UCSF health professionals charge leadership with complicity in genocide
n contrast to its outspoken advocacy and commitment of resources to Ukraine, UCSF, whose stated mission is to “advanc[e] health worldwide,” has erected a formidable wall of silence around Israel’s genocide. It has ruthlessly policed and punished its own employees, including those who spoke out at the press conference nearly a year ago, who have dared to criticize Israel and to assert the right of Palestinians to exist. “At UCSF we have demanded that our leadership take a principled moral stand and condemn the atrocities in Gaza,” stated Dr. Jess Ghannam, a Palestinian American professor of psychology and global health sciences. “They have refused and instead created an oppressive environment that has targeted Palestinian solidarity communities. We have tried everything to engage the leadership at UCSF but have been met with a stunning silence.”
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by UC People’s Tribunal for Palestine, Mondoweiss.