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Pulitzer winner Jhumpa Lahiri declines award over New York museum’s keffiyeh ban By Reuters
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Pulitzer winner Jhumpa Lahiri declines award over New York museum’s keffiyeh ban By Reuters

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By Tycoon Herald 2 Min Read Published September 26, 2024
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By Kanishka Singh

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Pulitzer Prize successful writer Jhumpa Lahiri declined to just accept an award from New York Metropolis’s Noguchi Museum after it fired three workers for sporting keffiyeh head scarves, an emblem of Palestinian solidarity, following an up to date gown code.

“Jhumpa Lahiri has chosen to withdraw her acceptance of the 2024 Isamu Noguchi Award in response to our updated dress code policy,” the museum stated in a press release on Wednesday.

“We respect her perspective and understand that this policy may or may not align with everyone’s views.” Lahiri obtained the Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for her e-book “Interpreter of Maladies.”

The New York Occasions first reported the information.

The world over, in protesters demanding an finish to Israel’s struggle in Gaza have worn the black-and-white keffiyeh head scarf, an emblem of Palestinian self-determination.

Anti apartheid South African chief Nelson Mandela was additionally seen sporting the headscarf on many events.

Israel’s supporters, alternatively, say it alerts backing extremism.

In November, three college students of Palestinian descent in Vermont have been shot in an assault. Two have been sporting the keffiyeh.

Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza has killed tens of hundreds and displaced practically everybody there. It adopted a lethal assault by Palestinian Hamas militants on Israel on Oct. 7.

Final month, the artwork museum – based by Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi – introduced a coverage prohibiting workers from sporting something that expressed “political messages, slogans or symbols.” Three workers have been sacked.

Pulitzer winner Jhumpa Lahiri declines award over New York museum’s keffiyeh ban By Reuters

Different folks in america have additionally misplaced their jobs attributable to their stance on the Israel-Gaza struggle.

A New York Metropolis hospital fired a Palestinian American nurse in Could after she referred to as Israel’s actions in Gaza a “genocide” throughout an acceptance speech for an award. Israel denies genocide prices introduced by South Africa on the World Court docket.

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