NHS Staff “Wore Free Palestine Shirts While Treating Jews”
NHS staff have been reported for allegedly “intimidating” Jewish patients by wearing pro-Palestine badges and shirts while treating them. The Telegraph has more.
Barts Health NHS Trust, which runs five hospitals in central and east London, is reviewing its workplace dress code following complaints of staff wearing political symbols and Palestine football shirts.
Lawyers claimed that NHS staff have created an “intimidating, hostile and offensive environment for Israeli or Jewish patients and staff”.
Allowing staff to wear such items could breach of the Equality Act, the lawyers warned, adding it was “not appropriate for staff members at a hospital to display their political views”.
At Whipps Cross Hospital, an intern was pictured wearing a Palestine football shirt with two maps of Israel on the back.
According to U.K. Lawyers for Israel, the nurses carrying out dialysis on the patient who had complained, threatened to stop treating him if he did not delete the photograph.
This response was said to breach a “multitude of regulations for nurses” by “threatening to risk the patient’s health”, the lawyers claimed.
The legal group said that over the past year, they had received complaints about “many of the staff at Newham Hospital wearing large badges, attached to their hospital lanyards, with the slogan ‘Free Palestine’”.
They said the badges had been supplied to staff by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
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There’ll be plenty of CCTV evidence as the police start investigating NCHIs and hate crimes.
Quick, before it’s all deleted!
Yeah I think some “hate crimes” are more “hatey” than others, if you catch my drift…
What? Like a kind of Two Tier system?
If free speech is banned in the Uk folks, kiss your dreams goodbye.
The police won’t investigate shit; to coin a phrase. Wrong type of suspects, wrong type of victims.
That is the permitted hate!
DS links to the terrible Telegraph yet again but the exact same story is covered here, sans paywall;
”Staff at NHS hospitals have been reported for wearing pro-Palestinian clothing and badges at work.
These occurrences, which have been described as “intimidating and distressing,” have prompted Barts Health NHS Trust to review their dress code.
According to UK Lawyers of Israel (UKLFI), several incidents have been reported in the past few weeks, including a case of an elderly Jewish man who was deeply troubled after seeing staff members wearing a Palestine pin while being treated at St Bartholemew’s Hospital.”
https://www.gbnews.com/news/nhs-staff-reported-free-palestine-shirt-badges-treating-jewish-patients
How dare they intimidate these poor Jews.
Whilst in the real world 43,000+ Palestinians in Gaza, 70% of which were women and children, have been killed by Jews.
Whatever your opinion, the NHS is not the forum for displaying political or ideological beliefs.
You know, apart from the super special protected one, yeah, all except that one…
The figure of 43,000 comes from Hamas so has to treated with a bucketful of salt. Even if 30,000 civilians have been killed (Imo the real figure is likely to be a lot lower) this is a very low death toll from a year of urban warfare, against an enemy that fired rockets from apartment blocks etc. To put it in perspective the battle of Stalingrad is estimated to of resulted in the death of at least 40,000 civilians out of a pre war population of about 445,000. In other words, as a proportion of the population, about 10 times as many civilians died in 4-5 months of fighting in Stalingrad as have died in a year of fighting in Gaza. To me this shows that Israel are trying to minimise civilian casualties. Obviously those people who have a very childish, simplistic view and think that Israel (Jews) are evil colonisers and Palestinians are innocent victims aren’t going to be interested in facts like this.
The UN sees the figure of 43,000 reliable.
https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-about-70-of-people-killed-in-the-war-are-women-and-children-un-says-13250711
The Lancet believes it will be 186,000 deaths.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/8/gaza-toll-could-exceed-186000-lancet-study-says
Back in May Ralph Nader estimated over 200,000 deaths.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/political-theatre/ralph-nader-200000-palestinians-have-died-since-october-7/
Obviously, rabid Zionists aren’t going to be interested in facts like this.
To intimate there is no mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza and Arabs anywhere the IDF can bomb them is less than serious. To compare today’s genocide with yesteryear’s wars is also no justification for what is happening right now, with the full support of your government. To unquestioningly believe all the pro-Israel propaganda pumped out not only by mainstream media but also by Daily Sceptic is something one can improve on!
Well maybe if they got rid of their terrorist “Government” it would not be happening, just a thought, no lives are more important, ALL lives are, and I can only assume you have proof?
I quite agree. If Israel got rid of their terrorist government it would not be happening.
What I don’t understand about you ‘Queers for Palestine’ people is how you can’t see that if you ever went to Gaza you’d be the first to be flung off of a tall building.
So now you have to be a queer to object to the mass killing of civilians?
I’ve read through my comment and I can’t find ‘you must be queer to object to the mass killing of civilians’ anywhere. Sorry.
I have commented in the past that;
a) civilians do get killed in wars, especially when the death cult that started it have openly stated that they revel in the mass killing of civilians and will be using them as human shields.
b) there has been no pressure from the evidently antisemitic on Hamas to hand over the hostages and the perpetrators of the October 7th pogrom, even though they know that that would end the war, and therefore the mass killing of civilians, overnight.
So to summarise, this isn’t, and never has been, about the mass killing of civilians. They are just pawns in your silly game.
As I have said before I have been supporting Palestinians for well over 40 years so I am one of the last people they would throw off a tall building.
However, rabid Zionists like you who support the genocide would not be welcome.
You’re in denial mate. Islamist death cults don’t take too kindly to apostates. Ask the leftists who helped the Islamists to power in Iran in 1979.
Oh that’s right, you can’t. Most of them were put to death.
You’re making the usual racists mistake.
The vast majority of the 2 billion Muslims in the world are peace loving.
And you’re playing strawmanism. At no point have I mentioned ‘the vast majority of the 2 billion muslims’. And therefore your extremely weak argument collapses and your inability to counter argue my points becomes glaringly obvious.
I’ve been on The Lockdown Sceptic from its inception (now The Daily Sceptic) and you have by far the worst attitude I’ve come across.
Change your lack of debating skills or STFU.
Touched a nerve did I?
You have yet to counter my points but instead try to intimidate me. Your last sentence proves you simply lost the argument. Suck it up, buttercup.
So, I think we have established the following:
1) Hamas are a theocratic dictatorial death cult that regards the Palestinian people as nothing more than cannon fodder to be used and abused in its pursuit of an authoritarian caliphate that has no place for Jews.
2) Those who pretend that they care about the loss of human life are not interested in
pursuing the quickest route to end the war, which of course is pressuring Hamas to hand over hostages and those who planned and carried out the October 7th pogrom, and therefore are using Palestinian casualties as a fig leaf to cover their blatant antisemitism.
Thank you for helping to prove my points, it’s much appreciated.
I’m tempted to say ‘well, why shouldn’t they? it’s a T-shirt!’
But, in a country where you can be jailed for a tweet that is regarded as islamophobic, it’s obvious that the police need to drop any investigations of mere murders, etc. and get round there pronto. Anything less would be a demonstration of 2-tier policing.
although – on second thoughts, aren’t they expected to wear some sort of uniform? Or is that one of those surgical free Palestine shirts?
That’s what I don’t understand. Why is the person in the photo wearing their own T-shirt? Why are they not in the sacred PPE at least? I know hygiene in the NHS is pretty lax, seen from my own experience, but wearing their own clothing whilst treating patients, particularly in dialysis, should be off limits.
I’m not sure where I stand on this. I have always been i under the impression that hospital staff wore specific clothing: white coats, nurses uniforms etc. So if they were wearing t-shirts someone senior should, surely, have pulled them up for this? But also if I was needing hospital treatment I think I’d just be grateful to be being treated and am not sure if he worrying too much about what the person trading me was wearing.
Al long as you don’t complain, because they may threaten to withdraw treatment. That alone should cost them their job.
I wore my Israel pin badge whilst having a major heart incident a month ago. World class service at Northampton General, as always.
Nobody at the hospital batted an eyelid.
I’m still ticking, and praising the God of Israel.
We each make our choice and take the temporal and eternal consequences that result.
glad you’re better!
Maybe you should get a badge that says “Thank God for the IDF”.
I’m not religious so I don’t literally thank God for the IDF but I fully support them and am glad they’re doing what needs to be done in ridding the world of terrorists such as Hamas.
Don’t have the badge, but have got several Tee shirts 😉
And did you see anyone wearing a Palestine T-shirt or pin? Would you have been “deeply troubled” if you had? Then you could have written a newspaper article about it.
…Imagines an old-school Matron standing arms folded and eyes narrowed blocking the entrance to her ward if either a nurse or doctor dared to approach anything less than immaculately turned out / uniformed;
Never mind wearing ultra casual gear with political slogans prominently displayed.
This horrifies me. I trained at Barts and worked both there and at the Homerton as a junior doctor. We had a lot of Jewish patients, especially at the Homerton. How appalling to be seriously ill or be visiting a seriously ill relative and being confronted with this. There were also many Jewish doctors in my time and we had a senior colleague who was Israeli, what’s also horrifying is the almost certainty if anyone complained be they staff or patient they would probably be disciplined or even referred to the Police.
What would have been horrifying would be to wear a T Shirt with pictures of the children that Israel blows up on a daily basis. But then again it would also be an important statement. If you can handle seeing graphic images of the effects of smoking on cigarette packets, then you should be able to see graphic images of the effects of supporting a genocidal regime on the T shirts of Muslims that are getting their families blown up.
Surely wearing outdoors clothes is a major source of infection?
So what! Who cares. Is wearing a shirt tantamount now to murdering someone? If so please let us know.
What is ANY employee of ANY organisation/enterprise doing wearing clothing with visible political statements on it. That this occurred in the NHS is unforgivable. It matters a lot that Jewish patients were confronted with this nonsense, but, to be honest, that is irrelevant. No-one, regardless of colour, creed, religion or political bent should be aware, in any way, of the colour, creed, religion or political bent of those serving them. Imagine the kerfuffle if the message on the clothing had been pro Reform or pro Brexit. Blimey! the MSM would be incandescant. Both the individuals and their managers should be fired without delay.
This whole story sounds a bit iffy and threadbare. Shock horror what a bloody surprise.
They give you this Klaus Schwab great reset stuff because they don’t want you to think about the real great resets that occur. If you knew that one was imminent would you go to work, would you be their police or army, or would you use such an opportunity to start behaving rationally? They can’t have that because your rationality would lead you to understand that they have been parasites from the start. If you are so inclined that read the Apocalypse of John and what it says about the opening of the first seal and how this relates to the Covid era.
They are going to pull a big one on you soon. Don’t be a schmuck who basically just masturbated or rolled around in his own excrement until he died. I know that they have turned you into this sort of character. You must use every ounce of spiritual energy that you have left to jump out of this.