Fighting for Civil Discourse and Academic Freedom

Letter Palestine: the assault on health and other war crimes Summerfield’s outrage is misplaced EDITOR-Summerfield’s jump from psychiatrist to attorney,judge, and jury is a classic example of the inappropriate useof science and medicine to promote specific political views.1 Any reasonable and objective observer of the longstanding conflictbetween Arabs and Jews understands that the situation is…

Prof. and Director of the Program on Conflict ManagementBar Ilan University, Israel Send response to journal:Re: BMJ: Summerfield’s fictions and agenda of hatred Editors, Derek Summerfield’s article consists of numerous fictitious claims designed to exploit medical and health norms to justify hatred and genocidal violence, while denying Israel the right to self-defense. His narrative erases…

The lowly preposition can be a potent agent of spin. Here’s a case in point. On August 24, 2004 undercover Israeli troops captured Adnan and Rateb Abayat, a commander of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades and his brother. All sources agree on this point. Adnan Abiyat had been sought by Israel’s Shin Bet for some time…