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Friday, May 22, 2026

Firm Rescinds Offer of Employment for Law Student who Professed Support for Hamas - National Review

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Chicago-based law firm Winston & Strawn LLP rescinded a law student’s offer of employment, after the student said that Hamas’s slaughter of innocent Israeli children was “necessary.”

As president of New York University’s School of Law Bar Association, Ryna Workman emailed a weekly newsletter to students professing her “unwavering and absolute solidarity with Palestinians in their resistance against oppression toward liberation and self-determination.”

“Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life,” the non-binary, 24-year old NYU student said. “This regime of state-sanctioned violence created the conditions that made resistance necessary. I will not condemn Palestinian resistance.”

Workman joins university students across the country who are boldly professing their support of Hamas, the terrorist group responsible for the most deadly attack against Jews since the Holocaust. Hamas terrorists invaded Israel this weekend, and have so far murdered more than 1,000 Israeli civilians, including women, children, and 14 U.S. citizens.

At Harvard University, 35 student organizations issued a statement blaming “Israeli violence” for Hamas terrorist attacks and called on Harvard to “take action to stop the ongoing annihilation of Palestinians.” Ohio State’s club, Students for Justice in Palestine, called Hamas’s reign of terror a “heroic resistance.” Georgetown University’s club, Jewish Voice for...



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