{"id":139275,"date":"2023-12-20T00:18:34","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T05:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=139275"},"modified":"2023-12-19T14:33:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T19:33:00","slug":"antisemitic-activism-hurting-job-prospects-as-academics-doctors-kicked-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/antisemitic-activism-hurting-job-prospects-as-academics-doctors-kicked-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Antisemitic activism hurting job prospects as academics, doctors kicked out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of law firms warn aspiring lawyers: \u2018Zero tolerance\u2019<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Academics, doctors, lawyers and others are losing their jobs \u2013 and more could find themselves struggling to get hired \u2013 due to antisemitic activism.<\/p>\n

Since the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, many U.S. employers have grown increasingly wary about prejudice and hatred toward Jews. Some have issued warnings, and others have fired employees for making antisemitic remarks online.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt only makes sense that displaying hatred or animus towards any minority will impact job prospects, because people want a hate-free environment,\u201d Rabbi Yaakov Menken, managing director of the Coalition for Jewish Values, told The College Fix<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In the realm of higher education, several Ivy League leaders have resigned<\/a> after being criticized for not doing enough to stop antisemitism, most notably Liz Magill, the former president of the University of Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n

Professors at Oberlin College<\/a> and the University of Arizona<\/a> also have been suspended or placed on administrative leave after commenting in support of Hamas, The College Fix<\/em> and New York Post<\/em> reported. And another at Wake Forest University<\/a> resigned after a now-deleted pro-Hamas social media post.<\/p>\n

Some employers are taking preemptive action.<\/p>\n

Since October, more than 200 law firms have signed onto a letter<\/a> to top law schools warning students that their firms have \u201czero tolerance\u201d for antisemitism, according to information provided to The Fix<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs employers who recruit from each of your law schools, we look to you to ensure your students who hope to join our firms after graduation are prepared to be an active part of workplace communities that have zero tolerance policies for any form of discrimination or harassment, much less the kind that has been taking place on some law school campuses,\u201d the letter states.<\/p>\n

The law firm Sullivan & Cromwell, whose Senior Chair Joe Shenker initiated the letter, declined to comment, but a spokesperson directed The Fix<\/em> to an updated version of the letter, which now lists about 250 law firms.<\/p>\n

In the letter, the law firms said antisemitic activities \u2013 including campus protests \u201ccalling for the death of Jews and the elimination of the State of Israel\u201d \u2013 will not be tolerated in their workplaces.<\/p>\n

While most universities have not commented publicly on the letter, Jim Rosenblatt, dean emeritus of Mississippi College School of Law, told<\/a> The American Lawyer<\/em> that they \u201cwill pay attention to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rosenblatt said he does not think law firms will stop hiring students from those schools, but they may start questioning new lawyers more about their activism in college.<\/p>\n

Already, a New York University law student reportedly had a job offer revoked due to a comment blaming Israel for the Hamas terrorist attack, CBS News<\/em> reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Individuals in the medical profession also have lost jobs.<\/p>\n

Several doctors, including individuals from NYU Langone Health and Emory University’s Winship Cancer Institute, are no longer employed there after the watchdog group Stop Antisemitism called out their support for Hamas on X, Newsweek<\/em> reported<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n

“It’s startling how many doctors out there are unabashedly supporting Hamas,” StopAntisemitism told Newsweek<\/em> at the time. “This makes a mockery of the Hippocratic Oath, which is not compatible with supporting terror groups.”<\/p>\n

StopAntisemitism did not respond to several requests from The Fix<\/em> this week asking if it is aware of other cases since then.<\/p>\n

Whether the doctors were fired because of antisemitic comments is not clear. But others have been, including a California doctor who lost his job in October for making “disturbing, anti-Semitic comments” on social media, his former employer Expert MRI wrote<\/a> on Facebook.<\/p>\n

A Miami dentist also lost his job after videos showed him removing posters of Israelis kidnapped by Hamas, and Citigroup bank and the Illinois State Comptroller’s Office fired employees in October after they posted antisemitic comments on social media, according to CBS News<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Menken told The Fix<\/em> that individuals should expect consequences for expressing hatred.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is now abundantly clear that the false narrative around Palestine is merely a pretense with which to dredge up classically hateful tropes about Jews and Jewish property. It’s a narrative of myths and demonization, and consequences are only to be expected,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

MORE: Professor resigns after post sympathizing with Hamas massacre draws controversy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

IMAGE: Khairul Effendi\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

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