NBC Pulls 'Nurses' Episode Over Orthodox Jew Storyline Backlash

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Deadline reported, was pulled from the network’s digital platforms as Jewish organizations criticized a scene in which an Orthodox Jewish character named Israel refuses a bone graft for his leg during a hospital stay.“The graft, where does it come from?” the character asks before a medical pro explains the graft would be “harvested from a deceased donor” so that he would be able to “walk again.”“A dead goyim leg … from an Arab, a woman,” the patient’s father says in the clip, to which a nurse

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.

Ellise Shafer administratorNBC has removed the “Nurses” episode “Achilles Heels” from digital platforms and future airings following backlash over a storyline involving a man from the Orthodox Jewish community.The episode of the Canadian sitcom, which aired Feb. 9, contains a scene in which a young Orthodox Jewish man named Israel is hospitalized for a shattered leg.

NBC is pulling the season finale of its Canadian import Nurses from its digital platforms amid backlash from national Jewish organizations regarding a scene they accuse of being anti-Semitic.