Several Jewish groups have voiced outrage over the Pentagon’s new deputy press secretary regarding social media comments they considered antisemitic.

The most noted post on X made by Kingsley Wilson in August was a reaction to the Anti-Defamation League marking 109 years since the 1915 lynching of Leo Frank, a Jew who had been convicted, many argued wrongly, of murdering a 13-year-old girl in Georgia. Frank was sentenced to death, but his sentence was commuted to life in prison by Gov. John Slaton. Frank was then abducted from prison by a mob and lynched.

“Leo Frank raped & murdered a 13-year-old girl. He also tried to frame a Black man for his crime,” Wilson posted on Aug. 24. “The ADL turned off the comments [to its post] because they want to gaslight you.”

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