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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Rhian Lubin

Pentagon press secretary has a ‘long history’ of bigoted social media posts and now faces calls to resign

A Pentagon press secretary with a “long history” of bigoted and antisemitic social media posts faces calls to resign.

Jewish organizations have blasted the appointment of Deputy Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson, who compared the murders of Israeli infants during the October 7 Hamas attacks to abortion. She has also peddled the antisemitic conspiracy theory about Leo Frank, a Jewish businessman who was wrongly convicted and hanged for the murder of a 13-year-old Georgia girl in 1951.

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