Dr Paul Keleman<\/p>\n
The campaign against medical complicity with Israel\u2019s torture of Palestinians is \u2018the best thing I have done in my career\u2019, a senior academic psychiatrist told his audience in Sheffield at a meeting organised by Palestine Solidarity Campaign.<\/p>\n
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Dr.Derek Summerfield has led a campaign to hold to account the medical professions\u2019 cynical disregard of its most sacred ethic, \u2018First do no harm\u2019. He has helped to expose that members of the Israeli medical profession have been participating for decades in assisting and covering up the torture of Palestinian prisoners and, still worse, that the organisations which are meant to oversee that the medical profession upholds its professed ethical conduct and international humanitarian law, have turned a blind eye.<\/p>\n
In 2016, 71 UK-based doctors made a fresh appeal to the UN\u2019s World Medical Association (WMA) to act. This time, The submission pointed to the 2011 Physicians for Human Rights-Israel report, Doctoring the Evidence, Abandoning the Victim: the Involvement \u00a0of the Medical Professionals in Torture and Ill treatment in Israel. <\/i>\u00a0<\/a>The report detailed the work of Israeli doctors in security units where torture of detainees was routine.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The WMA did not respond. \u00a0The British Medical Association\u2019s leadership has responded by exonerating the Israeli Medical Association for failure to act over its members participation in torture. \u2018Unfortunately,\u2019 Derek notes, \u00a0\u2018as the case with Israel illustrates, the WMA seems unwilling to act against those with powerful friends like the US. It is far less hesitant in raising concerns with other less powerful countries like\u00a0Iran\u00a0or\u00a0Bahrain, to name but two.\u2019<\/p>\n See Derek Summerfield\u2019s article on the battle against the medical establishment\u2019s collusion in the torture of Palestinian prisoners:<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr Paul Keleman The campaign against medical complicity with Israel\u2019s torture of Palestinians is \u2018the best thing I have done in my career\u2019, a senior academic psychiatrist told his audience in Sheffield at a meeting organised by Palestine Solidarity Campaign. Dr.Derek Summerfield has led a campaign to hold to account the medical professions\u2019 cynical … Continue reading Dr Summerfield’s talk on Israeli Torture<\/span>