“These posts were made years before I was accepted into medical school, when I was a naïve, and impressionable girl barely out of high school. I matured into a young adult during the years I attended college and medical school, and adopted strong values of inclusion, tolerance, and humanity. I take my profession and the Hippocratic Oath seriously and would never intentionally cause harm to any patient seeking medical care. As a physician, I will always strive to give the best medical treatment to all people, regardless of their race, religion, ethnicity, or culture.”
Actually, Lara, those posts were not “made years before” you went to medical school. They went on for six years, including all the years you were in medical school. Have you forgotten? Indeed, they became steadily more vehement during your time in medical school and after graduating. You say you “take..the Hippocratic Oath seriously and would never intentionally cause harm to any patent seeking medical care,” but your remark about “giving yahoods” the “wrong meds” is as clear a contradiction of that Oath as can be found. Why was it that you had this sudden revelation as to your “real views” — the ones that completely contradict everything you have been saying about Jews and Israel from 2011 to 2017 — only when you were found out? Remember how you first solemnly denied having written them, then when confronted with so much incontrovertible evidence, finally admitted you had, and as a result you were then fired from your job at the Cleveland Clinic?
“I have learned from this experience and am sorry for the pain I have caused. I pray that the Jewish community will understand and forgive me. I hope to make amends so that we can move forward and work together towards a better future for us all.”
Nonsense. I don’t think she’s sorry “for the pain” she “caused.” She’s sorry for the pain that she herself has been caused, by having been found out. What she “learned from the experience” is to watch what you tweet, for all kinds of people may be listening. She learned that, as a doctor, it is inadvisable to make threats to murder your patients. Believe it or not, it could get you in trouble.
Here’s one conceivable way “forward” for Lara Kollab:
Over a period of six years, I wrote many dozens of vile antisemitic tweets, the worst of which was one in which I, a doctor, essentially threatened to kill Jews by prescribing the wrong medications for them. I am a “Palestinian” Arab who every summer would return to the Arab-run parts of Palestine, where I easily picked up the antisemitic attitudes of my extended family and friends, whose extreme view of the Arab-Israeli conflict led many of them — and led me, too — to hate Jews irrationally, even hysterically, as the sole cause of every misfortune. We blamed “the Jews” for everything. The vast corruption of our leaders, the lack of human rights under the Palestinian Authority, the greedy lords of misrule like Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Meshaal, the tactics of terror the “Palestinians” so willingly employed and praised, the antisemitism that was in the very air I breathed — none of this seemed to matter, made no impression on me. These were the views that festered within, and that kept me from any rational analysis of the situation, prevented me from understanding, in the slightest, the Israeli view of things. I was consumed with victimhood and with hate. And that is what led to those intolerable tweets. I meant them. They expressed what I felt. I first said that these tweets were written “some years ago,” but in truth I continued to write such tweets until 2017, when I finally stopped. And though I mentioned “several” tweets there were, in fact, several dozen.
I am attempting to explain, not to justify, my behavior. It has been intolerable, and I do not think I should be exempt from punishment. I have quite understandably been discharged from my job at the Cleveland Clinic, and I do not intend to try to continue work in the medical field in this country for at least five years. Rather, I will spend that time working as a volunteer — even as a nurse if my medical license is revoked — with medical groups overseas, almost certainly in Latin America or sub-Saharan Africa, but not in the Muslim Middle East. That should give me enough time to learn more, as I sort out my thoughts on what I did, and why I did it. I am convinced that in that time, I will become more understanding of those I had regarded, quite irrationally, as my mortal enemies. I have already acquired a long list of books on the Arab-Israeli conflict, including some that treat of Islamic history and the Jihad, that I intend to read during these next few years abroad. I would like to thank those people, not all of them Jewish, who sent me messages, not just to condemn what I wrote, but also to suggest the possibility that real change was possible, that even I might benefit from study of the conflict. And so I remain both horrified at what I have done in the past, and hopeful about the future.
Emilie Green says
“I matured into a young adult during the years I attended college and medical school, and adopted strong values of inclusion, tolerance, and humanity.”
You renounced Islam, then? Because none of those things are tolerated in Islam when it comes to the kafir, especially Jews. Where’s the evidence of this public renunciation of Islam?
“As a physician, I will always strive to give the best medical treatment to all people, regardless of their race, religion, ethnicity, or culture.”
Again, none of that is allowed by the best of peoples, viz., you Muslims, towards the vile creatures, viz/, the rest of us.
J D S says
The only way she would or could be exonerated is for her to denounce Islam for what it is…WHAT IS ISLAM????
I don’t have enough time left in my life to explain the wrongness in Islam …but will say this…All the things in Islam that are against the law of the land ARE NOT ILLEGAL in Islam and that should be enough to tell the world that there is something wrong with a so called religion that is against the very lifeline of a free world.
Terry Gain says
It seems that being truthful is not one of her values. Another young mind warped by an evil ideology. What on earth is Islam’s appeal for a woman?
Mort Friedland says
LOUISE FARRA COHEN SAY:
Right on the mark::
Lara Kollab was “once young and foolish” and now she is more mature and stupid.!!!
Rarely says
Once the cat is out of the bag it can’t be put back. A leopard never changes its spots. She has lost trust big time and no amount of apologizing can put the genie back in the bottle. There is no end to the silly sayings that apply to her.
She will have to be isolated from treating or diagnosing patients permanently and may end up practicing FGM to put food on the table. But, of course, it won’t happen. She will be “forgiven” with the foolish idea that she has learnt her lesson and will be under constant scrutiny anyway.
People similarly inclined will simply keep their opinions to themselves and act as they wish. Suspicion, very unfairly, may be cast over the entire community of muslim care providers
It’s all very sad.
eduardo odraude says
Mr. Fitzgerald did not spell this out, but the letter at the end of his post, with the Lara Kollab confession, was not something Lara Kollab actually wrote. It’s the kind of thing Mr. Fitzgerald is proposing she should write.
Daniel R says
You’re right. The apology is the author’s and not of this disgusting muslima who cannot conceal the hatred indoctrinated to her by centuries of islamic brain washing. It’s hard to beleive any muslim would write or even think such apology. Their supremacism doesn’t allow them to denigrate themselves to such extent.
Her apology, if any, would just be an act of taqiyya, deception, lying to the foolish infidels who would stupidly believe that she really repents, while in reality she’s just saying out of her mouth what the naive infidels want to hear while she still holds her strong antisemitic, hateful, biased and bigotted opinions.
I hope this piece of filth cannot get any job in the US, not as a doctor, not as a nurse, not as any practice in the medical environment. Even as a dish-washer she is dangerous, for one cannot tell if she’d poison the dishes she’s washing in order to get some Jews killed by poisoning.
shortfattexan says
Yes. I was very surprised to read the post at the end, until I eventually realized it was Mr. Fitzgerald’s writing, not Ms. Kollab’s.
The thing about words, as every parent tries to explain to their children, is that they can never be taken back.
So even if Ms. Kollab were to say something like Mr. Fitzgerald suggests, many people (very definitely including me) would have a hard time believing that she actually meant it.
TKF says
Sorry my dear little Muslima, but your Jew hating ass has been exposed and cannot be recovered by this blatantly bogus mea-culpa. That boat has sailed. My advice, go back to Palestine and dwell amongst people who agree with you %100.
Holiday on Asylum says
Again-THey can make Holidays every year but claim Asylum in Western Countries…
I also read some time ago that many palestinians Villages or Citys are EMPTY,they all live in theWest and builded only houses because they dont want that jews build a houses there.
thebigW says
Hugh Fitzgerald’s fantasy apology for this Muslima is absurd because a no Muslim would ever say that and mean it, and b, even if they did say it, we should already decide beforehand that they would be LYING.
mortimer says
Such hate-filled remarks are passed over by the mainstream media. WOULD THEY TRUST A DOCTOR WITH SUCH ATTITUDES? Would you send your children to someone like this?
Wellington says
Just serving as one more reason why I do not want to go to ANY Muslim doctor in America—and I’m not even Jewish but Muslims are consumed by hatred for Jews and “all others.” Sura 3:110 v. Sura 98: 6 comes to mind here as partial evidence—and so much else comes to mind where Mo’s sick creed is concerned. But I’m so effing sick and tired of all of Islam that I’m often sick and tired of pointing out just how wretched Mohammedanism really is. (N.B., it really is.)
Right now I’m going to have my favorite sandwich, a BLT, accompanied by a beer.
Up yours, Lara. Up yours, Islamic world.
gravenimage says
Hugh Fitzgerald: Lara Kollab Says She Was “Young and Foolish” A Few Times, And So Very Long Ago (Part Two)
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There was a time when I was young and foolish, too–oddly, none of that *ever* involved saying that I would harm the very people I had vowed to help. This is true for all decent people, no matter how young or foolish they may have been at one time.
Besides, how young was she when she was in *medical school*? Certainly not a kid.
Don says
her medical license should revoked
people need to start filing complaints against her
Northern Virginiastan says
Ever notice that these women have beautiful faces? It goes to show you that beauty is skin deep but ugly cuts to the bone.
Dano says
No, I haven’t noticed that. What I do notice is that muslims tend to be an ugly race. It may be due to their ugly beliefs, but more likely is due to their high rate of inbreeding. I live in a muslim area and see many of them, and I must say I don’t find any of them beautiful or even slightly attractive.
gravenimage says
Muslims are not a race.
But ugly beliefs do tend to lead to ugly expressions, which often render even otherwise attractive people to look ugly.
Wamps says
One word: Taqiyya