A group of 130 British doctors have called for a boycott of the Israel Medical Association and its expulsion from the World Medical Association.
In a letter to The Guardian newspaper in England last week the physicians, headed by the anti-Israel Dr Derek Summerfield and Professor Colin Green claimed “Persistent violations of medical ethics have accompanied Israel’s occupation.”
The letter compared Israel to apartheid South Africa. “We are calling for a boycott of the Israeli Medical Association and its expulsion from the WMA. There is a precedent for this: the expulsion of the Medical Association of South Africa during the apartheid era,” it read.
“A boycott is an ethical and moral imperative when conventional channels do not function, for otherwise we are merely turning away,” the doctors added.
The letter came after 18 Palestinian health organizations appealed to fellow professionals abroad to “recognize how the IMA has forfeited its right to membership of the international medical community.”
Source: www.ejpress.org
Date: May 2, 2007
Posted: May 6, 2007
By Jeremy Last
