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Medical campaign: More on Israel’s ongoing actions to destroy Gaza’s health system
As Israel, backed openly by the Donald Trump’s government in Washington, moves to try and ethnically cleanse Gaza, the Guardian reports on Israel’s targeting of Gaza’s health workers. 6 March 2025 The doctors detained in Gaza: ‘He was dragged from the operating theatre’ – podcast https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2025/mar/03/the-doctors-detained-in-gaza-he-was-dragged-from-the-operating-theatre-podcast Doctors in Gaza say they have been targeted for…
Medical campaign: Israel pursues genocide by detaining, torturing, neglecting Palestinian medical personnel
5 March 2025 As this report from The Guardian describes, Israel has detained, tortured and allowed to suffer and die from deliberate neglect large numbers of doctors, nurses and other medical personnel from Gaza. The decision to leave Gazans without medical care is part and parcel of Israel’s genocidal policy. The Israel Medical Association (IMA),…
Medical Campaign: Israel Medical Association (IMA) silent amidst reports of severe Palestinian prisoner mistreatment
5 March 2025 The following is a damning report from Truthout on the condition of Palestinians released in exchange for Israeli hostages in Gaza. As Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor writes: “[T]he atrocities occurring in these prisons are among the worst violations recorded by human rights organizations worldwide. [Torture] is a part of Israel’s crime of…
Medical campaign: Israel accused of stealing organs for profit from dead Palestinians
23 February 2025 Mondoweiss publishes this important report from Healthcare Workers for Palestine drawing upon reliable sources for the claim that Israel continues its long documented practice of stealing organs – for profit – from Palestinian corpses in their possession. A brief history of Israel’s theft and trafficking of Palestinian organs There are over three…
Medical campaign: the need for the Palestinian perspective and leadership in Gaza health system reconstruction
18 February 2025 This article in Conflict and Health sets out a comprehensive critique of the supposedly “neutral” approach that has been widely circulated.
Medical campaign: Trauma care in Gaza supported through global telemedicine
18 February 2025 This important article from The Lancet describes the assistance provided to surgeons in Gaza from medical experts elsewhere via telemedicine.
Sign the petition! British academic is facing a criminal charge in Berlin for expressing solidarity with Palestinians
27 January 2025 Dror Dayan, an Israeli-born academic with German citizenship who teaches at John Moores University in Liverpool, is facing a criminal charge in Berlin for allegedly expressing support for terrorism, based on a two-year old social media message. This is a frankly outrageous misuse of the courts and denial of his freedom of…
Success at the University of Sussex: Academic Boycott in Action
18 December 2024 The decision of the University of Sussex to host a joint conference with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on its campus was an act of breathtaking insensitivity. The conference, on “Displacement, Forced Migration and Reparation: Comparisons and Controversies”, co-organized by the Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex and the…
500+ international academics petition St Andrews University to reverse decision to silence Rector over criticism of Israel’s Gaza assault
15 December 2024 In November 2023 Stella Maris took office as the Rector of the University of St Andrews, elected by its students. Maris emailed students about the events following from 7 October including Hamas’ terrorist actions and Israel’s genocidal response, and called for a ceasefire. As invariably happens in these situations, one or more…