A Mount Sinai doctor who allegedly denied Hamas atrocities and hailed the terror group as “noble resistance and freedom fighters” has been fired from her teaching gig there, The Post has learned.
Dr. Lila Abassi, an assistant professor of medicine at the Upper East Side hospital, was canned earlier this month after a probe into a series of disturbing online posts, a hospital spokesperson confirmed this week.
In a series of unhinged screeds, Abassi, 46, allegedly wrote “Long Live Hamas & Hezbollah,” labeled the Israeli army a “plague,” accused Israel of “slaughtering babies,” and rejected reports of rape during the Oct. 7, 2023 attack that left 1,200 Israelis dead and thousands injured.
“Please show me actual rape video,” Abassi wrote in a Facebook doctors group, using the pseudonym “Kluver Bucy,” the name for a rare brain disorder that affects memory and behavior and may cause eating disorders, hypersexuality, seizures and dementia.
And she asserted that Israel was responsible for “massacr[ing] more people on 10/7 than [were] killed by Hamas.”
City Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, (R-Brooklyn), who is Jewish, reported Abassi to the hospital last month. The hospital initiated a probe that ultimately resulted in her dismissal, according to a Mt. Sinai spokeswoman.
“Our most basic expectation of doctors is that they will perform their duties in an unbiased manner — especially a doctor serving a city as ethnically and religiously diverse as ours,” Vernikov told The Post.
“How scary is the thought that this woman was entrusted with the lives of Jewish patients while expressing blatant support for the same terrorists that seek to eliminate the Jewish people and destroy America?”
Her flurry of online hate is well-known within physicians’ groups on social media.
“She’s known as one of the more outspoken and egregiously antisemitic physicians in the community,” a fellow Mount Sinai doc told The Post.
In a 2016 “Doctors for Afghanistan” Facebook post, Abassi gushed about the “lack of a filter” at her job at the American Council on Science and Health, which she said she can “appreciate personally.”
“Because I don’t have a filter either,” she added.
Hateful posts erode trust — especially at a hospital.
“No longer will any Jewish patient feel confident that they will receive safe care from that individual, and by extension, at the facility that employs them,” said the founders of the watchdog Physicians Against Antisemitism, which exposed the posts online.
Abassi, who graduated in 2011 from St. George’s University School of Medicine before starting a residency at SUNY Downstate, did not return several requests for comment.
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