Public defender fired after post urging mass executions of Israelis

Lucas Gomez said his post was triggered by the “genocide” in Gaza but apologized for his “indefensible” post.

By World Israel News Staff

A New York City public defender who called for Israelis to be killed by firing squads in an online post has been dismissed from his job after pro-Israel advocates flagged the comments to his employer.

Lucas Gomez, an attorney with Brooklyn Defender Services, replied on X to a post that asked which country might theoretically take in millions of Israeli Jewish refugees.

“No one needs to ask this question when firing squads exist,” Gomez wrote. His post implied that Jewish Israelis should be executed rather than relocated.

A spokesperson for the Jewish watchdog group StopAntisemitism told Fox News Digital that “an employee from Gomez’s own office alerted us to his vile post calling for ‘firing squads.’”

The spokesperson added that “it is beyond alarming that an attorney entrusted with upholding the law would engage in such violent rhetoric,” and called for the New York State Bar Association to revoke Gomez’s license to practice law.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Gomez claimed his remarks were an emotional outburst triggered by what he called “the ongoing genocide in Palestine.”

Despite accusing the Jewish state of war crimes, Gomez apologized, calling the post “not only inappropriate but distasteful and offensive.”

He admitted the post was “awful, indefensible, and a lapse of judgment,” and stressed that it was “not a representation of my character or who I am as a person.”

Brooklyn Defender Services confirmed in a media statement that Gomez was terminated.

“He made a hateful statement that is antithetical to our ethos,” Brooklyn Defender Services Executive Director Lisa Schreibersdorf said.

She added that the organization aims to “uplift the humanity of all people and to seek kindness, justice and mercy in our courts and in our society,” and that Gomez’s remarks were incompatible with that mission.

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