Doctor at a New York City hospital has a long history of anti-Semitic incitement to violence on social media.
By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel
For the past two years New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital has been trying to fire a doctor with a history of posting anti-Semitic and violently anti-Israel messages on social media.
Next week, the hospital and Dr. Walid Khass will be back in court to address the doctor’s eight-year history of tweets denigrating Jews and calling for Israel’s destruction.
Before Khass was hired as a resident at the hospital, his reputation for virulently anti-Israel social media activity was known.
As far back as 2012, Khass tweeted “My beloved Palestine! Spit on you, Jew dogs!” His tweets continued as a medical student until his graduation from St. George’s University (SGU) School of Medicine in June 2019, reported Canary Mission, a watchdog organization that tracks anti-Semitism on campuses.
Canary Mission noted that while Khass focuses his hatred on Jews he also despises Christians.
On August 1, 2014, Khass tweeted: “quran chapter 2 take not the christians and the jews for friends — I’m Muslim And Know This.”
On November 13, 2014, Khass tweeted: “Go Beat Up A Zionist, You’re Not You When You Don’t Beat Up A Zionist.”
His tweets are also racist including one on July 10, 2015, in which he said: “Israel Needs To Stop Payin Ethiopians To Pretend That They’re Jewish Just So They Can Have A Bigger Population.”
On February 9, 2017, Khass tweeted: “Trump Trust Me, The Only People Ruining Our Country Is The Zionist Israeli’s …. #FreePalestine.”
The Canary Mission website lists at least 57 tweets by Khass that call for violence, spread anti-Semitism, support the Hamas terror group, and spread hatred of Israel and calls for its destruction.
The hospital discovered his social media rants and last year tried to fire Khass from his position as a pediatric resident, however, Khass took them to court and won his job back claiming the hospital wrongly fired him for violating his “freedom of speech.”
New York-Presbyterian appealed and the case is due to be heard next week in court. The hospital says that Khass cannot remain on the job at the facility because his posts either praised or encouraged violence.
“These posts would cause serious and extreme hardship on the [residency] program because it would interfere with the program’s ability to serve a patient population consisting of a large number of Orthodox Jews,” the hospital said in one of the documents filed with the court.