{"id":189811,"date":"2026-04-08T17:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189811\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:43:07","slug":"hateful-nyc-nurse-fired-over-antisemitic-attack-on-israeli-tourists-in-times-square","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/189811\/","title":{"rendered":"Hateful NYC nurse fired over antisemitic attack on Israeli tourists in Times Square"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New York City mental health nurse has been fired after she filmed herself harassing a group of Israeli men in Times Square \u2014 repeatedly calling them \u201cbaby killers\u201d and \u201cterrorists\u201d in a hate-filled antisemitic rant that only ended when a performer dressed as Spider-Man intervened.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Koonings, who worked at the Manhattan-based\u00a0Inspire Mental Health Services, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DWuiMOJkWrQ\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shared multiple videos<\/a> on Instagram of the moment she unleashed the wave of vile vitriol over the weekend as she tried to bait the group of unassuming men in the packed tourist hotspot. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou guys killed babies in Palestine\u2026 Slaughtered babies,\u201d Koonings shouted in one clip posted to her 141,000 Instagram followers.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Koonings, who worked at the Manhattan-based\u00a0Inspire Mental Health Services, shared multiple videos on Instagram of herself harassing a group of Israeli men in Times Square. Instagram \/ _jenniferkings<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t want you here, terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eventually, a panhandler dressed as Spider-Man had to step in to urge Koonings to back off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t need to harass people,\u201d Spidey told Koonings and several other women who were shouting hate along with her. \u201cYou don\u2019t know anything about them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re baby killers,\u201d Koonings raged to the imitation web-slinger. \u201cThey\u2019re f\u2013king Israelis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Koonings and her crazed crew even turned their hate on Spider-Man telling him to \u201cshut the f\u2013k up\u201d as he urged calm.<\/p>\n<p>In a second clip that seemingly preceded the ordeal, Koonings \u2014 who has a history of anti-Israel political activism \u2014 recorded herself asking the men where they were from. <\/p>\n<p>When they noted they were from Israel, Koonings off-camera response prompted one of the men to say, \u201cOh you don\u2019t like us now?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group, who were smoking and had suitcases nearby, remained calm and did not visibly react to the barrage of insults, the videos show. <\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t immediately clear what sparked Koonings\u2019 outburst or why she confronted the men in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Koonings later bragged on Instagram that she had been terminated from her role at the mental health provider in the wake of saga.  Instagram \/ _jenniferkings<\/p>\n<p>The footage quickly went viral on social media, sparking widespread calls for her to be fired. <\/p>\n<p>Koonings later bragged on Instagram that she had been terminated from her role at the mental health provider in the wake of saga. <\/p>\n<p>The woman\u2019s stunt got so out of hand even Spider-Man stepped in. Instagram \/ _jenniferkings<\/p>\n<p>Her biography on Inspire Mental Health Services had been scrubbed from the website as of Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The Post reached out to the facility but didn\u2019t hear back immediately.  <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York City mental health nurse has been fired after she filmed herself harassing a group of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3862,60,57,9,56,63,65,64,2027,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-189811","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-antisemitism","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-metro","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-ny","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-nyc-headlines","15":"tag-nyc-news","16":"tag-times-square","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}