Mohammad interviewed with Democracy Now! on April 26, 2024, about the encampment and called out Emory faculty for enabling Israel’s genocide. During the interview, she referred to an IDF soldier-physician who works at Emory without naming the him. She said that this individual “aided and abetted in a genocide, aided and abetted in the destruction of the healthcare system in Gaza, and in the murder of over 400 healthcare workers, and is now back at Emory, so-called teaching medical students and residents how to take care of patients.”

This soldier-physician, Dr. Joshua H. Winer, is an Associate Professor in the Division of Surgical Oncology, Department of Surgery at Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Winer discussed his experience serving in the IDF in a Times of Israel article.

On June 17, 2024, Mohammad received an email from the Dean of Medical Education Affairs stating that she had been accused of violating the Emory code of student conduct in connection with the interview she gave on Democracy Now!. She was suspended for violating Emory’s code of conduct requiring “professionalism” and “respect.” During her conduct hearing in November, she detailed the suspension, saying, “All three of [the complainants] advocated for my expulsion. All three of them advocated that I should never be able to practice medicine.” Mohammad quickly appealed the suspension, but her appeal was rejected.

“In a world where so much Palestinian flesh has been taken off the planet, has been stolen from the world, how can I deliver even an ounce for them to take?” Mohammad said. “I decided, even if I knew I was going to lose the hearing, I was going to fight. I was going to fight for my right to be a medical student, fight for my right to speak the truth, and my right to expose the genocide of my people and the ways medical institutions are complicit in it.”

One of the professors of medicine we have at Emory recently went to serve as a volunteer medic in the Israeli Offense Force and recently came back.

This man participated in aiding and abetting a genocide, in aiding and abetting the destruction of the healthcare system in Gaza and the murder of over 400 healthcare workers, and is now back at Emory so-called teaching medical students and residents how to take care of patients.