A New York City emergency room doctor has been fired for controversial posts online that applauded the Hamas’ massacre at a music festival in southern Israel, saying the attacks gave Israelis “a taste of their own medicine.”
Dr. Dana Diab – an emergency room physician with Lenox Hill Hospital and Brookdale University Hospital & Medical Center, according to NYC Health + Hospitals – shared a video of the heinous Oct. 7 attack on her Instagram Stories.
“Zionist settlers getting a taste of their own medicine,” she wrote, according to a screenshot shared by Stop Antisemitism on X, formerly known as Twitter, on Monday.
A second snap showed Diab’s Instagram profile, which as has since gone private – where the physician boasted over 600 followers and had a Palestinian flag emoji in the bio section.
“Dina [sic] Diab took to Instagram rejoicing Zionist settlers [aka jews] were murdered, raped, beheaded, and kidnapped by the Hamas terror group on Saturday October 7th,” Stop Antisemitism wrote alongside the images.
“Jewish patients beware.”
Northwell Health confirmed Tuesday morning that Diab no longer worked for the hospital system.
“We are deeply sorry for the hurt and offense these comments have caused,” Northwell wrote on X.
“These views do not represent Lenox Hill Hospital and Northwell Health and go against our core values. The team member is no longer employed with Northwell.”
“Well I should hope so. Many Jewish folks are pretty scared to come to this hospital,” one X user replied to the announcement.
“Her public praise of Hamas’s crimes against humanity disqualifies Diab from treating Jewish patients or any patients for that matter,” activist Chaskel Bennett added.
“A code of professional conduct was violated here. Hate has a price.”
New York City Health + Hospitals, which runs Brookdale University Hospitals, did not immediately respond to The Post’s inquiry about Diab’s future with the network.
When reached by The Post Tuesday morning, Diab insisted that she “never called for harm to anyone” in her post.
“I never have and never will abdicate my duty and my oath as a physician,” she added.
Diab’s termination is the latest in a deluge of public outcry over apparent public support for Hamas after the terrorist organization broke through Israel’s southern border barrier and unleashed a surprise attack on both military and civilians on Oct. 7.
The massacre unleashed an all-out war with Israel, resulting in about 1,400 and over 2,800 Israeli and Palestinian deaths, respectively.
Tensions grew at the end of last week as the Israel Defense Forces prepared to launch the next leg of its retaliatory assault – while the majority of Gaza residents remained unable to safely flee their homes.
On Monday, the high-profile Wexner Foundation severed ties with Harvard University over the latter’s failure to condemn a statement signed by over 30 student groups that held Israel’s settlement policies “entirely responsible” for Hamas’ attack.
“We are stunned and sickened by the dismal failure of Harvard’s leadership to take a clear and unequivocal stance against the barbaric murders of innocent Israeli civilians,” the foundation’s statement read.
The conflict between Israel and Palestinians dates back to 1947, when the UN called for the partition of British-controlled Palestine into one Arab and one Jewish state.
One year later, in 1948, Israel declared its independence – sparking the first Arab-Israeli war.
Over the last week, Palestinian communities have struggled to be heard amid the hateful cacophony of Hamas – the terrorist group that governs Gaza.
At a protest in Long Island, for example, hundreds of protestors called for Palestinians’ “dignity” to be respected amid the IDF’s aerial bombardment of Gaza City and surrounding areas.
“We don’t hate Israelis,” Ayman Helo, a 52-year-old Sea Cliff resident who was born in the West Bank, told The Post.
“We don’t hate Jews. I’ve lived in Tel Aviv, I speak Hebrew. I have friends in Israel.”
Diab obtained a medical degree from Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar in 2016, according to her online professional profile.
She did an internship in internal medicine at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland before completing her emergency medicine residency at Brookdale in 2020.