Cleveland Clinic fires resident after online threat to give Jews 'wrong meds' surfaces
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A Cleveland hospital has fired a resident after anti-Semitic comments and threats to give the Jewish people “the wrong meds” surfaced on social media.
Lara Kollab was identified as the fired employee behind the comments. She worked as a supervised resident at the Cleveland Clinic from July to September, Cleveland.com reported .
“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 Cleveland Clinic said in a statement posted online.
"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 Cleveland Clinic
Kollab’s anti-Semitic comments were first documented by Canary Mission, a group that examines social media accounts to find anti-Semitic and anti-Israel remarks.
Among the comments were threats to mistreat Jewish patients. “Hahha ewww.. I’ll purposely give all the [Jews] the wrong meds,” she wrote in a 2012 tweet.
In multiple other posts on Twitter, she called for violence against the Jewish people, called them “dogs,” compared them to the Nazis, and minimized 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,” Kollab once wrote, according to the website’s translation.
“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,” she wrote in 2012.
"Hahha ewww.. I’ll purposely give all the [Jews] the wrong meds."
— Lara Kollab in 2012
Since the firing, the woman deleted her social media accounts, though some of them were preserved.
Her LinkedIn page claims she graduated from the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in New York.
Her page said she was a biology tutor to high school and college students shortly after getting her bachelor’s degree from John Carroll University in 2013, while since 2015 she has been a mentor to “1st, 2nd, and 3rd year medical students.”
Kollab has been working with a training certificate issued in July 2018, according to the State Medical Board of Ohio.
Her certificate is valid as long as the individual is actively part of the program which was indicated on the training certificate application by the supervising entity,” Tessie Pollock, the board’s director of communications, told Fox News.
“It is the Mission of the State Medical Board of Ohio to protect the health and safety of all Ohioans. Malicious acts and attitudes toward any population go against the Medical Practices Act and are denounced by the board,” she added.
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Totally sick. And she even went to a Jewish medical school. What's up with that? She probably got the best grant out of them.
One of the good things about social media is that it gives a venue to idiots and hateful people to out themselves to the rest of the world. While the message spread is awful, it's good we know who this person is.
This is true, Larry. Before, people used to feel these things and maybe even act on them and everyone was shocked when it happened, but now we get a heads up. It always amazes me what people will put out there on social media.
This is an open and shut case. She is lucky if there is no criminal offense involved with her threatening to harm medical patients.
I'm certain that the Clinic will investigate any past interactions that she had with Jewish patients.
It appears that she was fired approximately than 90 days ago.
Beyond the obvious, I had to look up the difference between an MD and a DO. Something I never thought of.
Also, I don't know how I would feel about my practitioner looking like a Hooters girl. (I know, I know)
An interesting contrast: Israeli doctors perform free life-saving heart surgery on Arab children and here an Arab medical person threatens to murder Jews.
I’m curious if the social media accounts in question used her actual name or anonymous screen names. The article doesn’t specify. The comments are inexcusable either way, but the article should have reported that bit of information.