Shakil Butt is a human resources consultant in England who calls himself "HR Hero For Hire."
He is quoted as an expert in HR Magazine in an article on how companies should deal with exploding antisemitism in the workplace.
The article starts off strong:
Researchers for the inclusion consultancy Pearn Kandola found in 2024 that incidents of antisemitism had increased by 50% since the events of 7 October 2023, and that many Jews felt unsafe at work.“There were examples of people being stereotyped, but also of verbal as well as physical abuse occurring,” says Pearn Kandola’s senior partner, Binna Kandola. “[Recent violence] has escalated precisely because not enough action was taken back then.” Kandola found a marked difference from the response to George Floyd’s murder in 2020, when many organisations reached out to support their black staff, and the lack of any such action towards Jewish employees.
It then goes on to quote from a variety of HR consultants, including Butt:
“Employers need to understand the difference between Zionism and Judaism,” says Shakil Butt, CEO of consultancy HR Hero for Hire, “one being a political ideology and the other being a faith practice. Part of the issue has been the conflation of the two”, he argues. “Similarly, extremist acts carried out in the name of the Islamic faith should be regarded as horrendous criminal acts separate from the Muslim community,” he adds.Butt advises employers not to police discussions by closing them down. Instead, allow views to be aired respectfully, by reminding staff of organisational values and by referring them to codes of conduct around professionalism, courtesy and kindness.
So Butt is defining what Judaism is - and telling HR departments that Zionism, the insistence that Jews have the right to self-determination, belongs in the same analytical category as terrorism.
To the HR audience, this all sounds like a reasonable framework. But to Jewish employees, this sets off alarm bells. Butt is telling HR departments what is and is not acceptable political opinion in the workplace — and that Zionism belongs in the same analytical category as terrorism. This advice could end the careers of most Jewish employees if HR departments absorbs that framework.
Sure enough, while Butt's X account has not been updated in a couple of years, it was filled with vicious antizionist rhetoric - including retweeting a speech by a British journalist and political adviser himself who makes up a ridiculous definition of antisemitism:
After the Holocaust, an anti-Semitic European phenomenon, the Jews went to the only haven they knew. They came to Muslim lands in Palestine and unfurled the banner: Please don't do to us what the Europeans did to us. Do not let them change history.The anti-Semites are the ones supporting genocide. The anti-Semites are the ones who are supporting the massacre of the Semites, for whom the Palestinians belong. I, as a Semite, make it absolutely clear: the aim of the Palestinians is justice. It's to return home. The Palestinians are not the ones who fought for genocide. They fought for coexistence.But this rabid Zionist project wants to eradicate Palestine. You saw Netanyahu in the United Nations holding up the map that erased Palestine, but Palestine lives in your heart and it runs from your heart and the Zionist project is on its last legs.Free, free Palestine from the river to the sea. Palestine will be free.
The person who endorses this hate advises companies on how to deal with antisemitism in the workplace. And he managed to sneak his hate towards most Jews into an article meant to advise employers how to combat antisemitism.
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