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Terry Newman: The anti-Zionist doctor who didn't know what she'd done wrong

An anti-Israel agitator created a hostile environment at a historically Jewish hospital. The Toronto Star wants you to believe she is the victim

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Kavita Algu, a former palliative care doctor at Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital, recently quit after a workplace investigator found her to be disruptive and unprofessional, which the Toronto Star would like you to believe is some kind of injustice. Judging from the Star’s own “investigation” and Algu’s activism, this couldn’t be further from the truth.

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According to the Star’s investigation, Algu “was never told specifically what she did wrong.” She was just a physician who engaged in Palestinian advocacy and “ultimately felt she had no choice but to leave a career she had spent years building.”

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The Star’s Shree Paradkar notes that Algu wasn’t a particularly experienced public speaker when she spoke at a Toronto rally in 2024, but that she “felt obligated........

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