{"id":414,"date":"2024-06-15T16:16:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-15T16:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmcreativa.com\/?p=414"},"modified":"2024-08-12T10:40:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T10:40:55","slug":"protesters-gather-outside-nyu-langone-hospital-condemning-termination-of-labor-nurse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmcreativa.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/15\/protesters-gather-outside-nyu-langone-hospital-condemning-termination-of-labor-nurse\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters gather outside NYU Langone hospital condemning termination of labor nurse"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Around 100 protesters gathered outside NYU Langone Health\u2019s Tisch Hospital on Friday afternoon to demand that the medical center formally apologize to labor nurse Hesen Jabr, who was <\/span>terminated<\/span><\/a> in late May after she spoke about the suffering of women during the war in Gaza in her acceptance speech for a compassionate care award.<\/span><\/p>\n

The group, which formed across the street from the hospital\u2019s main entrance, called on NYU Langone to \u201cacknowledge and condemn Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza,\u201d dedicate resources to rebuilding health infrastructure in Gaza and divest from companies with ties to Israel, according to flyers posted around the hospital. At the protest, organized by the group Healthcare Workers for Palestine, demonstrators chanted \u201cover 40,000 dead, but they\u2019re firing us instead\u201d and carried signs reading \u201cNYU is complicit in genocide\u201d before turning their focus to a series of speakers including Jabr, a rabbi and other organizers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not the first and I won\u2019t be the last until we stay banded together and Palestine is free,\u201d Jabr said in a speech at the rally. \u201cInstitutions like NYU silence its employees for speaking out about what\u2019s right.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As Jabr spoke, a pro-Israeli counterprotester approached the demonstration and started shouting. The counterprotester punched a member of the group who allegedly waved a flag in front of them, and was zip-tied and escorted away by police soon after. A New York City Police Department officer on the scene could not confirm details of the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A counterprotester started shouting in front of the demonstrators at the rally. (Jason Alpert-Wisnia for WSN)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Around a dozen NYPD officers were stationed on each side of the road, using barricades to limit demonstrators to the sidewalk.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe stand with health care workers who will risk their job to speak out against genocide,\u201d one unidentified speaker said at the protest. \u201cWe stand side by side with Hesen for fighting for her community, for standing up for Palestinians and against NYU.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

NYU Langone has faced scrutiny in the last few weeks from pro-Palestinian groups on campus \u2014 including <\/span>The NYU Palestine Solidarity Coalition<\/span><\/a> and <\/span>Alumni for Justice in Palestine<\/span><\/a> \u2014 after Jabr\u2019s firing was announced last month. Jabr, who said women in Gaza are \u201cgoing through unimaginable losses\u201d in her speech, said administrators told her she \u201cruined the ceremony\u201d before terminating her on May 22, Jabr\u2019s first day at the hospital after receiving the award.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

More recently, Healthcare Workers for Palestine said in an <\/span>Instagram post<\/span><\/a> that NYU Langone also contacted them about \u201cunlawfully\u201d using its logo in a post titled \u201cConfronting Zionism in Healthcare.\u201d According to a screenshot from the post, NYU Langone administration claimed the group\u2019s usage of the medical center\u2019s logo \u201cincorrectly implies we are supporting these activities when we are not.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The demonstration came one day after NYU Langone CEO Robert Grossman and chair of the medical center\u2019s board of trustees Kenneth Langone announced <\/span>they would retire<\/span><\/a> next year. This past academic year, staff at the medical center have been penalized for workplace tensions over the war in Gaza. In November, NYU Langone <\/span>removed<\/span><\/a> a physician from his residency program after reposting a message in support of Palestinian resistance on social media. The same month, the former director of NYU Langone\u2019s Perlmutter Cancer Center <\/span>was terminated<\/span><\/a> after making social media posts related to the war, which some have called \u201cracist\u201d and \u201canti-Arab.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

An NYU Langone spokesperson and Healthcare Workers for Palestine did not respond to multiple requests for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact Mikaylah Du at news@nyunews.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Around 100 protesters gathered outside NYU Langone Health\u2019s Tisch Hospital on Friday afternoon to demand that the medical center formally apologize to labor nurse Hesen Jabr, who was terminated in late May after she spoke about the suffering of women during the war in Gaza in her acceptance speech for a compassionate care award. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmcreativa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmcreativa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmcreativa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmcreativa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmcreativa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmcreativa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/mmcreativa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmcreativa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmcreativa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmcreativa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmcreativa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}