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Background:
October 2023, I was suspended from my physician job, after calling out dehumanizing and debunked Anti-Palestinian racism. I'd identified ๐ฎ๐ฑ war crimes and genhocide.
My criticism of ๐ฎ๐ฑ was accurate, and supported by multiple human rights organizations including @hrw @amnesty @UN @btselem , but that didn't stop claims I was an antisemite for criticizing a nation state committing genhocide.
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Some personal news-
After almost a decade, I have left Sinai Health. I am grateful for the many kind and generous people who have been my colleagues, and to the beautiful patients and families who have welcomed me into their homes over the years.
I grew up under apartheid in South Africa without equal rights. My parents and grandparents spent most of their lives as lesser humans under the law. We know apartheid in our souls when we see it. Most of the close friends I have made over the last year come from families who have experienced colonial violence and genocide. There is a reason so many of us around the world see parts of our struggles in Palestine.
There is nothing antisemitic or unprofessional in speaking out against the mass slaughter, kidnapping, and torture of our colleagues, the bombings of hospitals, and the crimes against humanity of extermination that have been committed by Israel against Palestinians โ crimes on a scale unprecedented in our lifetimes.
There is nothing antisemitic or unprofessional about seeing Palestinians as human beings deserving of liberation, freedom, and safety.
I will never ever regret opposing genocide, apartheid, and occupation โand the complicity and involvement of our own governments and institutions in these crimes.
I am grateful to accept a position working in Indigenous health under the leadership of the incredible and inspiring Dr. Suzanne Shoush.
Thank you to every person who has supported me over the last 16 months. Your words, messages, and solidarity have meant more to me than you will ever know.
From Palestine, to Turtle Island, to South Africa, to Sudan, to Congo and beyond โ we will not be silenced. Free all of our people โ from all rivers, to all seas.








