Hospital employees say the termination is an example of the anti-Palestinian climate at the institution.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/34824378

August 13, 2025

Last year, Claire Raizen, a social worker at Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Hospital[…] put up a small postcard at her desk bearing the words “Gaza Must Live.” Raizen said this affirmation of her values in her workplace was an attempt to manage the disconnect that arose from “knowing atrocities are happening” in Gaza while she went about her daily life. The postcard was in a space where only co-workers came and went, she said, and was out of view of patients.

At first, other employees at the top-ranked hospital who saw the postcard reacted positively, Raizen said. “I had co-workers that would come into my office and say, ‘it’s so amazing to know that this is a safe place to talk about Palestine."

  • Lasherz@lemmy.worldM
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    3 days ago

    If your core ethical values allowed you to continue working for the preeminent Jewish hospital in the nation, then they aren’t very “core” or “ethical” at that point.

    Are Jewish institutions all zionists? Surely not, but I don’t know the recent history of that specific institution.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
      2·
      3 days ago

      I mean, I would personally widen it to religious institutions in general. I would not be able to suck it up and work for a Catholic hospital for example.

      • Lasherz@lemmy.worldM
        4·
        3 days ago

        I wouldn’t either, since I’m an anti-theist. I just think the wording on that comment could use some revision to show it’s about theists doing evil things in the name of religion rather than an equation of Jewish = Zionist ethnonationalist sympathizer, since there’s a lot of people looking out for that comparison on the left to justify it as a substantial problem or help minimize that same problem on the right.