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Join Us The Noguchi Museum in New York City has terminated three gallery attendants who said they would not comply with a controversial new rule banning staff from wearing the Palestinian headscarves known as keffiyehs . A fourth worker, the director of Visitor Services, was also terminated during the fallout of the policy announcement. On Sunday, September 8, at least 60 people including former workers and supporters protested outside the Queens institution and handed out flyers to inform visitors of the ban, which has been billed by museum leadership as a dress code update prohibiting “political dress” that could make visitors feel “unsafe” or “uncomfortable.
” More than 50 staff members — two-thirds of the workforce — signed an internal petition calling for the policy’s reversal when it was first communicated in late August. “We are gathered here today to mourn a once great museum,” said former Noguchi Museum staffer Traso.