False charges of antisemitism in the U.S. healthcare community are spreading anti-Palestinian racism and doing irreparable harm to our work and obligation as healers.

Despite overwhelming documentation of plausible genocide and medical war crimes in Gaza, major U.S. medical organizations, journals, and lobbies have neglected their duty to take a stand against these atrocities.

As healthcare workers who have recently participated in medical missions to Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon, we are greatly alarmed by Israel’s decision to bar at least eight medical organizations to Gaza. The medical community must speak out.

I am an obstetrician and gynecologist who has worked in Gaza throughout the Israeli genocide. I have seen the destruction of Gaza’s medical sector firsthand. My patients’ stories tell the story of the genocide.

Rana Nabeel Baalousha is fighting a rare illness while also struggling to survive the genocide in Gaza. Her only hope of survival is a medical transfer out of Gaza, but Israel won’t allow it. Her story is one of many.

The American Psychological Association claims to “prioritize human rights advocacy,” but if its leaders want to truly honor that commitment they must recognize and address the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza today. 

Humanitarian aid in Gaza seeks to preserve human dignity, but dignity cannot be achieved without liberation.

The Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council held a distinguished panel of experts that addressed the settler colonial determinants of health in light of the Gaza genocide.

This genocidal war brings with it the systematic destruction of all of Gaza’s health system. This has created a new category of people who die from preventable illnesses due to a systematic lack of access to medical care.

The bar for hospitals to lose protected status under international law is set very high. Those conditions were not met for any of the 36 hospitals in Gaza that Israel destroyed.