I am a US citizen & Surgeon who took care of the Boston Maraton Bombing victims in 2013. I paid for 7 years to own a small apartment in downtown #Beirut for my 3 kids to enjoy summers there. Today, #Israel reduced my dream home to rubble, with american weapons, paid by my taxes.
Exactly two years ago, the University of Ottawa suspended me from my medical residency training in public health because of social media posts in support of Palestinian human rights. They framed my social media posts as “unprofessional”. The irony being that I studied the impacts of settler colonialism on health in Palestine during my public health training. They messed with the wrong person.
They later reinstated me, without any apology, so I left their racist institution to put my time and energy to places and people who actually deserve it. It’s been a year since I filed a human rights complaint against the university, and they continue to try to dismiss the case with frivolous motions with factual inaccuracies, but the court seems to acknowledge the value in hearing the case. It is blatant discrimination on basis of anti-Palestinian racism. I’m taking them (and the faculty member who doxxed me) to a provincial human rights tribunal to seek accountability and justice.
To anyone else who is facing similar forms of repression for solidarity with Palestine - remember you are on the right side of history. To stand against genocide is the most decent and moral position to take. To oppose genocide as a healthcare worker is the most professional position to take. Keep your head held high. The institutions will come around when there is no political or economic cost to oppose genocide. Until then, we will keep persisting and pushing back against bullies and racist institutions. Free Palestine, from the river to the sea.
I’ll never forget how people rushed to relentlessly deny that Israel attacked al Shifa hospital almost two years ago. It had to be a misfire, had to be an accident, rocket rebound. Now, Israelis have destroyed every hospital, abduct and torture medical personell, and cause famine
Israel, USA, UK and EU are starving Gaza.
Israel, USA, UK and EU are starving Gaza.
Israel, USA, UK and EU are starving Gaza.
Israel, USA, UK and EU are starving Gaza.
Israel, USA, UK and EU are starving Gaza.
Israel, USA, UK and EU are starving Gaza.
The 12-day US-Israeli war on Iran seems to have accomplished nothing other than distracting the world from the fact that we continue to starve Gaza and have carried out massacres of dozens of people seeking aid from the GHF almost every single day since June 13
As usual, all the violent harassment and abuse that Zionists fantasize about happening to them, only ever seems actually to happen to Palestinians and their supporters. The manufactured crisis you hear about in mainstream news vs the actual crisis unfolding in front of your eyes.
With these drones coming in at $33M a pop, the American military just set fire to over $120M of public funding in 2 wks fighting a country 7000 miles away on behalf of Israel.
Just in case you still wondered why this country never has money for anything for ourselves.
Rumeysa was kidnapped in plain sight & sent to Louisiana to be locked in the same detention center Mahmoud Khalil was sent to.
She's a peaceful protestor, grad student, & my constituent who has a right to free speech & due process.
Now she's a political prisoner. Free her now.