A New York City mental health nurse has been fired after she filmed herself harassing a group of Israeli men in Times Square — repeatedly calling them “baby killers” and “terrorists” in a hate-filled antisemitic rant that only ended when a performer dressed as Spider-Man intervened.
Jennifer Koonings, who worked at the Manhattan-based Inspire Mental Health Services, shared multiple videos 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.
“You guys killed babies in Palestine… Slaughtered babies,” Koonings shouted in one clip as the group of men looked on.
“We don’t want you here, terrorists.”
Eventually, a panhandler dressed as Spider-Man had to step in to urge Koonings to back off.
“You don’t need to harass people,” Spidey told Koonings and several other women who were shouting hate along with her. “You don’t know anything about them.”
“They’re baby killers,” Koonings raged to the imitation web-slinger. “They’re f–king Israelis.”
Koonings and her crazed crew even turned their hate on Spider-Man telling him to “shut the f–k up” as he urged calm.
In a second clip that seemingly preceded the ordeal, Koonings — who has a history of anti-Israel political activism — recorded herself asking the men where they were from.
When they noted they were from Israel, Koonings off-camera response prompted one of the men to say, “Oh you don’t like us now?”
The group, who were smoking and had suitcases nearby, remained calm and did not visibly react to the barrage of insults, the videos show.
It wasn’t immediately clear what sparked Koonings’ outburst or why she confronted the men in the first place.
The footage quickly went viral on social media, sparking widespread calls for her to be fired.
Koonings later bragged on Instagram that she had been terminated from her role at the mental health provider in the wake of saga.
Her biography on Inspire Mental Health Services had been scrubbed from the website as of Wednesday.
The Post reached out to the facility but didn’t hear back immediately.
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