New #McCartism in #US: Hesen Jabr, a labor and delivery nurse, a New York City #hospital, has been fired after referring to Israel’s war in Gaza as “genocide” during a speech accepting an award.
Jabr, a Palestinian-American, was being honored by #NYU Langone Health for her compassion in caring for mothers who had lost babies when she drew a link between her work and the suffering of mothers in #Gaza.
from #NewYorkTimes [expires in 30 days] #NYU Nurse Is Fired After Calling the #Gaza War a ‘Genocide’ in Speech
NYU #LangoneHealth gave the nurse, #HesenJabr, an award for her work. She said hospital officials then fired her because she made pro- #Palestinian remarks in an acceptance speech.
from #NewYorkTimes [gift article link below]
Bias alert - NYT usually favors [#Israel]
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Who assaults Palestinians on daily basis violating #HumanRights everyday? NNiMF neo Nazi israel murder force.
Who deliberately targets non combatants men, women, children, toddlers, humanitarian aid workers, UN staff, journalists, food convoys then calls all those killed terrorists? NNiMF neo Nazi israel murder force ordered by neo Nazi copycat war criminal pedophile netanyahu.
Educate yourself with the Palestinian struggle of apartheid and the conditions they are surviving in the world's largest open air concentration camp.
"The last poem read aloud was titled “If I Must Die.” It was written, hauntingly, by a Palestinian poet and academic named Refaat Alareer who was killed weeks earlier by an Israeli airstrike. The poem ends: “If I must die, let it bring hope — let it be a tale.”
Soon after those lines were recited, the university administration shut the reading down"