A recent law school graduate sued a law firm Wednesday, alleging that they rescinded her job offer over her views on the Israel-Gaza war.
Jinan Chehade was hired at Foley & Lardner in July but was told the night before her first day in October that the firm was revoking the job offer over statements she made on social media and during a speech at Chicago’s City Hall, her lawsuit says.
The suit alleges that Foley discriminated against Chehade, 26, because of her Arab Muslim background and describes an hours-long “interrogation” with two partners at the firm over her Instagram posts, the contents of a speech in support of the Palestinian territories and her father’s position at a local mosque.
“They called me 13 hours before I was meant to be at work and said my actions don’t fit with the values of the firm,” Chehade told The Washington Post, “and that me being in the firm may make others uncomfortable.”
Workers from a host of fields have been ousted from or left their positions since Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault that killed an estimated 1,200 in Israel and led to an Israeli bombardment that has killed at least 36,000 and injured almost 82,000 people in Gaza. Those facing professional backlash over their views on the war have ranged from a man set to play Santa Claus to an editor of Vogue magazine. Law students with job offers in hand were some of the first to face backlash, The Post reported in October.
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