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A Palestinian American medical student objected to working alongside IDF soldiers. The university suspended her

www.theguardian.com A Palestinian American medical student objected to working alongside IDF soldiers. The university suspended her

Emory University put Umaymah Mohammad through ‘one of the most dehumanizing’ experiences of her life as a new front opens in the silencing of pro-Palestinian voices

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www.theguardian.com /us-news/2025/mar/24/emory-university-student-suspended-gaza-protest

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To everyone not reading this article: "working along side IDF soldiers" in this case means being a student at a university where one professor had volunteered for a short stint to be a medic for the IDF (because, you know, Oct 7 happened)
She got suspended because she outed him (though not by name directly) in an interview and opened him up to possible harassment. The suspension is questionable and we can debate the limits of free speech in this case.
BUT she was not suspended because she refused to work with or for the IDF. That is a bs title.
- To everyone not reading this article title: "A Palestinian American medical student objected to working alongside IDF soldiers. The university suspended her"
  BUT she was not suspended because she refused to work with or for the IDF. That is a bs title.
  Reread the title, it does not say that.
  She refused to work with a person who contributed to the genocide against her own people. He chose to be complicit in genocide. IDF soldiers are monsters and can fuck off. We should hand this guy over to the Hague. edit: typo
  
  Is the title implying or not implying that her suspension is related to the fact that objected to working alongside IDF?
  Explain to me how being a student is considered "working alongside" with a professor simply because they are both at the same school?
  
  Is the title implying or not implying that her suspension is related to the fact that objected to working alongside IDF?
  A Palestinian American medical student objected to working alongside IDF soldiers. The university suspended her
  The title says working alongside IDF soldiers. It's not implying anything.
  Explain to me how being a student is considered “working alongside” with a professor simply because they are both at the same school?
  At the same time, Mohammad told her Democracy Now! interviewer: “One of the professors of medicine we have at Emory recently went to serve as a volunteer medic” in the IDF. That professor, she continued, “participated in aiding and abetting a genocide, in aiding and abetting the destruction of the healthcare system in Gaza and the murder of over 400 healthcare workers, and is now back at Emory so-called ‘teaching’ medical students and residents how to take care of patients”.
  Because she is a medical student and he is a professor of medicine.
  
  So I had a teacher in HS that worked at NASA. Was I working alongside NASA scientists when I was 15?
  Furthermore, the article never specified that she was HIS student. They may have never interacted at all.
  I can accept she doesn't want to be affiliated in any way with Israel (good luck with that), but the title puts two sentences together where the first is false and the second is unrelated.
  A Palestinian American medical student objected to working alongside IDF soldiers. The university suspended her
  The title says working alongside IDF soldiers. It's not implying anything.
  I like how you ignore the second sentence though to make a false point
  
  I genuinely don't understand what point you are trying to make.
  He volunteered for the IDF. That makes him an IDF soldier.
  He's a Professor at her medical faculty. That means she has to work with him to get her degree.
  She refused to do that.
  The university suspended her.
  If NASA was in the habit of exploding babies, you'd've been well within your right to not want to have any contact with your HS teacher either.
  
  He's a Professor at her medical faculty. That means she has to work with him to get her degree.
  Maybe this is an English issue, but generally students learn from, not work with their teachers. But again, the article does not actually mention he is her professor, only that they are at the same school. We don't know that they have any interaction at this school.
  She refused to do that.
  The university suspended her.
  Except that's not why she was suspended. They suspended her for giving an interview where she calls out the professor for volunteering to provide medical services for the IDF. Since she was leading the campus protests, this was considered targeted harassment.
  The title is wrong and misleading. A more accurate title would be "University student suspended for outing a pro-Israel professor in interview", but i guess truth doesn't get clicks.
  
  Many students, specifically PhD students, also work for the university. I didn't say "work under", I said "work with", as in, work at the same faculty, i.e. they are coworkers.
  She called him out publicly for volunteering for a foreign military currently enacting a genocide. It's a big stretch to call that "outing" or "public harassment".
  And nowhere does the headline claim something different.
  
  What a strange hill to die on.
  No where in the article does it say they work at the same faculty. You simply do not know this to be true.
  She called him out publicly for volunteering for a foreign military currently enacting a genocide. It's a big stretch to call that "outing" or "public harassment".
  And nowhere does the headline claim something different.
  Except the headline does not say this.
  Any reasonable person reading the headline would think the university is forcing her to work with the IDF and suspended her for refusing.
  But like you just made my point for me, she was suspended for the calling out part.
  I don't agree she should have been suspended, but the headline is 100 percent false.
  
  You are twisting words beyond recognition here, and for what? The guy was an IDF soldier. How is that not "working along IDF soldiers"? It's not saying "working for the IDF", which seems to be your criterion.
  Next you're going to complain that it says soldiers, plural, I assume? That would at least be a valid criticism in your quest to... archive what, exactly?
  
  My comment is that the title is blatantly false.
  It's already a stretch to say volunteering medical services for the IDF makes you a soldier, and yes it's a lie to say she was forced to "work" with soldiers.
  But, let's give you the benefit and say is just semantics and the first part is accurate (it's not)
  The title is STILL blatantly false because the school did NOT suspend her for refusing to work with this professor. The (arguably unjustified) suspension is unrelated.

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