CAN EMPLOYERS REFUSE TO HIRE HAMAS SUPPPORTERS?

WHEN BEING PRO-TERRORIST COSTS YOU A JOB

Anti-Israel Hamas supporters find job offers revoked & winding up on “do not hire list.”

Pro-Hamas rally at Harvard. Courtesy Harvard Crimson.

Throughout America, Jewish students face threats, intimidation and violence on campus from supporters of the Hamas terrorist group. Several employers have revoked job offers, especially law firms, and others are vowing never to hire such antisemites.

A Canadian businessman wrote an article in the Financial Times about how he reached his decision to never hire any such people. The rules and the social issues are almost the same as in the US; there’s no law forcing people to hire Hamas supporters or anyone else whose political views they despise. (The article may be read by clicking on the link at he end of this post.)

Under American law, it is entirely lawful for a purely private business to discriminate in employment based on political or other thought that conflicts with the business’s…