Pro-Palestinian Protesters Target Manhattan Cancer Hospital By Haley Strack
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/pro-palestinian-protesters-target-manhattan-cancer-hospital/
Pro-Palestinian protesters holding signs that read “Healthcare Workers for Free Palestine” hurled insults at Manhattan’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on Monday.
Within Our Lives Palestine organized Monday’s “Flood Manhattan for Gaza MLK Day march for healthcare.” Hundreds of people marched past the cancer center, which is also a pediatric hospital, as part of the protest.
“In the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words, ‘injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere,’ we stand with the Palestinian people amid a grave healthcare crisis amidst the genocide in Gaza,” Within Our Lives said on Instagram.
Videos of the march show children inside Sloan Kettering watching from windows as protesters scream “shame” at them.
“Make sure they hear you; they’re in the windows,” a female organizer of the protest said.
With signs that read “Honor the martyrs of Palestine” and “NYC city workers for Palestine,” the group also marched past the United Nations, the Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Starbucks (“Starbucks, you can’t hide; you make drinks for human genocide”), and McDonald’s (“McDonald’s, you can’t hide; you make meals for genocide”).
“What about refusing to acknowledge an attack on Palestinian people, and especially the healthcare system, shows any form of compassion or respect for health?” one speaker said during the protest.
“Shame, shame, shame,” protesters shouted in turn.
Within Our Lifetime is a Palestinian-led New York organization that represents the “steadfast belief that no matter what obstacles we will face, victory of the oppressed is inevitable,” the group says on its website. The group’s latest anti-Israel campaign is centered on what it calls one of the biggest targets of “Israel’s 100 day genocidal campaign against Palestine”: health-care workers.
“To date, Israel has murdered 374 healthcare professionals. 342 healthcare workers have been injured, and at least 110 detained,” the group claims. “Israel has bombed 183 health facilities, including 23 hospitals, 59 clinics, and 92 ambulances. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, only 6 ambulances remain functional across Gaza, and 9 hospitals remain partially working in southern Gaza, with none left in the north.”
The organization defends the “right of Palestinians as colonized people to resist the zionist occupation by any means necessary” and reemphasized on October 7 its emphatic support for Palestinian liberation. Within Our Lifetime is the same group that in November distributed maps with the locations of Jewish-owned New York businesses marked. The group called the campaign “KNOW YOUR ENEMY.”
“From Jerusalem, to Gaza, to ’48, to the West Bank, to the camps, to everywhere where Palestinian refugees currently live in exile, we must defend the Palestinian right to resist zionist settler violence and support Palestinian resistance in all its forms,” Within Our Lifetime said on October 7. “By any means necessary. With no exceptions and no fine print.”
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