🏥 NEWS | Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC fired social worker Claire Raizen after she refused to remove a small “Gaza Must Live” postcard from her desk, visible only to coworkers. “Complying with this order felt like it was going to compromise my most core ethical values,” said Raizen, whose family lost relatives in the Holocaust. In a July 10 call she recorded, oncology social work director Alison Snow told her “somebody has been [made] uncomfortable by” the postcard and it must come down, warning she’d face discipline for “willful insubordination” if she refused. Colleagues say her firing disrupted patient care and reflects a double standard, noting no action against staff displaying pro-Israel symbols. A petition protesting her dismissal has over 350 signatures.
