The law firm Davis Polk has rescinded offers to three students at Columbia and Harvard.
Two of the students are pulling the "we didn't read what we were signing but also we do totally excellent lawyerings" card. Davis Polk, unfortunately, says it may re-offer jobs to these obvious Legal Titans.
Davis Polk, one of the country's most prestigious law firms, recently rescinded employment offers made to three students who the firm believed led organizations at Harvard and Columbia that issued statements blaming Israel for the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas that left more than 1,400 Israelis dead.
On Tuesday, the firm said it was reconsidering that decision for two of the three students, who fought their dismissals and said that they did not authorize the letters, which did not have any individual signatories. The potential reversal highlights the complexities -- for both employers and employees -- of navigating what has quickly become one of the most emotionally divisive issues in recent decades.
The New York law firm said two of the students held leadership roles in groups that signed a letter at Columbia and one was affiliated with the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups, which jointly wrote a letter that held the "Israeli regime" responsible for the deadly violence.
The firm did not identify the students or which two of the offers it was reconsidering.
A doctor celebrated the death of Israeli children, which I think is against general medical imperatives.
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BREAKING REPORT: Doctor in NYC fired after CELEBRATING the Ham-s massacre of at least 260 Israelis at the Nova music festival near Gaza.
The Lenox Hill Hospital doctor claimed they were 'getting a taste of their own medicine.'
Dr. Dana Diab, an emergency room physician at Lenox Hill Hospital, drew widespread backlash after posting an Instagram video celebrating the Gaza music festival attack that resulted in the deaths of 260 people on October 7. Her caption praised the violence, stating: "Zionist settlers getting a taste of their own medicine." The offensive posts gained notoriety after being shared by Stop Antisemitism, a U.S. non-profit organization, which issued a warning: "Jewish patients beware."
Following these revelations, Diab's employer, Northwell Health, took swift action and announced via X (formerly Twitter) that she had been terminated. Northwell Health expressed its commitment to its core values and stated, "We've been alerted to discriminatory comments that appear to have been posted by a team member regarding the crisis in the Middle East. These views don't represent Lenox Hill Hospital & Northwell Health & go against our core values. We are investigating & taking immediate action."
The statement further expressed deep regret for the hurt and offense caused by the comments and emphasized that the views expressed by Diab do not align with the values of Lenox Hill Hospital and Northwell Health. As a result, Dr. Dana Diab is no longer employed with Northwell.
Finally, two men were spotted in Miami ripping down posters showing the faces of kidnapped children in Israel. They were allegedly ID'd.
51 former intelligence officers have signed a letter stating that the two men "have all the hallmarks of being gayer than a Bruce Villanche pool party."
I'm not saying they're gay. I'm just saying that I imagine they can sing I Will Survive at Gay Karaoke night without bothering to look at the lyrics on the teleprompter.
Reportedly, people contacted the dental firm that the totally-not-gay terrorist dentist worked at, and they fired his spacious, accommodating ass:
MSNBC's Islamic terrorist sympathizer Mehdi Hassan is now crying about all this "cancel culture," even though he has previously supported "consequences" for people's speech and was so girlislhly enthusiastic about it he deployed multiple exclamation points in support.