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Arab-American Rights Group’s New Legal Director Says Jews Fake Hate Crimes, Control America — Then Deletes Posts

Dion J. Pierre

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American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) legal director Jenin Younes. Photo: Screenshot

The new legal director of one of the largest and most influential Arab-American rights advocacy groups in the US recently promoted classic antisemitic tropes on social media, claiming that American society is under “Zionist control” and that Jews routinely “fake” hate crimes against them.

Jenin Younes, who in September was hired by the American‑Arab Anti‑Discrimination Committee (ADC) to be its national legal director, made the explosive claims on X last week.

“There may be inadequate evidence to be certain in this specific instance, but the fact is it is a very common occurrence that Jewish people fake these hate crimes,” Younes said, responding to someone else’s post.

In another post, Younes replied to a tweet which claimed that Jews control the media, education system, entertainment indsutry, and government.

The ADC’s legal director responded, “100 percent. It’s dawning on me recently how insane it is I just accept that I’m subservient to them.”

Both social media posts have since been deleted. The ADC did not respond to a request for comment for this story on why the posts were erased and whether the organization agrees with and stands by her comments.

Younes’s posts came a few days after her organization filed a federal lawsuit targeting a California law which aims to combat antisemitism in K-12 schools.

Earlier this month, she led a lawsuit challenging the state over a civil rights bill which requires government officials to establish a new Office for Civil Rights for monitoring antisemitism in public schools, establish an Antisemitism Prevention Coordinator, set parameters within which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may be equitably discussed, and potentially bar antisemitic materials from reaching the classroom.

State lawmakers introduced the measure, also known as Assembly Bill (AB) 715, in the California legislature followed year-on-year increases in incidents of K-12 antisemitism, including vandalism and assault, which surged 135 percent in 2023, fueled by Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre across southern Israel. Among the ensuing spike in incidents, a Jewish girl was beaten with a stick and teased with jokes about Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.

In a statement announcing its lawsuit, the ADC argued that Arabs are victims of discrimination and that fighting antisemitic harassment in accordance with the new law undermines First Amendment protections of speech unfettered by governmental interference. Furthermore, the ADC argued that the law amounts to a hijacking of American policy by Israel, an argument advanced by neo-Nazis, including Nicholas Fuentes, and commentators who promote their views such as Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens — both of whom claim that proliferating antisemitism is an exercise of free speech.

“AB 715’s intent and effect is classroom censorship. It — probably intentionally — does not feign the conduct it targets, then points schools to federal guidance that blurs legitimate criticism of a foreign state with bigotry,” Younes said in a press release announcing the action. “That combination guarantees arbitrary punishment of educators, chills valuable classroom instruction and discussion, and deprives students of the vigorous debate the Constitution protects.”

Since joining the ADC, Younes has garnered media coverage from prominent legacy media outlets such as The Washington Post, which described her in a lengthy feature published in September as always in search of “new allies” due to her traveling across the political spectrum to promote vaccine skepticism and anti-Zionism.

Just months ago, she compared Bari Weiss, founder of The Free Press and the newly minted editor in chief of CBS News, to Nazi party official and propagandist Joseph Goebbels. Younes stood by her comparison after receiving significant backlash.

Others, including Asaf Romirowsky, executive director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME), told The Algemeiner that Younes is one among many figures pantomiming intellectual seriousness as they degrade public debate with demagoguery, conspiracy mongering, and hate regarding Israel and the prevalence of antisemitism.

“In today’s world of infotainment, facts matter even less,” he said. “In particular, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has turned into a theater for the land of make believe where Palestinians are the evergreen victims and Israelis are the victimizers. This fallacious binary view of the conflict has been amplified by historic antisemitic tropes of Jews controlling media and governments, taking a page out of the antisemitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”

He added, “Further, social media has become ripe with such rhetoric as illustrated by the ADC’s legal director Jenin Younes projecting her own biases and falsehoods in an attempt to create a predetermined outcome detached from reality, something we just witnessed at the BBC that manufactured and ignored facts in its reporting.”

Multiple BBC leaders resigned this past weekend after a leaked memo revealed that Britain’s public broadcaster misleadingly edited a speech by US President Donald Trump to make it appear that he had directly called for violence on Jan. 6, 2021, when a crowd of his supporters breached the US Capitol. The internal report also showed that the BBC’s story selection and editing largely omitted pieces criticizing Hamas or highlighting the suffering of Israelis amid the war in Gaza.

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