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I tried to attend the @OntariosDoctors annual general meeting tonight in Ottawa, and was removed from the room by members of their executive team Sandy Zidaric and Adam Farber because I wore my watermelon pin that I’ve worn countless times without issue in many spaces including on parliament hill. They cited the concern that the watermelon pin as a political symbol could possibly make other physician colleagues in the room “uncomfortable” or “unsafe”.
All the while genocide continues in Palestine. When I asked if their policy of what could not be worn on the bodies of their members in their meetings have applied to any other political symbols or attire, they could not give me other examples. They asked me to remove the watermelon pin or leave the room, or sit in another room by myself to tune into the meeting virtually. I declined and left. I explained to them this is an incredibly disappointing and discriminatory policy for their meetings, and I hope it is revised.
I know medical colleagues including medical learners who have been kicked out of clinic because they wore a watermelon pin. These are examples of anti-Palestinian racism. As a physician, I stand in solidarity with my Palestinian medical colleagues who have been killed by the Israeli military and continue to be subjected to genocidal violence. Over 1,700 Palestinian healthcare workers have been killed by the Israeli military in Gaza. Many Palestinian healthcare workers remain in Israeli captivity and are being tortured by the Israeli military, including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, a paediatrician who stayed to care for his patients in the hospital he was the medical director of.
Shame on @OntariosDoctors for not only censoring what is allowed to be displayed on the bodies of their members, and even more so to be painfully silent in the face of attacks on our medical and healthcare worker colleagues in Palestine. Don’t look away from the genocide in Gaza. These acts of discrimination are forms of racism, and racism is a distraction from the real issue of ending Canadian complicity in Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
“White collar crime” is a euphemism for large-scale theft and criminality on a level that far exceeds what normal people have the means to do. So Eric Adams stealing $10,000,000 is “white collar crime” but stealing a $1,000 purse gets reported as “felony theft” and a “shoplifting epidemic.”
Netanyahu can call the Rafah massacre “tragic” but if a Palestinian citizen of Israel expresses sympathy for those tragically killed, it is literally a crime.
@BrooksWalsh Ive been trying to be more mindful about not ordering EKGs frivolously to avoid situations like this 😂 but I’m guessing this gentleman had an unwitnessed fall/syncope hence the lac
You could share the most harrowing images of Palestinian children dismembered/disemboweled by Israeli bombs - and without fail - someone whose handle is a string of letters and numbers with 🇺🇸🇮🇱🇺🇦 in their name will respond with “could be avoided if you just release the hostages”
Dr Adnan, a dedicated Palestinian surgeon and exceptionally brave fighter for the people of Gaza, died under torture in Israeli prisons after being arrested while carrying out his humanitarian work. Why are the perpetrators not being arrested and tried by the ICC for their heinous war crimes? Dr Mads
If you think militarized police officers assaulting, on camera, an unarmed 65-year-old woman, Annalise Orleck, who also happens to be *Chair of Jewish Studies* at Dartmouth, is ensuring Jewish safety on campus… then I don’t know what to say to you.
This is fascistic stuff:
I remember when Columbia invited me to give a talk on authoritarianism and dissent in the former Soviet Union and I described…the type of things Columbia is doing to its student protesters now