Doctors overwhelmingly tell professional body to end links because of genocide and infiltration of pro-Israel spyware firm into NHS
In a series of motions to their ‘Annual Reps Meeting’ conference in Liverpool, doctors have voted overwhelmingly to instruct their trade union, the British Medical Association (BMA), to break off relations with the Israel Medical Association (IMA), and to seek its suspension from the World Medical Association (WMA).
The five motions passed, by large majorities, were as follows:
• oppose the government’s adoption of the data platform created and run by Palantir, a genocide-supporting US firm whose bosses have boasted of killing people, throughout the NHS
• affirm that criticism of Israel is not antisemitic
• oppose the victimisation of medical students and healthcare workers who have advocated for Palestine
• condemn the destruction of healthcare services and the killing of healthcare workers in Gaza, demand the immediate release of detained HCWs in Gaza; and urge the UK government to support the ICC and ICJ in holding accountable those guilty of war crimes, including Israeli doctors who have participated in or supported torture of Palestinians in Israeli jails.
• suspend engagement with the Israeli Medical Association until it affirms medical neutrality and condemns attacks on healthcare in Gaza.
The BMA said the numerous motions on Palestine reflected “the grave concerns that doctors in the UK have about the Gaza conflict”.
The conference is the BMA’s sovereign authority and mandates the organisation’s policy.
In November 2023, a large number of Israeli doctors signed a letter calling for the destruction of the al Shifa hospital and other hospitals in Gaza, supporting Israel’s lie that the hospitals were ‘Hamas command centres’. The Israeli group Doctors for Human Rights condemned the letter; the IMA took no action against the genocidal doctors.
Arab-Jewish writer Alon Mizrahi said of the BMA motions that:
This could be the biggest win for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement in 25 years. This is really huge.
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Most welcome, and not before time.
Other professions/sectors take note.
Anyone watching pmqs?
rachel theeves looks like she’s had a good whinge…puffy, red eyes. Not too enthusiastic with her cheering neither…
Summits gone on…
Thought so too. Making a big effort.
Well…when asked by badenoch at the dispatch box, keef refused to back reeves.
Bbc news making a story of it too.
Hopefully, it’s…
https://youtu.be/jVavtX80m3Q?si=Kq_v6uOxDsZkfyG9
Well done BMA!
Hypocratic Oath: “Do no harm.”
If any readers out there get prescriptions you can ask your GP/Chemist not to have your tablets sourced from Israeli drugs companies like TEVA as a matter of social conscience, as you support BDS and they are profiting and aiding Israel as Israel according to Harvard has slaughtered 400,000 Palestinians!
A “Reeves” was the term for one who served the Lord of The Manor so there we have it “The Bosses Comrade” by name & nature!
“……and urge the UK government to support the ICC and ICJ in holding accountable those guilty of war crimes…..”
Given that this same Government and the personnel which make up that Government – along with the previous Government and its personnel – have been actively aiding, abetting and supporting those war crimes the reality is that the only way that is going to happen is if citizens in the UK forcibly apprehend the individuals which make up this and the previous Government, along with their paymasters, who have chosen to commit those war crimes and personally hand them over to a jurisdiction which recognises and practices due process and the rule of law.
Which, given the number of so called ‘International’ bodies and agencies which are very clearly captured by Western oligarch interests, that might not necessarily be The Hague.