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WAS PROMOTING HAMAS LIES WORTH A CAREER? SOMETIMES DETERRENCE WORKS
Losing a job offer & student bar association presidency may seem harsh for speaking one’s mind, but if the speech is false, racist, and alienates decent people, that’s the natural result.
DEC 5, 2023
Pro-Hamas demonstrators in America. Though a noisy minority, they have no influence in the debate and are not taken seriously by anyone other than their fellow antisemitic haters. They now face loss of employment and other obstacles, because, quite frankly, decent people don’t want anything to do with them. (Courtesy Getty Images.)
Was promoting Hamas lies worth a career?
Ryna, Workman, before her ouster as NYU Student Bar Association President. Winston & Strawn, the highly-regarded corporate firm where she was to start working upon graduation., revoked the offer in disgust. (Image courtesy of Forward.)
Due to her false pro-Hamas and anti-Israel statements, Ryna Workman lost her lucrative job offer and her position as NYU Law School Bar President (by vote of the students, though I’m sure she blames the Zionist Lobby that controls everything.)
