Defense Department deputy press secretary Kingsley Wilson is under fire online over a post she wrote on X last year.

Watchdogs against antisemitism are on high alert after a year that saw many antisemitic protests and online posts go unpunished. As a result, the Trump administration has increased its efforts to combat discrimination with an executive order. However, the administration’s recent hire is now facing allegations of antisemitism herself.

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Wilson’s post was a response to the Anti-Defamation League commemorating the anniversary of Leo Frank’s lynching. The ADL summarized his life story in Georgia as a man who was “falsely accused & unjustly convicted of murder in a trial marred by antisemitism. ADL fought to clear Frank’s name & he was finally pardoned in 1986.”

“Leo Frank raped & murdered a 13-year-old girl. He also tried to frame a Black man for his crime,” Wilson wrote. “The ADL turned off the comments because they want to gaslight you.”

Many users banded together to call for her firing over the post. Others called her an antisemite for rebutting Frank’s story.

“Anyone who posts antisemitic conspiracy theories lifted right out of the neo-Nazi playbook should not be in public office,” the American Jewish Committee wrote on X Thursday. “Kingsley Wilson, newly appointed @DepPressSecDOD, is clearly unfit for her role.”

“Why did President Trump appoint Kingsley Wilson deputy press secretary at the Pentagon?” the nongovernmental organization Democratic Majority for Israel wrote. “She is a regular purveyor of anti-Israelism, antisemitism and far right conspiracy theories. She backed the lynching of Leo Frank and days after 10/7 urged America not to “get involved in foreign ethnic conflicts.”

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) called for Wilson’s firing for a different post, in which Wilson wrote, “Make Kosovo Serbia again.”

“Kingsley Wilson, the Deputy Press Secretary for the Department of Defense, is shamefully attempting to delegitimize Kosovo, which has been the single greatest American ally in the Western Balkans,” Torres wrote. “No amount of historical revisionism can change the fundamental fact that Kosovo is and will always be an independent democracy.”

The Washington Examiner contacted the White House and the Pentagon for comment.

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This comes after the Health and Human Services Department, Education Department, and General Services Administration began determining whether universities violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by allowing campus protests to escalate to antisemitism. The first act of the multiagency task force will be to investigate Columbia University.

President Donald Trump has said that any universities that allow for further “illegal protests” could stand to lose their federal funding.