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Regarding “Sitting on the sidelines,” by Mark Seal, December 24, 2004 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/518470.html Mark Seal’s piece fails to take into account several basic premises of the relationship of American Jewish organizations with Israeli politics, which accounts for why sometimes support for…
read moreTo the Editor: Roger Avenstrup (“Where is all that incitement?” IHT, December 18-19, 2004) blithely writes that the 2003 report of the Israel-Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI) contends that the overall orientation of the Palestinian curriculum is “peaceful”.…
read moreLetter 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…
read moreProf. 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…
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Overview and summary A Canadian Journal of Psychiatry article on the prevalence of psychological morbidity in West Bank Palestinian Children had serious scientific errors and appeared to inappropriately use science in an attempt to further a specific political viewpoint. A…
read moreThe 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…
read moreTwice in one week, humanitarian gestures at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba have saved Palestinian children from Gaza who have no medical insurance. A seven-year-old girl suffered second- and third-degree burns over a third of her body after she was…
read moreQ. Rae-Grant, MDEditor-in-chiefCanadian Journal of PsychiatryMay 30, 2004 Dear Editor: In “The prevalence of psychological morbidity in West Bank Palestinian Children”, [1] serious omissions presenting the data were present. Moreover, clearly biased and undocumented statements attributing causality on the basis…
read moreDear Prof. Bloom,In the first paragraph of your response to my inquiry, you wrote “I have examined the issues, namely: the relation of IHLRI to the mission of the Program, the procedures and scope of input into IHLRI content, and…
read moreNEW YORK, May 19 (JTA) – The belief that students are the main instigators of anti-Israel activity on college campuses is wrong – it’s actually the faculty. At least, that’s the premise of a soon-to-be released report by the Israel…
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