Lauryn Workman
Overview
Lauryn Workman [Ryna Workman] has expressed support for Hamas terrorism and promoted hatred of Israel after it retaliated against Hamas for the October 7, 2023 terror attacks and war crimes.Also that month, Workman posted anti-Israel flyers over the spots where posters raising awareness of Israeli civilians kidnapped by Hamas had been ripped down.
Hamas kidnapped the civilians, including women and children, during a series of terror attacks and war crimes that left over 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded. Hamas executed the terror attacks on October 7, 2023. In addition to holding civilians hostage in Gaza, the other war crimes included mass murder, torture, rape and beheadings. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
On October 10, 2023, Workman served as the president of the Student Bar Association (SBA) at New York University (NYU) School of Law (NYU Law). On that day, Workman used the SBA listserv to send a message showing support for Hamas and blaming Israel for the Hamas war crimes.
Also on October 10, 2023, the law firm Winston & Strawn LLP, where Workman had worked as a “summer associate,” rescinded its employment offer to Workman for the “inflammatory comments regarding Hamas’ recent terrorist attack on Israel.”
On October 11, 2023, the SBA Board said it “voted to initiate the removal of the SBA President,” referring to Workman.
On November 27, 2023, the NYU Law student body reportedly voted to remove Workman as SBA president following the passage of a “no confidence” petition.
As of December 2023, Workman was listed on NYU Law’s website as a JD student slated to graduate in 2024. NYU is located in New York, New York.
Workman graduated [p. 7] from the University of South Carolina (UofSC) with a bachelor’s degree in 2021. Workman was reportedly the head of the College Democrats at UofSC and had been “a campus activist since at least 2019.”
On October 11, 2023, the SBA Board said it “voted to initiate the removal of the SBA President,” referring to Workman.
On November 27, 2023, the NYU Law student body reportedly voted to remove Workman as SBA president following the passage of a “no confidence” petition.
As of December 2023, Workman was listed on NYU Law’s website as a JD student slated to graduate in 2024. NYU is located in New York, New York.
Workman graduated [p. 7] from the University of South Carolina (UofSC) with a bachelor’s degree in 2021. Workman was reportedly the head of the College Democrats at UofSC and had been “a campus activist since at least 2019.”
Expressing Support for Hamas Terrorism
On October 10, 2023, Workman sent a “Message From The President” to NYU Law SBA in a weekly newsletter, addressing the Hamas October 7, 2023 terror attacks.Workman’s message read: “This week, I want to express, first and foremost, my 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. This regime of state-sanctioned violence created the conditions that made resistance necessary. I will not condemn Palestinian resistance.”
Among Palestinians and anti-Israel activists, the term “resistance” can be a euphemism for nationalistic terror. It is often used to excuse or even glorify anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence.
Hamas has been designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., Canada, European Union, Israel and other countries. Founded in 1987, it has killed thousands of Israeli civilians through mass shootings and suicide bombings. Hamas has also kidnapped children, families and the elderly and held them hostage in Gaza. It has desecrated [slide 2] dead bodies and launched numerous rocket attacks against Israeli civilians.
Workman’s October 10, 2023 message continued: “Instead… / I condemn the violence of apartheid. I condemn the violence of settler colonialism. I condemn the violence of military occupation…” Workman also condemned the “violence of obfuscating genocide as a ‘complex issue.’” She further claimed that Gaza was “an open-air prison.”
Workman ended the statement by saying: “Palestine will be free.”
Hamas intentionally targeted youth centers and elementary schools to execute and kidnap children. They also took stimulant drugs to give added energy to murder and maim. Nazis also took drugs during World War II to fuel their anti-Semitic massacres.
In the interview, Workman claimed [00:00:58] the backlash against Workman “have been well-documented” but that it was being used “as a big distraction from what’s really going on and that’s the genocide happening in Gaza.”
Workman continued and said [00:01:48]: “I think it’s important to know that the genocide happening right now did not start on October 7. It started over 75 years ago and that was what my message was intended to get across.” Israel was founded in 1948, 75 years earlier.
Workman was asked [00:02:06]: “Do you condemn Hamas’s actions on October 7?”
Workman replied [00:02:10]: “I think what I use my platform for and who I condemn was pretty clear by my message. And I think that I will continue to condemn apartheid and military occupation and that in this moment I’m focused on calling for an end to genocide and calling for an immediate ceasefire.”
Workman was asked [00:03:03]: “Do you have empathy for the Israeli victims?”
Workman responded [00:03:05]: “I think whether or not my empathy goes to Israelis or to Palestinians, is really not the question here. What the question is: ‘Will we call for an end to this genocide and will we call for a ceasefire?’”
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Workman ended the statement by saying: “Palestine will be free.”
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, approximately 2,900 heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation. Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.”
As of November 10, 2023, over 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.
As of December 25, 2023, Hamas had fired over 10,600 missiles from Gaza at Israeli communities, with Hamas claiming 5,000 the day it launched the attack. While Hamas was the main group involved, members of other terror groups also joined in the atrocities.
Many Palestinian civilians, including women and children, also participated in the attack. In several instances, Gazans who worked in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
In a December 2023 poll, 57% of Gazans and 82% of Palestinians in the West Bank supported the terror attacks. 42% of Gazans were supportive of Hamas rule, up from 38% before the attacks, and 44% in the West Bank supported Hamas, up from 12%.
Hamas began by launching thousands of rockets at Israel and using motorized paragliders “to infiltrate Israeli territory and secure terrain.” Terrorist ground forces destroyed parts of the border fence with Gaza, murdering and kidnapping soldiers.
Terrorists then turned their attention to 22 communities around Gaza, where they went house to house to savagely murder, mutilate and kidnap anyone they found. They executed children in front of their parents and parents in front of their children.
Terrorists beheaded children and babies, and massacred entire families, burning some alive who hid in their homes. Hamas terrorists kicked around the heads of beheaded victims like soccer balls. Israelis between the ages of three and 85 were kidnapped and taken forcibly to Gaza. Hamas has not allowed the Red Cross access to the hostages.
Over 360 unarmed young men and women were surrounded and slaughtered at one music festival alone. Bodies were publicly desecrated, with some dragged through the streets of Gaza, then beheaded.
Women were raped next to the bodies of dead friends. Some were raped and then shot in the head. Others, including young girls, were raped and murdered or mutilated in other ways. Israeli officials opened an unprecedented investigation into the widespread sexual assault. Forensic analysis of corpses showed evidence of torture and rape.
Hamas terrorists said they were given explicit orders to carry out the atrocities, including chopping off legs and raping the corpses of murdered victims.
Hamas intentionally targeted youth centers and elementary schools to execute and kidnap children. They also took stimulant drugs to give added energy to murder and maim. Nazis also took drugs during World War II to fuel their anti-Semitic massacres.
The atrocities were acknowledged as the worst single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, including by U.S. President Joe Biden, who also compared Hamas to ISIS. Hamas attacked on the annual holiday of Simchat Torah, which that year was on Shabbat, the weekly Jewish Sabbath.
The Hamas atrocities against Israeli civilians are crimes against humanity according to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
The mass murder generated great sympathy for Israel from many countries but led to countless celebrations among Palestinians and anti-Israel organizations in America that back the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Hamas called the October 7, 2023 terror attacks “Al-Aqsa Flood,” a reference to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The allegation that Jews “threaten” to destroy the mosque has been a pretext for Arab attacks on Jews long before Israel was founded in 1948. Such propaganda has led to multiple periods of violence against Israeli civilians.
Promoting Hatred of Israel During a War Against Hamas
On October 25, 2023, following NYU Law’s investigation into the incident, Workman did an interview with an ABC News reporter.In the interview, Workman claimed [00:00:58] the backlash against Workman “have been well-documented” but that it was being used “as a big distraction from what’s really going on and that’s the genocide happening in Gaza.”
Workman continued and said [00:01:48]: “I think it’s important to know that the genocide happening right now did not start on October 7. It started over 75 years ago and that was what my message was intended to get across.” Israel was founded in 1948, 75 years earlier.
Workman was asked [00:02:06]: “Do you condemn Hamas’s actions on October 7?”
Workman replied [00:02:10]: “I think what I use my platform for and who I condemn was pretty clear by my message. And I think that I will continue to condemn apartheid and military occupation and that in this moment I’m focused on calling for an end to genocide and calling for an immediate ceasefire.”
Workman was asked [00:03:03]: “Do you have empathy for the Israeli victims?”
Workman responded [00:03:05]: “I think whether or not my empathy goes to Israelis or to Palestinians, is really not the question here. What the question is: ‘Will we call for an end to this genocide and will we call for a ceasefire?’”
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“Israel bears full responsibility for this tremendous loss of life. This regime of state-sanctioned violence created the conditions that made resistance necessary. I will not condemn Palestinian resistance.”
