A group of 71 doctors in the United Kingdom are pressuring the World Medical Association to remove the Israeli Medical Association (IMA) from the global body’s membership, an IMA representative said at the Israeli Knesset this week.The Simon Wiesenthal Center wrote to the head of the WMA with concern that such an initiative filled with lies could occur.
“The professional British journals have adopted the idea of letters to the editor that libel Israeli doctors,” Dr. Ze’ev Feldman, IMA’s chairman, said Jan. 20 during a Knesset Science and Technology Committee meeting, Israel National News reported. “They claim our doctors perform medical torture on Palestinian patients.”
Although the response from the head of the WMA was written diplomatically, the tone seems to indicate that he considers the BDSers to be irritating jerks.
Just as with BDS resolutions on college campuses, and international forums that Palestinians try to flood with anti-Israel initiatives, these haters just want to make it appear that there is a groundswell of opposition to Israel - and they are upsetting the members who hate to see their institutions hijacked by these bigots.
UPDATE: Here are the 71 doctors (plus Jenny Tonge):
> Dr Chris Burns-Cox Physician Wotton-under-Edge (lead signatory)
> Sir Iain Chalmers James Lind Library Oxford
> Baroness Tonge House of Lords London
> Dr Pauline Cutting OBE Emergency Medicine Consultant Bangor
> Professor Sami Timimi Child Psychiatry Lincoln
> Dr Ben Alofs General Practice Bangor
> Dr Derek Summerfield Psychiatry London (convenor)
> Dr Swee Ang Orthopaedic Surgery London
> Dr Zeyn Green-Thompson Psychiatry Cambridge
> Dr Mostafa Mohanna Psychiatry Lincoln
> Dr David Halpin Orthopaedics & Trauma Newton Abbot
> Dr Philip Thomas Psychiatrist Hebden Bridge
> Dr Tia MacGregor General Practice Oxford
> Dr Sukaina Hirji General Practice Watford
> Dr Alex Scott-Samuel Public Health Liverpool
> Dr Daniel McQueen Psychiatry London
> Dr Tom Gilberthorpe Psychiatrist London
> Dr Maha Elias Anaesthetist Weston Super Mare
> Prof. Marco Chiesa Psychiatry London
> Dr Chris Evans Psychiatry London
> Dr Alison Payne General Practice Coventry
> Dr Numan Shah Trauma & Orthopaedics Leeds
> Dr Suman Fernando Psychiatry London
> Dr Kamilia El-Farra Gynaecologist Bishops Stortford
> Dr Nik Husain Anaesthetist Kingston-Upon-Thames
> Dr Pam Wortley General Practice Sunderland
> Dr Catherine Houghton Respiratory Medicine Bury
> Dr Sonia Allam Anaesthetist Larbert
> Dr Nuri Gene-Cos Psychiatry London
> Dr Suheib Abukmeil Psychiatry Northampton
> Dr A Ravalia Anaesthetist Kingston-upon-Thames
> Dr Ala Jebreel Ears, Nose, Throat Sheffield
> Dr Maged Agour Psychiatry Doncaster
> Dr Assaddullah Reha Psychiatry London
> Dr Coral Jones General Practice London
> Dr Brian Robinson Psychiatry Milton Keynes
> Dr Charles Essex Paediatrics Leamington Spa
> Dr Colin McKean General Practice Liverpool
> Dr Tim Paine General Practice Bristol
> Dr Felicity de Zulueta Psychiatry London
> Dr Walid Abdul-Hamed Psychiatry Chelmsford
> Dr Sushrut Jadhav Psychiatry London
> Dr Katy Briffa Psychiatry Tavistock
> Dr Rhodri Huws Psychiatry Sheffield
> Dr Duaa Saeed-Chesterman Histopathology London
> Dr Khalil Hossenbux Internal Medicine London
> Dr Sylia Chandler General Practice Evesham
> Dr Jo Moncrieff Psychiatry London
> Dr Mamdouh El-Adl Psychiatry Northampton
> Dr Tomasz Pierscionek Psychiatry Newcastle
> Dr Neil Wellappili Psychiatry London
> Dr Rukyya Hasssan Psychiatry Manchester
> Dr Aneesa Peer Psychiatry London
> Dr Tessa Harris Population Health Research Institute Reading
> Dr Musa Sami Psychiatry Kent
> Dr Ghada Karmi Public Health London
> Dr Eric Windgassen Psychiatry Manchester
> Dr Bob Johnson Psychiatry Isle of Wight
> Dr Sandra Oelbaum General Practice Liverpool
> Dr M Makhdum Psychiatry Colchester
> Dr Jane Hamilton Perinatal Psychiatry Stirling
> Dr Ian Kerr Psychiatry Stirling
> Dr Roger Allen Dermatology Nottingham
> Dr Stephen Ginn Psychiatry London
> Dr Norbert Andersch Psychiatry/Neurology London
> Dr Carine Minne Forensic Psychiatry London
> Dr Betty Gordon Surgery London
> Dr Hisham Al-Qassab Physician London
> Dr Anna Livingstone GP/medicolegal reporting London
> Dr Estela Welldon Forensic Psychiatry London
> Dr Brian Martindale Psychiatry Newcastle
(h/t Spotlighting)
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