Upstate New York’s Siena College nixed plans to let a medical professor speak on campus after facing heat over the invite because of her claims that Zionist doctors could pose a threat to US medicine and public health.

“The presence of Zionism in US medicine should be examined as a structural impediment to health equity,” Dr. Rupa Marya, associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, posted on X last week.

“Zionism is a supremacist; racist ideology and we see Zionist doctors justifying the genocide of Palestinians,” she continued.

“How does their outlook/position impact priorities in US medicine?”

Local lawmakers and Jewish civil rights groups slammed the comments as antisemitic and questioned Siena College’s selection of Marya as speaker in a March lecture series.

“Portraying Zionists as a threat to US medicine is unmistakably antisemitic,” Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres told The Post on Wednesday.

“Professor Rupa Mary has no business being in academia, let alone speaking at Siena College. She is an embarrassment to the academic enterprise,” he said.

A spokesperson for the Anti-Defamation League said it was “deeply troubling” that Siena College had invited “invited someone who has shared horrific and hateful antisemitic conspiracy theories” to be part of its Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King Lecture Series on Race and Nonviolent Social Change.

“While there’s room for criticism of Israel on campus, there is simply no room for those who promote antisemitic conspiracy theories,” the ADL rep said.

“We strongly condemn Dr. Marya’s hateful rhetoric and are in direct contact with university leaders and have urged them to reconsider this choice.”

Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, a former longtime trustee of the City University of New York’s governing board added that, “Saying Zionism has no place is the same as saying the Jews have no place in medicine.”

“Zionism means Judaism. You’re saying Jews shouldn’t be in medicine. Without Jewish doctors you could close half the hospitals in New York,” he said.

He noted that Israeli doctors have treated enemies in the leadership of Hamas and the Palestine Liberation Organization.

“Israeli doctors save the lives of many Palestinians. She knows it,” Wiesenfeld said.

On its website, the college, located in Loudonville just outside of Albany, said it was “proud to welcome” Marya to speak March 13 on the topic of “Decolonizing Medicine: Transforming our World Through Medicine, Activism, and Music.”

Marya supports the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel.

She has accused Israel of committing war crimes in Gaza that have been “sanctioned by every medical institution in the US who refused to speak up and demand a ceasefire as Israel bombed hospital and hospital after hospital.”

The college announced Wednesday evening that it revoked Marya’s invitation to speak.

Siena President Chuck Seifert told the school community in an email that the professor had made recent “troubling public statements that have crossed an intolerable line.”

“Since the onset of the conflict in the Middle East, Dr. Marya has actively engaged in anti-Israel commentary on her social media,” Seifert said. “She seems to dangerously conflate all Jewish people with a particular political ideology, as well as a racist trope – and that’s not only hurtful, it’s hateful.”

“Siena is a place for everyone and all perspectives, as long as those perspectives are presented with respect and compassion,” he added. “Academic freedom is woven into the fabric of our identity as a liberal arts institution, and our Franciscan values represent our soul.

“Speech that espouses bigotry simply does not align with the values and mission of the MLK and CSK Lecture Series or our College’s tradition.”

Marya, through U. Cal, had no immediate comment.

Marya founded the Deep Medicine Circle, described as a women of color-led organization committed to healing the wounds of colonialism through food, medicine, story, restoration and learning.

Additional reporting by David Propper