A microbiologist at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, known as “WokeScientist” on her Instagram account, took to her social media page to defend Hamas for the terrorist network’s barbaric attack on Israelis.
Dr. Ayesha Khan, a VUMC resident and clinical fellow in microbiology in the Department of Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology, insisted on her Instagram page that “a ceasefire is not enough.” She demands “an end to the settler colonial occupation of Palestine, an end to the siege of Gaza, an end to the occupation.”
“If you care about social justice, equity, liberation in any form — then support the Palestinian push for total liberation by any means necessary,” the woke microbiologist wrote. “The oppressed deserve to resist their oppressors by any means necessary.”
“Quite frankly, the opinions of privileged people who don’t have to experience the brutality that Palestinians are faced with … don’t matter. But I assure you, this is what you would you if you were in their shoes,” Khan posted.
Dr. Ayesha Khan, a resident at @VUMChealth celebrated the attacks on Israel. She claimed Hamas deserves to “resist.. by any means necessary” and posted a photo of paragliders representing the Hamas terrorists who paraglided into Israel and murdered over 1,400 people, raped,… pic.twitter.com/v7msSQS7A9
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A spokeswoman for Vanderbilt University Medical Center told The Tennessee Star that the healthcare provider is aware of the posts but is not commenting on a personnel matter.
Khan’s Instagram page is filled with anti-Israel rhetoric, including promoting an “All Out for Palestine” Rally and Vigil slated for 4-7 p.m. Sunday in Nashville.
According to her LinkedIn page:
Dr. Ayesha Khan is a Clinical Microbiologist and Infectious Diseases Scientist specializing in Antimicrobial Resistance and Diagnostics; a grassroots community organizer, writer, art activist, and abolitionist educator decoding the science of social justice and collectivism. Ayesha is the innovator behind Abolitionist Science- a novel field that deploys research-driven scientific strategies to abolish capitalist carceral systems while simultaneously constructing equitable community-led systems from healthcare, public safety to education.
Ayesha advocacy focuses on combatting carceral systems, building a framework for educational equity, decolonizing healthcare and biomedical research, movements for Black and Palestinian liberation, minority rights in South Asia, and migrant worker rights in the Middle East among others. She is also an educator and mentor with expertise in global racial health disparities, racial justice in medicine, decolonized mental health, abolitionist theory & praxis, neurodiversity through a social justice lens, childhood trauma and complex-PTSD, neocolonialism and decolonized geopolitics.”
On her Instagram page, Khan asserts, “My views & opinions are only my own and not reflective of my employer.” She claims she has faced “suppression of all forms” for talking about Palestine — “targeted attacks, surveillance, death threats, physical assaults or zionists going after my job asking me to be fired etc. which is all happening now again.”
As of Friday, Khan appears to remain employed at VUMC.
She insists that what is happening in Gaza is “genocide, extermination & ethnic cleansing.”
What the woke scientist doesn’t note are the 1,400-plus Israelis tortured, raped, murdered, and the scores of hostages that her Hamas “freedom fighters” claimed in their surprise October 7 terrorist attacks on Israel. She doesn’t note that The Hamas Charter, or the Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement, supported by many Palestinians, calls for obliteration or dissolution of Israel.
“Ayesha guides people in their journey to cope with and divest from capitalist and colonial systems… Ayesha is an Afro-Indian, nonbinary (any pronouns), queer, Hindu-Muslim-Animist,” wrote Robby Starbuck, a music video director and former congressional candidate on his X account.
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M.D. Kittle is the National Political Editor for The Star News Network.
Photo “Ayesha Khan” by Ayesha Khan.
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What is her place of birth? Is she a Palestinian?
Typical of the riffraff employed by all branches of Vanderbilt.
I suppose she supports Hamas “by any means necessary”here too? No doubt she also supports draconian gun control for us.
This woman who Vanderbilt makes exceptions for & supports, is not familiar with how Hamas oppresses the Palestinians. It was bad enough that the Vanderbilt Board allowed child mutilation surgeries, now they are fine with Terrorism. Vanderbilt just keeps lowering its standards more & more. An institution I was so proud of has become something so disturbing. Do the Board Members allow in their policies & procedures (DEI) anyone to be outspoken on Support of Terrorists, or just certain skin colors? Palestinians elected Hamas ( a Terrorist proxy for Iran) to govern Palestine. It is not a legitimate state & never should be.
I wouldn’t allow my child to get treatment or an “Education ” from WOKE VANDERBILT. She should be fired & I would encourage her to move to Rashida Talib’s District, or offer her great intelligence to the Terrorists in Gaza. She would be forced to submit to their radical Ideology or get her damn head cut off after she is ruthlessly raped & paraded throught streets naked in Palestine. What a Goof Ball!!!
She doesn’t make Vanderbilt look very smart. It does show that Vanderbilt has bought into the distrurbing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion which is MARXISM. It destroys Common Sense.
This is what is on her Instagram header.
Note she is a proclaimed anarchist. Why in the world would VUMC hire this women you ask? Well VUMC is completely infected (see what I did there) with diversity… even anarchists are ok in the name of diversity.
Dr Ayesha Khan═طبیبہ عائشہ خان
she/they/he
Writer
Anarchist, Abolitionist Clinical Microbiologist🦠Land Defender🌱Ecologist & Healer Decolonizing Medicine〰️Building Community Care
maybe her talent would be better served living and teaching in gaza.
So, am I the only one seeing similarities between the “struggle” of the Palestinians and the “struggle” of “people of color” against “Systematic Racism?”
sounds like she has doctor privilege, thinking her opinion matters more than anyone else’s.
Since Vandy is all-in on child mutilations, why would this bother them? If they are receiving ANY federal funding, it should end, STAT.
When, exactly, is she a microbiologist for Vanderbilt? That should be a question that her employer asks!
Me thinks she is a bit misguided. Maybe a trip to Palestine so she can hold a conference with Hamas leadership, so she can share all her views with them, is in order. I wonder how she’d fare?
I wonder if her stance on carceral systems denounces or supports hostage taking – she seems to support it, based upon her posts.
Hostage taking, rape, torture, murdering of parents in front of children (talk about childhood trauma and complex PTSD), are all things her post seems to support.
sickening!