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COLUMBUS — An Ohio doctor has been permanently stripped of her license to practice medicine after threatening to give Jewish patients the “wrong medications.”
The Ohio State Medical Board revoked the medical license of Lara Kollab, a Muslim medical resident, after it was discovered she had been posting anti-Semitic statements on social media for at least six years. In 2019, Kollab was terminated from her position at the Cleveland Clinic after the revelation.
(Photo courtesy of Canary Mission/ Facebook)
The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) filed a formal complaint with the Ohio State Board of Medical Examiners, explaining the Muslim woman’s statements “and intentions go far beyond the realms of free speech. Allowing her near any patients could literally jeopardize lives.”
ACLJ Chief Counsel Jay Sekulow called her behavior abhorrent and dangerous.
“The issue is: should a doctor who makes threats about giving Jews the wrong medication with the intent to cause harm be entitled to practice medicine? The answer is no. The medical license should be permanently revoked. Threats to cause harm must never be tolerated in any setting – including the medical field.”
“The issue is: should a doctor who makes threats about giving Jews the wrong medication with the intent to cause harm be entitled to practice medicine? The answer is no. The medical license should be permanently revoked. Threats to cause harm must never be tolerated in any setting – including the medical field.”
Jay Sekulow, aCLJ Chief Counsel
The investigation into her activities found she “violated rules of conduct by failing to exhibit good moral character and ‘making a false, fraudulent, deceptive, or misleading statement in relation to the practice of medicine.”
Her social media rants were documented by Canary Mission, an anti-hate watchdog that exposes anti-Semitism. Some of her remarks, according to Canary’s translation, include the following:
“Hahha ewww.. I’ll purposely give all the [Jews] the wrong meds.”
“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.”
“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. I blame Israel for everything. everything that goes wrong, I say [Allah will kill the Jews].”
“Jewish settlers in Palestine are the descendants of the Nazis.”
View the CBS News video below reporting Lara Kollab’s termination.
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