A first-year medical resident at a prominent residency program in Ohio was dismissed from her the program after it was revealed that she had posted virulently anti-Semitic tweets threatening medical malpractice against people of Jewish origin.
Lara Kollab was fired from a medical residency at the world-renowned Cleveland Clinic after an investigation into her social media accounts revealed shockingly anti-Semitic tweets, including several messages that encouraged death against Jews.
“May Allah take back (end the lives) of the Jews so we stop being forced to go to those unclean ones,” Kollab tweeted. She also said “Allah will kill the Jews” and “Allah will take the Jews who exiled us from our country,” in separate tweets.
“Hahha ewww… I’ll purposely give all the yahood [Jews] the wrong meds,” tweeted Kollab back in 2012, which eventually cost her a residency position at the Cleveland Clinic.
If that wasn’t enough, it was also revealed that Kollab compared Jews to dogs in separate tweets, as well as made statements minimizing the effects of the Holocaust.
“Look, Haifa is sweet (nice), but it’s full of Jewish dogs, and it looks like America, meaning, it wasn’t that special to me,” tweeted Kollab. “I don’t mean to sound insensitive but I have a REALLY hard time feeling bad about Holocaust seeing as the people who were in it now kill my people.”
While Kollab’s former tweets indicate deeply rooted levels of anti-Semitism, she was apparently willing to shelve her bigotry in exchange for her medical education. It was further revealed that Kolb attended the Touro College of Medicine in New York City, a school that prides itself on a mission to “educate, perpetuate and enrich the historic Jewish tradition of tolerance and dignity.”
Touro College is appalled by the anti-Semitic comments reportedly made by Lara Kollab, a graduate of the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine. The mission of Touro College is to educate, perpetuate and enrich the historic Jewish tradition of tolerance and dignity.
— Touro College (@WeAreTouro) December 31, 2018
While Kollab did work at the Cleveland Clinic for a number of months, an investigation by the hospital did not report any cases of patient harm caused directly by medical treatment from Kollab during her time there.
“For first-year residents, multiple safeguards and direct supervision are required for patient care and prescribing medicine,” Cleveland Clinic officials said in a statement. “In addition, there have been no reports of any patient harm related to her work during the time she was here.”
[Also read: Cleveland hospital denounces anti-Semitic comments made by former resident]
John Patrick (@john_pat_rick) is a graduate of Canisius College and Georgia Southern University. He interned for Red Alert Politics during the summer of 2012 and has continued to contribute regularly.
