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A prominent cancer doctor has sued NYU for firing him to appear impartial on the Israel-Palestine conflict..
Benjamin Neel, who led New York University Langone's Perlmutter Cancer Center, has filed a lawsuit against the university for firing him in order to appear impartial on the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflict.k...
According to Benjamin, he was unceremoniously dumped from the institution for his social media posts supporting Israel in the wake of the October 17, Hamas terrorist attack..
In the civil suit filed in New York State Supreme Court, Benjamin, 67, claimed he was fired from his job leading the Perlmutter Cancer Center as the medical centre aimed to appear impartial in how it sanctioned employees who made social media posts related to the conflict..
Another was a repost of a cartoon that showed an image of well-known environmental advocate Greta Thunberg, chasing a man who is holding a butchers knife in one hand and a plastic garbage bag labeled Israeli babies in the other, the suit states..
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