The former head of DEI at GQ publisher Condé Nast resigned from his position in June after being accused of anti-Semitism by an employee.

Jewish employees expressed concern that DEI career manager Yashika Olden was not taking seriously their concerns about the organization’s coverage of Hamas’ October 7 terrorist attack. . According to To semaphor.

Employees argued they needed their own employee resource group, a type of internal advocacy group established by other minority groups at Condé Nast. According to the paper, Jewish employees called for the formation of a resource group after seeing some of the company’s employees participating in a pro-Palestinian parade.

The employees eventually filed a formal complaint accusing Mr. Alden of anti-Semitism.

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The process clearly made Alden’s DEI department and Human Resources department uncomfortable. The awkwardness continued until Mr. Alden resigned in June, the paper said.

Tensions had already begun to arise among employees after Condé Nast’s chief human resources officer, Stan Duncan, sent a “vague” email after the Oct. 7 attack, employees said in the memo. According to To the New York Post.

“People are angry because it was a terrorist attack, but Stan’s memo is, ‘Oh, both sides are hurt,'” the Nast insider said. [‘in an email’ since the Post]according to the Post.

This response prompted CEO Roger Lynch to send out a second, more comprehensive email.

“I want to make it clear that as a company we condemn Hamas’ attacks on Israel and all acts of terrorism,” Lynch wrote, according to the newspaper.

This high-profile internal turmoil over the conflict between Israel and Hamas is the latest in a growing trend at traditional media companies.

In October, CBS This Morning co-host Tony Dokunpil pressured pro-Palestinian author Ta-Nehisi Coates for removing context from a chapter of her new book about the conflict. News became the center of internal conflict. (Related: CBS official questions Israel’s right to exist amid tearful battle: report)

Dokunpil’s superiors publicly reprimanded him and denied that the interview had “no substance.”[met] Editorial standards for fairness. But others at the company, including CBS’ parent company’s largest shareholder and chief legal correspondent Jan Crawford, disagreed and defended Dokunpil.

In another high-profile newsroom altercation, a Washington Post staffer said: almost rebelled Publisher Will Lewis has selected three white men to fill the leadership position vacated by Sally Buzbee, the paper’s first female editor-in-chief.

The Daily Caller reached out to Alden and Condé Nast but did not receive a response in time for publication.