Friday, May 31, 2024

Palestinian American nurse fired for calling Israel's bloodbath in Gaza 'genocide'

(This is how they fight. They run to your bosses and claim that by speaking the truth about a situation, it puts them 'at risk'... I guess because they are Jewish... and therefore you must be fired for saying something completely true. It is madness and stupidity and cowardice that companies are forced to give into such backhanded, slimy tactics.)

from PressTV

A Palestinian American nurse has been fired from her position at a hospital in New York City following her description of Israel's actions in Gaza as "genocide".

Hesen Jabr, who was working at the NYU Langone Health, a major New York hospital system, announced on Instagram that she received an award on May 7, and a termination letter later in the same month.

In her award acceptance speech arranged to recognize her efforts in supporting grieving the mothers who experienced pregnancy and childbirth loss, Jabr had drawn her connection with mothers who had experienced the loss of their babies “during the current genocide in Gaza”.

"It pains me to see the women from my country going through unimaginable losses themselves during the current genocide in Gaza," Jabr said in the video of her speech that she posted online. “This award is deeply personal to me for those reasons.”

“Even though I can’t hold their hands and comfort them as they grieve their unborn children and the children they have lost during this genocide, I hope to keep making them proud as I keep representing them here at NYU,” she added.

Upon returning to office on May 22, Jabr discovered that she had been dismissed from her duties at the hospital, with the hospital authorities claiming that she had “offended people” and “put others at risk” during her online speech...

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