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NBC Pulls Controversial 'Nurses' Episode From Digital, Future Airings Amid Backlash Over Orthodox Jew Storylin - Hollywood Reporter
Feb 25, 2021 1 min, 25 secs

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.".

Elsewhere, B'nai Brith Canada has demanded action over the episode. “The disturbing stereotypes present in this episode of Nurses are deeply damaging to Jews, especially Orthodox practitioners,” says Michael Mostyn, CEO of B’nai Brith Canada, in a statement.

The Toronto-set Nurses is a Canadian series that was picked up by NBC in late 2020 amid a shortage of original programming due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The anti-Jewish controversy comes in the wake of another issue involving NBC, after Saturday Night Live's Michael Che recently joked, "Israel is reporting that they’ve vaccinated half of their population. I’m going to guess it’s the Jewish half.".

The comment led the Anti-Defamation League to issue a statement saying it had been monitoring the "Weekend Update" segment, which had "inappropriately used Jews as the punchline" on repeat occasions.

NBC has responded to the Nurses controversy by pulling the episode from digital platforms and canceling all future airings, according to sources with knowledge of the matter.

While the network is in conversation with various Jewish groups, it has no plans to issue a statement condemning the episode.

The season finale of Nurses aired Feb.

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