In November 2023, a then 26-year-old lawyer at the New York City office of legal firm Sidley Austin wrote a blog post that criticised a number of law firms, including her own, for their opposition to pro-Palestine protests at university campuses in the US.
The blog post also argued that it was not anti-Semitic to criticise Israel, and warned that the country was entering a new era of repression, where the employment of lawyers was in jeopardy if they expressed views critical of Israel.
The lawyer, named Melat Kiros, was fired after refusing to take down the post.
This week, Kiros was elected to Congress, as the first ever Gen Z woman to win a seat in the House of Representatives. She also became the first Black person to represent Colorado.
Kiros is one of six Democratic Socialists to be elected at the midterms, marking a historic night for the movement, which had campaigned hard on universal healthcare, abolishing ICE and opposing US military aid to Israel.
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