Appalling by NYU-Langone Hospital. A nurse at NYU given an award for her work with bereaved mothers briefly mentioned Palestine in her remarks at the awards ceremony.
She was promptly fired.
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Hesen Jabr seems like an uncommonly amazing human being. I went to her Insta to watch video of the award ceremony where she was lauded by her supervisor. Her short speech was very touching.
Fired. Escorted out of the building by a plain clothes police officer.
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I transcribed Hesen Jabr's full remarks.
At NYU-Langone Hospital, after receiving the Sebastian Brun Compassionate Care Award for exemplifying compassionate care for patients and their families suffering a perinatal loss.
Hesen Jabr:
I fail to see or hear anything objectionable with what Hesen Jabr said. She called what Israel is doing a "genocide", but so have I and I'm a Jew also from NYC and whose alma mater is NYU.
About what, exactly? NYU is a private business. They have the legal right to discipline or fire workers for absolutely anything that's not explicitly proscribed by civil rights law.
What they did here is extraordinarily immoral but we're not understanding the problem if we imagine a legal remedy
I'm sure Bari Weiss, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, and Elon Musk and the other defenders of free speech will jump right on this suppression of constitutionally protected free speech
As much as I want to agree with you, that only applies to state actors, which NYU-Langone hospital is not. If she were punished by the government (like, say, the Columbia and NYU students were by the police), then I'd agree with you.
The video is extremely touching. People say she helps the other nurses on staff to deal with these awful situations. She apparently has an almost unique gift with women who have lost babies and her colleagues too.
Should be on the cover of People magazine situation.
Instead, thuggish treatment.
It's heartbreaking. Such a beautiful and sensitive soul this woman has.
Engaged in the work that is a higher calling than almost any of us can say we do.
They think they can just throw her away.
Awful. On the video of her getting the award, her colleagues say such lovely things. How she helps *them* struggle thru comforting bereaved mothers.
She speaks with enormous humility, sharing praise with her co-workers and talks about how the women of her family taught her.
An icon of a nurse ⭐️
There is a terrible problem rn with punishing people. It's a new McCarthyism.
The nurse was asked to speak after she was given an award. She paid homage to where she came from and the women of her family. She wasn't on a political tear.
Yes she is treated like a terrorist. I hope it can be fixed.
Eileen,it breaks my heart. It is happening all over,businesses,colleges. I wish more would think to themselves,what if they had family,friends,in Gaza, and were fearful to speak up for their loved ones. Wishing you peace,Eileen.
