Harvard Medical School Cancels Class Session With Gazan Patients, Calling It One-Sided

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Harvard Medical School canceled a planned Jan. 21 lecture on wartime healthcare and a subsequent panel with patients from Gaza receiving care in Boston in response to objections that students would hear from Gazans impacted by the war and not also Israelis.

Course instructors and students were notified Tuesday morning that the events — scheduled for that evening — would not be held.

Students had organized the moderated discussion with patients and their families as a follow-up to Levy’s lecture, which was not focused specifically on Gaza.

Jones said that Arabic-speaking Medical School students who had served as interpreters for patients from Gaza in Boston asked course staff to arrange the session with Levy and patients’ families.

“Students often find that the presence of a patient who is interviewed and discusses their experiences is often far more engaging, powerful, and moving than hearing a professor carry on about the pathophysiology of disease,” Jones said.

The optional session was part of the course’s original spring semester curriculum and was approved by HMS administrators, according to Jones.

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Medical School Dean George Q. Daley ’82 wrote in a Wednesday email sent to first-year students and obtained by The Crimson that his office began receiving complaints from students and faculty within days after the session was first publicized last week.

The guest lecture — by Tufts professor Barry S. Levy [...]"

Nice job Tufts.

“We are committed to exploring the most educationally rigorous means to teach and learn about the impact of war on the delivery of healthcare and on the health of affected populations, and to do so in a way that does not divide members of our community who hold disparate views,” he wrote.

Can't offend those backing genocide!

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To balance it out, they should have 1 Israeli patient for every 39 Gazan patients.

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I think the ratio is up to 43 now, actually.

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If these last 15 months taught me anything, it's that I shouldn't step foot anywhere near the US education system. What the fuck is this?

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All the "top" schools hitched themselves to Corporate bandwagons decades ago. They're now parasitically interwoven in "innovation," which is why "success" no longer matters what you know, only *who* you have access to.

Their Corporates with multi-billion dollar endowments who pretend to be paupers, who have no qualms whatsoever about thumbing the scales of society to their own whims, as this case perfectly exemplifies.

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Harvard is Zionist and has the same biases as the american elite. In other news, water is wet.

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After the initial cancellation, the organizers briefly received conditional approval to host the event as a student group, separately from the Essentials course. Less than an hour later, at roughly 11:30 a.m., they were told they could not host the event at all.

Fuck Harvard.

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Not every issue has two sides worth listening to.

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They should have an Israeli pilot there to explain how he made sure to hit exactly the right spot in the school he bombed.

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So they needed some IDF people mixed in to yell "they deserved it" every few minutes?

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How many times have only the Jews been listened to in political discussion over the Israel/Palestine territory?

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Correction: It's the Zionists, who are occasionally also Jews. Organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace are *not* being listened to.

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