{"id":446,"date":"2024-05-30T02:51:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-30T02:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/?p=446"},"modified":"2024-07-04T13:53:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T13:53:56","slug":"nyu-langone-terminates-nurse-after-speech-about-current-genocide-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/30\/nyu-langone-terminates-nurse-after-speech-about-current-genocide-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"NYU Langone terminates nurse after speech about \u2018current genocide in Gaza\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A labor nurse at NYU Langone Health was terminated earlier this month after she spoke about the suffering of women \u201cduring the current genocide in Gaza\u201d in a speech when accepting an award for her work aiding mothers who had lost their children during pregnancy and childbirth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Hesen Jabr received this year\u2019s Sebastian Brown Compassionate Care Award from NYU Langone\u2019s nursing department on May 7 when she said \u201cit pains me to see the women from my country going through unimaginable losses\u201d in the war in Gaza. Jabr, a Palestinian American Muslim, said she was allegedly \u201cdragged into\u201d a meeting with administrators at the medical center on May 22 to discuss how she had \u201coffended people\u201d and \u201cruined the ceremony\u201d before receiving her termination letter, <\/span>according to a post<\/span><\/a> on her public Instagram account.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am proud to represent my mother\u2019s and my grandmother\u2019s upbringing through our traditions and customs, which oblige us to always hold space for warmth and compassion for all humans,\u201d Jabr said in <\/span>a recording of her speech<\/span><\/a> on Instagram. \u201cThis award is deeply personal to me for those reasons, even though I can\u2019t hold their hands and comfort them as they grieve their unborn children and the children they have lost during this genocide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Steve Ritea, a spokesperson for NYU Langone, told WSN Jabr was \u201cwarned\u201d not to \u201cbring her views on this divisive and charged issue into the workplace\u201d in December following a previous incident \u2014 the details of which he did not specify. Ritea said the medical center has regularly reminded all employees of its Code of Conduct and Social Media Policy.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShe instead chose not to heed that at a recent employee recognition event that was widely attended by her colleagues, some of whom were upset after her comments,\u201d Ritea wrote. \u201cAs an institution dedicated to healing, NYU Langone remains committed to providing a safe and inclusive environment, free of discrimination, for all of our employees and patients.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In November, NYU Langone <\/span>removed<\/span><\/a> physician Zaki Masoud from his residency program after he reposted a message in support of Palestinian resistance on a private Instagram account. A petition to reinstate him spread across social media soon after, garnering over 100,000 signatures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In a separate incident the same month, the former director of NYU Langone Health\u2019s Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center <\/span>was terminated<\/span><\/a> after making social media posts related to the war in Gaza, which some have called \u201cracist\u201d and \u201canti-Arab.\u201d The former director, Benjamin Neel, has since filed a lawsuit against the medical center alleging he was terminated without due process and that he was discriminated against on the basis of religion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Jabr did not respond to a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Contact Yezen Saadah at ysaadah@nyunews.com.<\/em><\/p>\n

This story NYU Langone terminates nurse after speech about \u2018current genocide in Gaza\u2019<\/a> appeared first on Washington Square News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A labor nurse at NYU Langone Health was terminated earlier this month after she spoke about the suffering of women \u201cduring the current genocide in Gaza\u201d in a speech when accepting an award for her work aiding mothers who had lost their children during pregnancy and childbirth.\u00a0 Hesen Jabr received this year\u2019s Sebastian Brown Compassionate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/homesinlincolnnebraska.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}