- Healthcare workers, we must cultivate our courage. We must learn from the doctors in Gaza. Speak up and stop the violent attacks on our colleagues, profession and the children. The repression of healthcare workers in the West facilitates the genocide in Gaza—it is a part of the genocide. When our voices are silenced, the killing that targets our colleagues can continue uncontested. The health institutions and universities that silence us must be held accountable for genocide abetment.
- This is the Genocide Enablement Apparatus.
- … Join me January 6th and call in SICK FROM GENOCIDE. Take leave. Gather and grieve. Organize a pop up free clinic and treat the people in the US who do not have healthcare while we send $360 billion to Israel, where they have free healthcare.
- … Speak up about these grave health injustices. Speak up about your outrage of the abduction and torture of hundreds of healthcare workers, including Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, a pediatrician who I had the honor of listening to several times from his post at Kamal Adwan Hospital, the beloved hospital he directed before Israel destroyed it and kidnapped him. Demand his release and the release of all of our detained colleagues. Organize a medical boycott of Israel until we our profession is back to where it belongs—protected by the International community. Learn from movement workers how to launch a campaign and win. We cannot let this attack on healthcare and flagrant debasement of International Humanitarian Law to become the new normal during armed conflict.
- End this genocide.
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