NYU law student has job offer withdrawn after posting anti-Israel message
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A New York University law student has had a job offer rescinded by a top law firm and was voted out as president of the school's Student Bar Association after stating that Israel is to blame for the Hamas attacks that have killed more than 1,000 Israelis.
"Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life," wrote Ryna Workman in the Student Bar Association newsletter.
The message drew swift rebukes from members of New York University's community, as well as from Winston & Strawn, a law firm where Workman had previously been employed as an intern. Winston & Strawn said in a a statement on Tuesday that it had learned of "certain inflammatory comments" regarding Hamas' attack on Israel that was distributed to the NYU Student Bar Association, although the firm didn't refer to Workman by name.
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