Opinion | The Gaza Protest at the Cancer Hospital

As if blocking the Brooklyn Bridge or the tunnel into Manhattan weren’t alienating enough to the average New Yorker, pro-Palestinian activists held a raucous march on Monday that included shouting accusations of “genocide” at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Seriously, that actually happened.

“MSK, shame on you / you support genocide, too,” the crowd yelled, according to video circulating online. A leader with a microphone called the cancer center “another complicit institution,” and urged the protesters: “Make sure they hear you! They’re in the windows!” They, meaning, cancer patients? Cancer doctors? Cancer nurses?