A Cleveland hospital denounced anti-Semitic comments made by a former resident on social media, noting that the employee is no longer working at its medical center.
“This individual was employed as a supervised resident at our hospital from July to September 2018,” the Cleveland Clinic, a nonprofit academic medical center, said in a statement.
“She is no longer working at Cleveland Clinic. In no way do these beliefs reflect those of our organization. We fully embrace diversity, inclusion and a culture of safety and respect across our entire health system.”
The comments made by Lara Kollab were unearthed after the Canary Mission, an organization dedicated to exposing hatred and anti-Semitism, collected a series of anti-Semitic comments she allegedly made on social media starting in 2011.
In one tweet from 2012, she said she would “purposely give all the yahood the wrong meds,” using an Arabic reference for Jews. She also claimed that same year that the Holocaust was “exaggerated and the victimization of the jews (ignoring the others killed) is overdone.”
“I don’t mean to sound insensitive but I have a REALLY hard time feeling bad about Holocaust seeing as the ppl who were in it now kill my ppl,” she tweeted in 2012.
All of Kollab’s social media accounts have since been deactivated, but Kollab has not issued a response regarding the posts.
