Dr. Mark Bouyzk, a prominent American biotech scientist, was ousted Friday from the company he founded after a video surfaced showing him and his wife confronting their Jewish neighbor with antisemitic slurs.
The incident, recorded in Dunwoody, a suburb of Atlanta, captured Anna Bouyzk screaming at David Lubin, father of fallen Border Police Staff Sergeant Elisheva Rose Ida Lubin, killed in a November 2023 Jerusalem stabbing.
The couple's antisemitic attack against David Lubin
“You’re corrupt; your daughter went there to kill, she deserved to die,” Anna shouted, repeatedly using the derogatory term “kike”. Mark, her husband, offered no restraint, instead supporting her: “It’s fine, she fought. Since when can a combat soldier be killed? Come on,” and later mocked, “How many Palestinians die there daily?”
For Lubin, the attack capped a year of tension with the Bouyzks, who last year displayed a pro-Palestinian sign featuring “kike” 21 times. The confrontation erupted as he tried to post memorial stickers for his daughter, some previously torn down.
“This is what antisemitism looks like in real life” he wrote on Facebook. “It’s exhausting. It’s scary. And it’s a reminder: Hate isn’t some faraway problem — it’s here, staring us in the face. If we turn away, it wins. If we stay silent, it grows.”
Elishva, raised in Dunwoody, moved to Israel in August 2021 with a “deep sense of duty,” her father said. She joined the IDF in March 2022 as a lone soldier in the Border Police and was fatally stabbed by a 16-year-old near Jerusalem’s Old City police station. The attack, a month after the Gaza war began, shocked Georgia’s Jewish community, sparking vigils attended by hundreds.
Lubin, a bereaved father of five and a local public figure, is a construction entrepreneur who ran unsuccessfully for the Georgia State Senate last year as a Democrat, advocating gun violence prevention, quality education and women’s rights.
His profile has since become a symbol in the fight against rising U.S. antisemitism. The video, shared by StopAntisemitism, prompted calls for action: “Harassment of citizens mourning their Jewish daughter murdered must never be tolerated here.”
Anna Bouyzk refused to apologize, insisting, “I don’t regret it and would say it a million times again.” In local media interviews, she labeled Lubin a “corrupt Israeli” and provocateur who “tried to shove a camera in my face,” though she admitted using “kike.”
She even called him post-confrontation to continue the attack, blaming him for his daughter’s death. For Mark, the fallout was swift. AllaiHealth, which he founded after selling his genetics firm AKESOgen to Chicago’s Tempus in 2019, severed ties.
CEO Robert Boisjoli said, “The behavior in the video is abhorrent, misaligned with our values and has no place in our organization or society. We’re committed to a culture of respect. Dr. Bouyzk was terminated effective August 18.”
A veteran in biotech, Bouyzk earned a PhD in molecular genetics from the University of Hertfordshire, UK, and studied biochemistry at University College London, building a career spanning decades.
His collapse from a life-saving medical innovator to a hate symbol drew widespread U.S. media attention. For many, the Lubin family’s ordeal—losing a daughter to a terrorist attack in Israel—underscored a harsh reality.