Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) in Portland have both dismissed medical professionals in recent weeks after they were found to have made pro-Hamas and anti-Israel remarks on social media, raising concerns about bias and discrimination against Jewish patients in healthcare settings.

At Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan’s East Harlem neighborhood, Dr. Lila Abassi, an assistant professor of medicine, was terminated after hospital officials were made aware of her social media posts allegedly praising Hamas terrorists.

According to the New York Post, Abassi referred to Hamas as “noble resistance and freedom fighters” and wrote “Long Live Hamas & Hezbollah.” She also called the IDF a “plague” and accused Israel of “slaughtering babies.”

Physicians Against Antisemitism, a watchdog group that exposed Abassi’s comments, warned that her rhetoric created a serious ethical concern for Jewish patients.

“No longer will any Jewish patient feel confident that they will receive safe care from that individual, and by extension, at the facility that employs them,” the group stated.

In a separate case, OHSU Hospital in Portland fired nurse Camesha Hart after she made social media posts celebrating the deaths of Israeli soldiers and declaring she would refuse to treat Jewish patients.

Hart posted an image of Israeli soldiers on Instagram with the caption, “May they all meet their ancestors soon!” In an exchange with pro-Israel users, she called them “vermin” and explicitly said she would not provide medical care to them.

“I would refuse to treat you. I don’t take care of animals. Dogs. Rats. Vermin of any kind,” she wrote.

The terminations are the latest in a series of disturbing incidents in the medical field since October 7, 2023, where healthcare professionals have been found to express or act upon anti-Israel and antisemitic biases.

In Australia, two nurses in Sydney are currently standing trial after telling an Israeli in February that they would refuse to treat him and would kill him if he were their patient.

(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)