WASHINGTON, July 13, 2013 (WAFA) - The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) Friday criticized Yahoo Sports for printing what it said were “slanderous attacks” on Oday Aboushi, an Arab American member of the American National Football League’s (NFL) team, the New York Jets.

ADC said in a letter to Yahoo Sports that an article entitled “Could Oday Aboushi Jeopardize His NFL Career with Anti-Israel Activism” and written by Adam Waksman was “biased and derives its information from an extremely anti-Arab anti-Muslim source: FrontPage Magazine.”

It said that the articles “goes beyond attacking only Oday Aboushi; it is an attack on the entire Arab and Muslim American community.”

Additionally, the ADC wrote the Major League Baseball (MLB) also criticizing anti-Arab bias by its newly appointed media coordinator Jonathan Mael.

It said Mael tweeted from his official account that “The @nyjets are a disgrace of an organization. The Patriots have Aaron Hernandez, the Jets have Oday Aboushi.”

ADC pointed out in the letter that it is inappropriate to compare Oday Aboushi to an accused murderer.

Although the tweet and the article have since been removed, the damage that they caused has not been undone, said ADC.

It called on both Yahoo! Sports and MLB to immediately terminate Jonathan Mael and Adam Waksman and issue an official apology to the Arab American community.

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