The president of the New York University Law School Bar Association sent an email to say that Hamas’ slaughter of children in Israel is ‘necessary’.
Ryna Workman, 24, a non-binary student at NYU’s School of Law, sent out a weekly newsletter saying that the killing of innocent Israeli children, women and civilians in the past week was Israel’s “full responsibility.”
Workman, of Simpsonville, South Carolina, also refused to condemn Hamas – an internationally recognized terrorist group that sparked the all-out war.
President Biden today called their actions “pure, unadulterated evil.”
In addition to studying at NYU, Ryna completed their undergraduate degree at the University of South Carolina and also studied at the University of Warwick in the UK on an exchange program – where they took classes in international law.
Ryna Workman, 24, a non-binary student at NYU’s School of Law sent out a weekly newsletter saying that the innocent slaughter of Israeli children, women and civilians over the past week is Israel’s “full responsibility.”
Workman, who follows the pronouns of they/them, wrote in a weekly newsletter to fellow students of the Student Ball Association: ‘Hello everyone.
“This week, I want to first of all express my unwavering and absolute solidarity with Palestinians in their resistance to oppression against liberation and self-determination.
“Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life.
‘This regime of state-sanctioned violence created the conditions that made resistance necessary.’
Referring to the violent terrorist group Hamas, which has killed innocent Israeli children, Workman said: ‘I will not condemn Palestinian resistance.’
Workman has been working as a summer associate at Winston & Strawn for two years.
They continued in the email: ‘I condemn the violence of apartheid. I condemn the violence of settler colonialism. I condemn the violence of military occupation. I condemn the violence of expropriation and stolen homes. I condemn the violence of imprisoning thousands in an open-air prison.
‘I condemn the violence of collective punishment. I condemn the violence of phosphorus bombs. I condemn the violence of the US military-industrial complex. I condemn the violence of obscuring genocide as a “complex issue.”
‘I condemn the violence of labeling oppressed people as “animals”. I condemn the violence in the removal of hospital context. I condemn the violence of silence. Palestine will be free.’
The newsletter was signed: ‘Your SBA President, Ryna.’
New York University told DailyMail.com that Workman’s statement “in no way reflects the position of NYU.”
Before joining NYU, they graduated from the University of South Carolina with degrees in history and global studies
John Beckman, spokesman for the university, added: ‘Terrorist acts are immoral. The indiscriminate killing of civilians and hostages, including children and the elderly, is reprehensible. Blaming victims of terrorism for their own deaths is wrong.’
Troy McKenzie, dean of NYU’s School of Law, also said: ‘This message was not from NYU School of Law as an institution and does not speak for the leadership of the Law School.
‘It certainly does not express my own views, because I condemn the killing of civilians and terrorist acts as always reprehensible.’
Before joining NYU, they graduated from the University of South Carolina with degrees in history and global studies.
The student boasted on their social media that they are ’embracing organizing for what is right and pushing for real change in my community.’
Workman said that they: ‘Fight for economic justice, anti-racism and gender equality.’
The student said they want to ‘become someone who breaks down systems to help make the world we live in more just. I hope to continue to be an advocate for minority communities and minority communities.’
Workman boasted that they: ‘Fight for economic justice, anti-racism and gender equality’
Ryna also studied at the University of Warwick in the UK on an exchange program – taking classes in international law at the institution’s prestigious Law School
It comes after students at several Ivy League institutions, including Harvard and Columbia, condemned Israel after the war broke out.
Students at Stanford University also showed their support for Hamas by hanging bed sheets with slogans from their dormitories.
A group of 31 Harvard organizations, including its branch of Amnesty International, placed the blame on Israel for Hamas’ brutal, surprise attack.
The organizations released a letter to the public on Sunday as a ‘Joint Statement by Harvard Palestine Solidarity Groups on the Situation in Palestine’ to condemn Israel in the wake of the violence.
They said Hamas’ attacks, which are still ongoing, ‘did not happen in a vacuum’ and the Israeli government forced Palestinians to live in an open-air prison for more than two decades.’
“We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime fully responsible for all unfolding violence,” the groups wrote.
A Columbia student organization joined the chorus of obfuscation by calling the terrorism a “counter-offensive.”
The Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine said: ‘The weight of responsibility for the war and casualties lies undeniably with the Israeli extremist government and other Western governments,’ said the statement, which was also signed by a group called Jewish Voice for Peace .
The Palestine Solidarity Committee holds banners outside Harvard University
Workman’s statement – just one of many student organizations refusing to condemn Hamas – comes just hours after reports emerged that the terrorists killed at least 40 babies and young children in an attack in a small kibbutz in Israel.
The bullet-riddled bodies of Israeli residents now lie on the ground among burnt-out houses, strewn furniture and burnt-out cars. Solemn Israeli soldiers went from house to house today to take away the many people who were killed there.
The death toll among Israelis now stands at more than 1,000 – making it the single largest massacre of Jewish people since Hitler’s Holocaust.
Israel and the IDF’s counter-offensive also caused mass deaths in Gaza after a ‘total siege’ of the region was ordered.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said authorities would cut off electricity to the Gaza Strip and block the entry of food and fuel, declaring that his troops were ‘fighting barbarians (terrorists) and would respond accordingly’.
The airstrikes have so far leveled many towns in the Palestinian enclave’s northeastern corner, which Hamas terrorists have used as a staging ground for their attacks.
The war was launched by Hamas in the early hours of Saturday, during the Jewish high holiday of Simchat Torah.
Terrorists massacred 260 Israeli revelers at a festival in a hail of bullets, with survivors describing how the gunmen went ‘tree by tree’ to execute victims.
Palestinians inspect damages in the wake of Israeli strikes, following a Hamas surprise attack, at Beach refugee camp, in Gaza City, October 9, 2023
After the attacks on Saturday morning, Hamas took dozens of Israeli civilians hostage
Israel has no choice but to meet violence with violence. The Middle East’s only democracy has every right to defend itself (Photo: Gaza on Sunday)
Many lay still in sheer terror for more than five hours before hearing the sound of armed rescuers speaking in Hebrew.
President Joe Biden delivered a dramatic speech on Tuesday in which he pledged to stand with Israel and denounce the “unadulterated evil” of terrorist attacks that killed more than 1,000 people, including 14 Americans, over the weekend set.
Biden’s comments come three full days since he released a short video following the initial attack on Saturday. He has been criticized for a slow response to the crisis, hosting a barbecue for staff on Sunday and not appearing in public on Monday.
But he broke his silence with a speech dripping with anger at the atrocities unleashed by Hamas terrorists and warned that American citizens were also among the civilians captured.
“You know there are moments in this life — I mean that literally — when pure, unadulterated evil is unleashed on this world,” he said, flanked by Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
‘The people of Israel went through such a moment this weekend.’