NEW YORK – SABA: The Noguchi Museum in New York City has dismissed three employees for violating the dress code by wearing a keffiyeh, a symbol of solidarity with the Palestinian cause.
"The museum acknowledges that the placement of the keffiyeh is intended to convey personal beliefs. However, it also understands that such expressions might unintentionally isolate portions of our diverse audience," the museum stated.
The museum, established by Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi, recently implemented a policy that prohibits employees from wearing attire that displays political messages, slogans, or symbols.
Natalie Capellini, one of the three dismissed employees, stated that the museum's leadership wielded the term "political" as a weapon against the Palestinian cause.
The keffiyeh has long been a symbol of the Palestinian cause. During global protests calling for an end to the conflict in the Gaza Strip, demonstrators often wear the Palestinian keffiyeh.
Since the onset of the conflict in Gaza, numerous individuals in the United States have been dismissed from their jobs due to their pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel positions.
Since the war began more than 11 months ago, protests have erupted around the world.
American and European universities witnessed the most prominent of these protests demanding an end to the war on the Gaza Strip and an end to the export of weapons to the Zionist entity.
With absolute American support, the Zionist enemy has been waging a devastating war in Gaza since the seventh of last October, which has left more than 136,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than ten thousand missing, amid massive destruction and deadly famine.