Midwife referred to the NMC and Prevent by her former NHS Trust for criticising Zionism and genocide.

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Please read and consider supporting this Midwife who was referred to the NMC and Prevent by her former NHS Trust employer for criticising Zionism, the occupation of and genocide against Palestinian people. The Trust are being influenced by UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), a pro-Israeli lobby group.

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/the-referrals-need-to-stop/?utm_source=sendinblue&utm_campaign=Update_2078,%203483]%20on%20The%20Referrals%20Need%20to%20Stop%20(August%2029,%202025)&utm_medium=email

I think the situation is more nuanced, Hamas’ actions were abhorrent, I don’t agree with Israel’s response. However even if you have a different viewpoint from fencesitter when you work for a public body it’s expected that you keep those opinions to yourself. As it could be assumed that your opinions reflect the institution that you work for.

Not at all. Someone who posts hell yeah on 8/10/23 and then refuses to remove it has no place working for the NHS

Is it not a concern of the lobbying of the Trust by UKLFI? The same organisation who required children’s art work to be removed from the children’s ward corridor?

I'm going to be honest, if I was Jewish and had jewish children and I had friends or acuitances between those hostages ( I read somewhere else they were some British Jewish between them) I wouldn't like seeing drawings which remind me the suffering of my friends.
I'm sure the drawings where lovely and gazan children are non guilty but the hospital shouldn't be seen as been pro palestinian or pro Israel.
Why not to put the drawings about local children from Chelsea about what they think about their local hospital? Or low income children from London ( im sure will be children from different ethnicities and religions ?) And I'm not being racist, I'm not even British.

I think that anyone in a public healthcare role has to be very careful not to advocate for anything that could potentially put people in her care in a position of distrust. Supporting the Palestinian people and calling out genocide is fine, celebrating the massacre of Israelis is borderline abhorrent, particularly as on 8.10.23 there had been no Israeli response, so she was very obviously cheering on the mass slaughter of civilians rather than calling out a genocide.

Nurses and midwives eat their own unfortunately.

NMC is not in anyway there for their registrants. They'd take a referral if a midwife or nurse was reported for breathing.

Absolutely it is a concern. Politics should be kept out of hospital spaces altogether.

Hospital artwork should be appealing to everyone who uses the service.

That said: you shouldn't air personal views whilst in role. I disagree with doing that. Particularly if it's a contentious current matter with controversy over "who's side you're on"

Would not sign this. She sounds vile. Who posts that the day after the Hamas attack? Horrible

As per the poster above, artwork from a local school or children’s centre would probably best reflect the local population who are likely to be using the service. Or an abstract but appealing design: animals, colours etc.

i mean, you might not agree with their aims but I don’t think there’s anything shadowy about UKLFI, they are transparent about what they do - or that they have disproportionate power, as might he be implied. The removal of the children’s artwork has obviously been controversial but looking at the reports, it does seem as though it was inadvertently political, although of course drawn by innocent children - and maybe the Trust should have considered a different location rather than where people of all backgrounds are receiving hospital treatment. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/27/artwork-gaza-schoolchildren-removed-chelsea-and-westminster-hospital

Good riddance.
We don’t need racists in the NHS.
Anyone crowing that they are ‘anti Zionist’ is denying the right of Israel to even exist.

Unfortunately this.

I'm currently being investigated for not doing something that isn't my role. (Ie. For not doing something that I'm not supposed to do)
The stress is unreal.

The NMC do not stand for nurses and are complicit in the deaths of some they investigate with no cause.

I am sorry this is happening to you.

No will not sign
Her behaviour has potentially caused pg women and their families to feel unsafe, marginalised and got at
She had a code of ethics and in job training that should have guided her online posts

"One plate showed the Dome of the Rock, a site in Jerusalem of religious significance to Muslims and Jews, with a Palestinian flag. Another, featuring the Palestinian fishing industry, was accompanied by a text referring to the shoreline of Palestine running from Gaza’s border with Egypt to Israel’s border with Lebanon. Since 1948, most of the shoreline has been in the state of Israel.".

They weren't innocent drawings, they were political. I thought they will be flowers, animals etc. You can see how palestinian children are brainwashed when they draw those things. My DD drwa flowers, animals, herself and our family etc... not political things.

Jeez, I didn’t know about the tweet and posted naively trusting the face value

No, im not supporting your cause Fatimah

Cultural safety lead has responsibility to ensure all individuals who could potentially be marginalised or ostracised are not exposed to institutional or individual prejudice or discrimination. Her hell yeah posts are provocative,discriminatory and prejudicial to Jewish patients and their families. As an employee in a safeguarding role one wouldn’t expect her to exhibit such odious views. Pregnancy. And Birth is a scary vulnerable time you’re literally in someone else hands. This seems very faux surprise and indignation- as a lead midwife she will have known the remit and boundaries of her role

Well this isn’t going quite how you’d hope. majority say they won’t sign
Cultural safety lead should advocate for all women. Advocate for women who are routinely and institutionally excluded eg BAME women have statistically higher mortality rate and experience higher rate birth trauma . She brought her role into disrepute her scope of good practice was compromised.shes made women feel unsafe

can you not see why she’s facing this sanction?

Why are you only processing thoughts now? Why not when you posted the
link and effusive support for her.What checks or processing did you do before supporting & posting

So she can have more views into this chat so more opportunity of people giving money to her cause

Yes, I’m starting to see why and I’m glad to have started this thread.

The tweet is problematic though I can imagine as a Palestinian/supporter the circa 8000 people killed in the conflict at the hands of Israel up to 2022 evidences one’s desire to ‘resist’. Hammas action is however inexcusable.

Because I’ve been existing in an echo chamber.

Asking for money to support an individual when you don’t understand the whole situation? Initially effusive in support but then agreeing the hell yeah post on 8/10 was poor taste. It’s a poorly thought out post. @Solidarityformidwife Hasn’t demonstrated any understanding of professional responsibility or CSL role and is asking strangers to financially support this woman legal case