Bank of America employees have organized a number of events to commemorate Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023 massacre, some of which have raised objections from the bank’s Jewish workers.
Shortly before the Rosh Hashanah holiday began on Wednesday evening, the bank’s Arab Executive Advisory Council circulated an internal memo calling for a “moment of silence with each other to remember the tragic loss of life on Oct. 7 and since then.”
According to The New York Post, the bank’s Jewish Executive Advisory Council had “planned their own Oct. 7 gathering to ‘remember the tragic loss of life’ a year ago.”
The report when on to state that, “Indeed, many Jewish employees had no idea that there was a competing commemoration until later in the week since observant Jews refrain from work—including reading emails—during the holidays.”
Some of the employees objected to the language of the internal memo, interpreting “since then” as criticism of Israel’s military response to the massacre, according to the report.
A bank representative told the newspaper only that “there are a number of events organized by employee networks at the bank to commemorate the terrorist attacks in Israel on Oct. 7.”
