Over 70 State Department Staff Pen Letter Asking Blinken to Remove 'Anti-Semitic' Employee
More than 70 employees at the U.S. Department of State signed a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling for the removal of "an openly antisemitic department employee" who runs a website on which he posts anti-Semitic remarks, Foreign Policy reported.
Along with those remarks, Fritz Berggren, who posts his views on BloodAndFaith.com, has also reportedly targeted LGBTQ+ individuals and called for the creation of Christian nation-states. In his posts, he has called Jewish people "the seed of the Serpent, that brood of vipers," claimed LGBTQ+ individuals "groom children for destruction," and written, "If the U.S. Refuses To Be A Christian Nation, It Will Be Destroyed."
Berggren, who serves as a mid-ranking Foreign Service officer, uses both his name and image on the website. His affiliation with the State Department was first reported by Politico in late February of this year. The letter, organized by the Jewish Americans and Friends in Foreign Affairs State Department employee group and the U.S. Agency for International Development, lamented the lengthiness of the human resources review process.
"Fritz Berggren's continued employment is an affront to all of us and the values we share," the letter obtained by Foreign Policy, writes. "While there may be HR processes underway, they do not appear to be having an impact and are apparently proceeding very slowly as Berggren has been posting this content since at least 2017."
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