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General Category => Health/Education => Topic started by: rangerrebew on January 14, 2024, 05:54:37 pm
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NY’s Siena College under fire for inviting California professor who claimed Zionist doctors are threat to US medicine: ‘Unmistakably antisemitic’
By Social Links forCarl Campanile
Published Jan. 10, 2024, 4:46 p.m. ET
Upstate New York’s Siena College nixed plans to let a medical professor speak on campus after facing heat over the invite because of her claims that Zionist doctors could pose a threat to US medicine and public health.
“The presence of Zionism in US medicine should be examined as a structural impediment to health equity,” Dr. Rupa Marya, associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, posted on X last week.
“Zionism is a supremacist; racist ideology and we see Zionist doctors justifying the genocide of Palestinians,” she continued.
“How does their outlook/position impact priorities in US medicine?”
Local lawmakers and Jewish civil rights groups slammed the comments as antisemitic and questioned Siena College’s selection of Marya as speaker in a March lecture series.
https://nypost.com/2024/01/10/metro/siena-college-invites-speaker-who-pushed-anti-zionist-conspiracy/