The Anti-Defamation League, which is known for defending Jewish civil rights, is being sued by a New York area employee who charges that the league’s promotion practices are discriminatory against non-Jews.

Tonietta Moffett says the non-profit won’t make her an assistant director because she’s “African-American and not Jewish.”

Her Manhattan federal court suit seeks unspecified damages for discrimination “on account of her race, ethnicity and nonmembership in the Jewish ethnicity or faith.”

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