She didn’t even call for divestment or say one of the claimed “slurs”. She just mentioned being a Palestinian Muslim and called the genocide a genocide.
Transcript below, OCR ripped from here
The Instagram link at the very bottom is the entire speech.
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:
Good morning, everybody. It happens to be my birthday today so thank you for kicking it off in a beautiful way.
I’m also not a professional speaker. So, I wrote a few things here from my heart.
I just wanted to talk this moment to express my gratitude to my co-workers first and foremost, who nominated me for the award. Truthfully, it does belong to all the nurses on Labor who have held the hands of a grieving mother as she suffers one of the most devastating deviations from reality they could ever have imagined.
The level of integrity, compassion, and humanity to be able to be present and comfort these patients as they navigate one of the most challenging times of their lives, is something that really can’t be put into words.
And, for that, I’m also grateful to my mother and my grandmothers who instilled these traits in me. To earnestly and sincerely want to care for these patients and alleviate their pain during the most difficult time of their lives.
As a Palestinian-American Muslim woman in this country, I am proud to represent my mother’s and my grandmothers’ upbringing through our traditions and customs which oblige us to always hold space for warmth and compassion for all humans.
It pains me to see the women from my country going through unimaginable losses themselves during the current genocide in Gaza. This award is deeply personal to me for those reasons. Even though I can’t hold their hands and comfort them as they grieve their unborn children and the children they have lost during this genocide, I hope to keep making them proud as I keep representing them here at NYU.
She didn’t even call for divestment or say one of the claimed “slurs”. She just mentioned being a Palestinian Muslim and called the genocide a genocide.
Transcript below, OCR ripped from here
The Instagram link at the very bottom is the entire speech.
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:
Good morning, everybody. It happens to be my birthday today so thank you for kicking it off in a beautiful way.
I’m also not a professional speaker. So, I wrote a few things here from my heart.
I just wanted to talk this moment to express my gratitude to my co-workers first and foremost, who nominated me for the award. Truthfully, it does belong to all the nurses on Labor who have held the hands of a grieving mother as she suffers one of the most devastating deviations from reality they could ever have imagined.
The level of integrity, compassion, and humanity to be able to be present and comfort these patients as they navigate one of the most challenging times of their lives, is something that really can’t be put into words.
And, for that, I’m also grateful to my mother and my grandmothers who instilled these traits in me. To earnestly and sincerely want to care for these patients and alleviate their pain during the most difficult time of their lives.
As a Palestinian-American Muslim woman in this country, I am proud to represent my mother’s and my grandmothers’ upbringing through our traditions and customs which oblige us to always hold space for warmth and compassion for all humans.
It pains me to see the women from my country going through unimaginable losses themselves during the current genocide in Gaza. This award is deeply personal to me for those reasons. Even though I can’t hold their hands and comfort them as they grieve their unborn children and the children they have lost during this genocide, I hope to keep making them proud as I keep representing them here at NYU.
Thank you.
[resounding applause]
video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7dEqylofUU/