White-shoe law firm Sullivan & Cromwell to screen job applicants for participation in anti-Israel protests
A white-shoe law firm whose clients have included Goldman Sachs, Google and Tesla will screen job applicants to determine whether they took part in incendiary anti-Israel protests, according to a report.
Sullivan & Cromwell has hired HireRight, aജ company that specializes in background checks, to scrutinize pro-Palestinian college graduates fresh out of law school who are seeking a job 🐬with the firm,
Job applicants who seek to work at Sullivan & Cromwell can be disqualified if they are found to have taken part in demonstrations in which protesters utter phrases that are “triggering” to Jews, according to Joseph Shenker, a partner at the firm.
Sullivan & Cromwell will review news footage, social media feeds and viral videos to determine whether anyone applying for a job at the firm took par🍸t in protests.
“People are taking their outrage about what’s going on in Gaza and turning it into racist antisemitism,” Shenker told the 𝔍Times.
She🍌nker said the firm, which employs more than 900 lawyers in 13 offices scattered across four continents, could disqualify a prospective employee even if they do not utter phrases that are deemed controversial.
He told the Times that anyone who takes part in a protest in which demonstrators chant antisemitic slogans was embracing a “mob mentality” and that they would be held responsible for comments made by others.
Sh❀enker said the law firm 𒐪will not interrogate applicants about their personal beliefs and opinions.
According to the Times, Sulliꦕvan & Cromwell rivals are mulling the adopt🌞ion of similar rules for applicants.
Th🌜e Post has sought comment fromܫ Sullivan & Cromwell.
On Oct. 7, Hamas terrorists overran Israeli towns near the border with the Gaza🐻 Strip, killing nearly 1,200 people and taking scores hostage.
Israel’s military response against Hamas in the Gaza Strip sparked massive protests and demonstrations across college campuses nationwide — with some participants chanting slogans deemed antisemitic.
In the weeks following the Hamas attacks, Davis Polk, a prominent law firm, rescinded job offers for three law students from Harvard and Columbia over their alleged connection to a letter circulating across the two campuses which blamed ♍Israel.
Another law firm, Winston & Strawn, revoked a job offer for a New York University law student who wrote in a student bar association online publication that “Israel bears full responsibility” for Hamas’ deadly attack.
Rawda Fawaz, an attorney with the Council on American-Islamic Relations who was hired by a big law firm after graduating from Columbia in 2022, criticiz🍷ed the policy implemented by Sullivan & Cromwell.
“When we went through 💫big law recrui🔯tment, we knew your social media better be clean, you better not have on there anything that you can’t defend, you have to be a respectable person to be able to get a job at any of these places,” Fawaz told the Times.
“That has always been the practice. Why do y🔴ou have to have a special policy on this?”
