🍉🚨 🍉🚨 UCSF (@ucsfhealth) is retaliating against a healthcare worker for standing with Palestine.
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Bridget Rochios is a nurse practitioner and midwife who UCSF targeted immediately with suspension upon returning from a month-long medical mission at a Emirati Maternity Hospital in Rafah, Gaza, where she assisted Palestinian healthcare workers care for birthing people and their newborns during the major Israeli military offensive invasion of Rafah.
After nine months of being on administrative leave, UCSF has issued a notice of intent to fire Bridget for refusing to remove a watermelon pin on her badge. UCSF is using false accusations of antisemitism to stifle dissent and sow fear and division, naming the watermelon, a symbol of valuing Palestinian life, “antisemitic.”
Firing a dedicated provider over a pin bearing a fruit is not just an attack on her; it is a chilling message to all UCSF employees and trainees that their commitment to justice and patient advocacy makes them disposable. This kind of institutional repression creates a hostile work and learning environment where healthcare workers do not feel safe standing by their ethical obligations.
We must speak out in support of those targeted by Zionist repression!
Send a letter to UCSF’s Chancellor demanding Bridget’s reinstatement and an end to their complicity in genocide. By sending a letter, your name will also be added to the petition.
