This is the account of an ongoing appeal initiated in 2009 by 725 doctors from 43 countries concerning medical complicity with torture in Israel. It has been underpinned by a voluminous and still accumulating evidence base from reputable international and regional human rights organisations, quoted below, and has spanned the terms of office of four World Medical Association (WMA) presidencies and two UN special rapporteurs on torture. This campaign has been a litmus test of whether international medical codes regarding doctors and torture actually matter, and are applied rigorously and even-handededly, particularly when compelling evidence incriminates a WMA member association. Our findings in the case of Israel suggest that this is not true, and that impunity largely operates. The WMA seems in partisan violation of its mandate to be the official international watchdog on the ethical behaviour of doctors. And as the IMA case demonstrates, by their inaction national medical associations or other regulatory bodies appear to function at base as buttresses and shields of the state.All data relevant to the study are included in the article.
Category: Israel
Israel’s Defenders Are Funding a New Effort to Defeat Socialists in New York
In a sign of how unnerved New York’s political establishment is by the Democratic Socialists of America, a pro-Israel group has been founded specifically to undermine DSA candidates. Its very existence is an admission of Israel’s defenders’ weakness.
Source: Israel’s Defenders Are Funding a New Effort to Defeat Socialists in New York
Israel atrocity
‘Blatant Murder’: Al Jazeera Accuses Israel of Killing Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
“We pledge to prosecute the perpetrators legally, no matter how hard they try to cover up their crime, and bring them to justice,” the media network said in a statement.
Source: ‘Blatant Murder’: Al Jazeera Accuses Israel of Killing Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
US Double Standard on Display in Tepid Response to Israel’s Theft of Palestinian Land
Israel: ethnic cleansing, war crimes
Israel lobby group affirms trend– 22% of younger Jews don’t want a Jewish state – Mondoweiss
Nearly half of millennial American Jews don’t feel very connected to Israel and 22.5 percent believe that there should be one “bi-national” state in Israel and Palestine, according to the American Jewish Committee.
Source: Israel lobby group affirms trend– 22% of younger Jews don’t want a Jewish state – Mondoweiss