An episode of the NBC medical drama Nurses has earned condemnation from the Simon Wiesenthal Center over a plot involving an Orthodox Jew who refuses a bone graft from a potentially "Arab" or "woman" donor.
The controversy has led NBC to pull the episode from all digital platforms and future airings. “The writers of this scene check all the boxes of ignorance and pernicious negative stereotypes right down to the name of the patient, Israel — payouts [sidelocks] and all," a statement reads.“In one scene, NBC has insulted and demonized religious Jews and Judaism." The scene — which aired Feb.
9 in an episode called "Achilles Heel" and was first called out by the website Jew in the City — features a young Orthodox Jew named Israel laid up in a.
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