said in a 2016 interview that his “mentor”, Minister Don Muhammad, would not be friends with “a Jewish guy that’s got short arms and deep pockets.”

In the same interview, Mr Allah also praised the antisemitic hate preacher, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrahkan, referring to him as an “illustrious leader” and “the embodiment of righteous conduct.”

Mr Farrakhan has referred to Judaism as a “gutter religion”, seemed to imply that Jews are “evil” and “satanic” and encourage paedophilia and “sexual perversion”, blamed Jews for slavery and racist Jim Crow laws in the United States, described Adolf Hitler as a “great man” and said that Jews financed their own destruction in the Holocaust, claimed that Jews have a “stranglehold” on the US Congress using their “tentacles”, and accused Israelis and Zionists of being behind the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City. 

Mr Allah also has multiple social media praising Mr Farrahkan, such as a 2020 Facebook photo together, captioned “Tune into NOI.org to hear the Undisputed Champion for all of humanity The Honourable Min. Louis Farrakhan.”

James Borghesani, Chief of Communications at the Suffolk County District Attorney’s office said: “Mr. Allah has been placed on administrative leave while the review [of this material] takes place.”

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