By: Fern Sidman – Jewish Voice News

In a development that has sent shockwaves through both the legal advocacy world and the broader Jewish community, The Algemeiner reported on Wednesday that Jenin Younes, the recently appointed national legal director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), has come under intense scrutiny after posting a series of overtly antisemitic remarks on X (formerly Twitter). Younes, who assumed her position in September, claimed in multiple social media posts that American society is under “Zionist control” and that Jews frequently “fake hate crimes” against themselves — rhetoric that observers say resurrects some of the most pernicious antisemitic tropes of the last century.

The incident, detailed in The Algemeiner report, has reignited an urgent debate over the rise of open antisemitism among some of the most visible figures in political activism, particularly in circles that style themselves as champions of “civil rights.” It also exposes what scholars and community leaders describe as a troubling convergence of left-wing anti-Zionism and traditional far-right conspiracy theories, an ideological hybrid that is increasingly weaponized against the Jewish community.

In her since-deleted posts, Younes responded to an X user who had accused Jews of staging hate crimes to gain sympathy. “There may be inadequate evidence to be certain in this specific instance,” Younes wrote, “but the fact is it is a very common occurrence that Jewish people fake these hate crimes.”

Jenin Younes, the national legal director for the American Arab Anti Discrimination Association, referred to a proud Jewish woman as a Nazi propagandist.

You deleting this tweet doesn’t erase the horrific harm of your words @JeninYounesEsq pic.twitter.com/e8t8cfDVD5

— StopAntisemitism (@StopAntisemites) September 5, 2025

In a separate exchange, she replied affirmatively to a tweet that claimed Jews control “the media, the education system, entertainment industry, and government.” Her response — “100 percent. It’s dawning on me recently how insane it is I just accept that I’m subservient to them” — drew immediate condemnation from Jewish advocacy groups and bipartisan political figures.

According to the information provided in The Algemeiner report, the ADC has refused to respond to repeated inquiries about whether it endorses or condemns its legal director’s statements. Both offensive posts have since been removed from Younes’s account, but not before screenshots circulated widely among journalists and watchdog organizations.

Younes’s comments are not an isolated lapse in judgment, analysts told The Algemeiner. They come amid a broader pattern of rhetoric that fuses contemporary anti-Israel sentiment with longstanding antisemitic motifs — the claim of “Zionist control,” the suggestion of “Jewish deceit,” and the notion that Jews exploit victimhood to manipulate society.

“These are not fringe talking points,” one expert told The Algemeiner. “They have become mainstream within certain activist subcultures that dress up conspiracy theories as ‘anti-colonial critique.’ What we’re seeing is an ideological laundering of antisemitism under the guise of social justice.”

Younes’s social media tirade, The Algemeiner report noted, occurred only days after she spearheaded a federal lawsuit against a new California law intended to curb antisemitism in public education. The law, known as Assembly Bill (AB) 715, mandates the creation of an Office for Civil Rights to monitor antisemitic incidents in K–12 schools, appoints an Antisemitism Prevention Coordinator, and sets explicit guidelines to prevent the dissemination of hate materials and Holocaust denial in classrooms.

Jenin Younes is the National Legal Director for the ADC – an Arab American anti-discrimination civil rights org. I kid you not. Mainstreamed Jew hatred. pic.twitter.com/k8MsiT619C

— e_michael 🔵🇨🇿 (@e_michael1) November 8, 2025

In the ADC’s complaint, Younes alleged that the law violates the First Amendment by suppressing free expression about Israel and Palestine. She further argued that the bill’s implementation represents “a hijacking of American policy by Israel,” echoing — as The Algemeiner report emphasized — the same arguments propagated by neo-Nazi agitators such as Nicholas Fuentes and echoed by high-profile media provocateurs Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens, who have repeatedly characterized antisemitism as a form of protected “speech.”

“AB 715’s intent and effect is classroom censorship,” Younes said in the ADC’s press release, which The Algemeiner obtained. “It points schools to federal guidance that blurs legitimate criticism of a foreign state with bigotry. That combination guarantees arbitrary punishment of educators, chills valuable classroom instruction, and deprives students of the vigorous debate the Constitution protects.”

Critics, however, contend that such rhetoric disguises something far more troubling. The Algemeiner report quoted numerous education experts who argue that Younes’s position conflates “criticism of Israel” with the dissemination of anti-Jewish propaganda, creating a false equivalence that erases the reality of antisemitic harassment in American schools.

AB 715 was introduced after a 135 percent surge in antisemitic incidents across California schools in 2023, according to state data cited in The Algemeiner report. The rise followed Hamas’s October 7 massacre across southern Israel, which reignited virulent antisemitic sentiments on campuses and online.

Jenin Younes, the recently-hired legal director of @adc, accused Jews of routinely faking hate crimes and promoted classic antisemitic tropes.

ADC recently filed a federal lawsuit to overturn a California law designed to monitor and prevent antisemitism in K-12 schools. pic.twitter.com/TZ5thFQdhb

— Israel War Room (@IsraelWarRoom) November 13, 2025

Among the most alarming incidents was the brutal beating of a Jewish girl with a stick by classmates who reportedly mocked her with jokes about Adolf Hitler. Other schools reported vandalized synagogues, defaced menorahs, and swastikas painted on classroom walls.

California lawmakers responded by drafting AB 715 to ensure educational spaces remained safe for Jewish students. “The intention was not to limit free speech,” one legislator told The Algemeiner, “but to distinguish legitimate criticism of government policy from the spread of racial or religious hatred.”

The ADC’s legal challenge, however, seeks to block the bill’s enforcement — effectively undermining protections against antisemitism under the pretext of defending “academic freedom.”

That the lawsuit’s architect is now under fire for echoing antisemitic tropes herself underscores what The Algemeiner report described as the “moral inversion” of contemporary advocacy: organizations that claim to protect minority rights increasingly giving cover to those who traffic in bigotry against Jews.

Jenin Younes stands up for the inalienable right to call Jewish children genocidal baby kiIIers while saying “Actually I’m just criticizing Israel.” pic.twitter.com/eWr3SVxMZl

— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) November 3, 2025

Younes’s appointment to the ADC in September came amid considerable media attention. The Washington Post, in a September profile referenced in The Algemeiner report, described her as “an itinerant intellectual searching for new allies” — a political chameleon who has traversed libertarian, populist, and leftist circles while cultivating a persona defined by contrarianism and provocation.

Before assuming her current role, Younes gained notoriety for her vaccine skepticism, and more recently for her anti-Zionist activism, which often blurred into overt antisemitism. Just months before her ADC appointment, Younes compared journalist Bari Weiss, founder of The Free Press and now editor-in-chief of CBS News, to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels — a comparison she defended even after widespread backlash.

As The Algemeiner reported, this pattern of behavior exemplifies how social media has become a fertile breeding ground for “pantomimed intellectualism” — where figures like Younes, with thin academic credentials but a flair for polemic, gain influence by performing defiance rather than offering substance.

One of the most incisive commentaries on the Younes controversy came from Asaf Romirowsky, executive director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), who spoke to The Algemeiner about what he sees as a deeper cultural decay.

“In today’s world of infotainment, facts matter even less,” Romirowsky observed. “The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has turned into a theater for the land of make-believe, where Palestinians are the evergreen victims and Israelis the perpetual victimizers. This fallacious binary view has been amplified by the historic antisemitic trope of Jews controlling media and governments — a page taken straight from the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”

Jenin Younes is the legal director an outfit called the “American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee,” which apparently has no problem employing a person so consumed with her hatred for Jews that she ends up agreeing with a Holocaust denier. pic.twitter.com/oShYBHMRUC

— daniela (@daniela__127) November 8, 2025

Romirowsky noted that Younes’s rhetoric exemplifies how anti-Zionist ideology often becomes a vessel for resurrecting classical antisemitism under progressive branding. “Social media has become ripe with such rhetoric,” he said, “as illustrated by the ADC’s legal director projecting her own biases and falsehoods in an attempt to create a predetermined narrative detached from reality.”

He compared the phenomenon to the recent scandal at the BBC, where top executives resigned following revelations that the network had selectively edited coverage of both President Donald Trump and the Hamas-Israel conflict to align with partisan narratives. “The manipulation of truth, whether in newsrooms or advocacy organizations, erodes the credibility of institutions that once claimed moral authority,” Romirowsky told The Algemeiner.

Founded in 1980, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee was once a respected organization that positioned itself as a counterpart to Jewish and civil rights groups such as the ADL and NAACP. But in recent years, as The Algemeiner and other outlets have chronicled, the ADC has drifted toward radicalism and politicized anti-Israel activism, alienating even moderate Arab-American leaders.

Under Younes’s legal leadership, the ADC’s rhetoric has mirrored that of fringe movements that conflate opposition to Zionism with opposition to Jewish communal life, while using constitutional arguments to mask political agendas. Its lawsuit against California’s antisemitism-prevention law, critics argue, epitomizes this transformation.

Jenin Younes—who is an imbecile—blames Bari Weiss for the death of terrorist Refaat Alareer.

Weiss’s crime? A tweet in which Weiss pointed out that Refaat Alareer celebrated the murder of Israeli children.

Younes—an imbecile—also attacks Weiss because Weiss’s publication… pic.twitter.com/AlXUAB1DTR

— Max 📟 (@MaxNordau) September 4, 2025

“Claiming that laws protecting Jewish students are acts of censorship is not a defense of liberty — it’s an endorsement of prejudice,” one California educator told The Algemeiner. “We’ve seen what happens when antisemitism goes unchallenged. To dress it up as free speech is morally bankrupt.”

The ADC’s silence in the wake of Younes’s remarks has only intensified these concerns. “When an organization dedicated to fighting discrimination tolerates overt antisemitism from its own leadership, it forfeits its legitimacy,” wrote one columnist in The Algemeiner’s editorial pages.

The Younes episode, The Algemeiner report observed, encapsulates a disturbing paradox: at a moment when antisemitism is reaching levels unseen in decades, it is often cloaked in the rhetoric of human rights. The result is a moral disorientation that conflates victimhood with virtue, allowing hate to masquerade as justice.

The modern manifestation of this dynamic, scholars say, is amplified by social media — a platform where performance eclipses truth. Figures like Younes thrive not by offering rigorous argumentation, but by appealing to resentment, exploiting digital echo chambers that reward outrage and conspiracy over evidence.

“The intellectual rot is deeper than one individual,” The Algemeiner report noted. “It reflects a culture that prizes indignation over integrity and grievance over grace.”

The Younes controversy, at its core, is not just about one lawyer’s offensive remarks. It is about the erosion of moral and factual boundaries in American discourse — the blurring of lines between critique and hate, between advocacy and demagoguery.

As The Algemeiner report indicated, this erosion threatens not only Jewish Americans but the integrity of pluralism itself. When antisemitic rhetoric is tolerated in institutions that claim to defend civil rights, it sends a chilling message: that Jews remain the one minority whose persecution can still be rationalized, relativized, or ignored.

The implications extend beyond the ADC. Across campuses, media outlets, and political organizations, antisemitic conspiracy theories — once confined to the margins — are seeping into the mainstream, normalized by activists who insist they are merely “criticizing Zionism.”

In the words of Asaf Romirowsky, as quoted in The Algemeiner, “The line between legitimate criticism and incitement has not just been blurred; it’s been deliberately erased.”

The fallout from Jenin Younes’s comments reveals something larger than an individual scandal. It exposes a crisis of integrity and accountability within sectors of American activism that claim the mantle of justice while perpetuating prejudice.

As The Algemeiner has consistently warned, antisemitism today no longer hides behind anonymity or ignorance. It walks in broad daylight, cloaked in the language of “liberation,” uttered from the podiums of NGOs and the social media accounts of lawyers, journalists, and academics.

The ADC’s refusal to renounce Younes’s remarks — or to remove her from her position — is not merely an oversight. It is a moral failure that will haunt the organization’s reputation for years to come.

The deeper tragedy, as The Algemeiner report indicated,is that a movement once founded on combating prejudice now risks becoming its enabler. And in that moral inversion lies the clearest warning: when advocacy loses its conscience, hate does not just resurface — it rebrands itself as virtue.