SPME Physicians and Healthcare/Medical Scientists and Professionals, please sign and circulate to your physician colleagues a petition in support of Dr. Yoram Blachar, longstanding President of the Israeli Medical Association, who will become President of the World Medical Association. Derek Summerfield has again launched a campaign against Dr. Blachar and Israeli medicine as part of the “Medical Committee for Boycott of the Israeli Medical Association” (http://www.boycottima.org/ ). This organization seeks to “document the systematic torture of Palestinian people by agents of Israel.”
Summerfield is an inveterate critic of Israel and often seeks to use medical platforms to delegitimize Israel. He plays extremely loose with facts. See the attached pdf document from the Israeli Medical Association.
Please sign the counterpetition to Summerfield, which is available at http://www.petition.fm/petitions/ima.
While physician signatures are particularly welcome, I think it would be appropriate for any scientist or practitioner in the health fields to add his or her name, as I have done.
Steven M. Albert, PhD
Chair, SPME Task Force on Medical and Public Health Issues; Member, SPME Board of Directors
Professor
Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences
Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh
A211 Crabtree Hall, 120 DeSoto Ave.
Pittsburgh, PA 15261
Phone: 412-383-8693
Email smalbert@pitt.edu
University of Pittsburgh
