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Prominent UK Medical Journal: Letters from 'Israeli Academics' Not Welcome
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friends to like this.The once premier British medical journal The Lancet has, once again, engaged in an outrageous Blood Libel against Israel-- but, unlike its previous attacks on Israel, the journal has told an Israeli doctor that letters of rejoiner from "Israeli academics" will not be published.
In an article titled "An Open Letter for
the People of Gaza," it describes the violence between the terrorist
group Hamas and the Israeli Defense Forces in highly biased, inaccurate,
and defamatory ways. It was authored by Paola Manduca, Iain Chalmers,
Derek Summerfield, Mads Gilbert, and Swee Ang "on behalf of 24
signatories."
The Lancet has done this before—but this time, they will not
publish any genuinely scientific and medical letters of rejoinder. They have,
in fact, just rejected Dr. Boris Yoffe's letter. Professor Yoffee is the head
of the division of surgery at the "Barzilai" University Medical
Center in Ashkelon, in southern Israel. The
Lancet editors
told him that letters by "Israeli academics" are not welcome.
A
dangerous season of Orwellian censorship is upon us. I am reminded of
how swiftly German Christian physicians took over
all the German Psycho-analytic Societies which were formerly headed by Jewish
doctors--and of course, I remember Dr. Robert Jay Lifton's work on the Nazi doctors. Simply because someone has an
advanced degree of some kind or has won a Nobel Prize in no way inoculates
them from the most vulgar common prejudices.
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Monday, August 4, 2014
Prominent UK Medical Journal: Letters from 'Israeli Academics' Not Welcome
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