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Thousands of Doctors Signed an Anti-Israel Letter So Radical, Even The Lancet Won’t Publish It

The Lancet, one of the world’s oldest and most influential medical journals, agreed to publish an open letter signed by more than 3,000 physicians and demanding actions that would undermine Israel’s ability to protect itself from another Oct. 7-style terrorist attack. The letter also framed Israel’s response to the massacre of its citizens as an attack on “human rights.”

A few weeks after the letter received stiff criticism, The Lancet appears to have reconsidered.

“This is a copy of the letter titled ‘A Call to Action: An Open Letter from Global Health Professionals’ as it was to appear in an academic journal,” reads a note on the document. “Following acceptance and copy-editing by the journal, the decision to publish was rescinded.”

Former DEI head exposes TRUTH about ‘inclusion’ on woke college campuses

Back in 2021, Tabia Lee, EdD, was head of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) department at Silicon Valley’s De Anza College. At the time, she thought DEI was actually about inclusion. But almost immediately, she discovered the truth: “It was like I was in the Twilight Zone.” She tells Glenn that it only took two weeks for some of her fellow staff members to call her a “dirty zionist” who was “supporting white supremacy.” On top of that, she was told by many people, including Jewish students, that there was a problem with anti-Semitism on campus, despite its alleged commitment to inclusion. Now, she is a senior fellow at Do No Harm Medicine and has decided to expose the dangerous way American colleges have started to view “social justice.”

Watch the video below or read the transcript here.

Culture War | Medical Societies Captured by Woke Worldview

Media Mention, Video MD, Stanley Goldfarb

Dr. Stanley Goldfarb joins the Moms on a Mission Podcast again to discuss his book, “Take Two Aspirin And Call Me By My Pronouns” and the infection of social justice and opinion- based medicine into American medicine. He exposes the fact that there is no evidence based data being used to support the hijacking of our healthcare system. He says that if we focus on sociopolitical issues and identity politics in attempting to resolve disparities, we are definitely going to fail because there is no evidence that that is the solution to the problem.

Antisemitism linked to college DEI

DEI Media Mention

There’s a high price to pay for colleges’ “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programs. If you doubt it, look at how many college students are openly embracing antisemitism in response to the Israeli-Hamas conflict.

While many Americans have been shocked, that prejudice is sadly the product of many campus cultures, particularly DEI programs.

Tabia Lee, a black woman who previously served two years as a faculty DEI director at De Anza College in California, noted that reality in a recent New York Post column.

Lee warned, “At its worst, DEI is built on the unshakable belief that the world is divided into two groups of people: the oppressors and the oppressed. Jews are categorically placed in the oppressor category, while Israel is branded a ‘genocidal, settler, colonialist state.’ In this worldview, criticizing Israel and the Jewish people is not only acceptable but praiseworthy.”

National Counseling Organizations Push Transgender Ideology On Mental Health Professionals, In Schools

Gender Ideology Media Mention

Prominent mental health organizations have come out in support of transgender ideology, demanding that counselors affirm feelings of gender dysphoria in patients and advocate for policies that push transgenderism in schools.

The American School Counselor Association (ASCA), which reports a membership of 43,000 counselors and has certified trainers across the country, is demanding that school counselors “promote affirmation” for those who identify as transgender.

“Schools should make every effort to use students’ chosen/affirmed names on student records, even if a legal name change has not been made,” a statement from the organization reads, before saying that individual staff members should also use students’ “affirmed name.”

Watchdog Sues Tennessee Governor Over ‘Unlawful Racial Quotas’ for Medical Board Appointments

Tennessee DEI Media Mention

Do No Harm (DNH), an organization that monitors divisive ideologies infiltrating health care institutions, has filed a federal lawsuit regarding what it describes as “unlawful racial quotas” required by the Tennessee state government for medical board appointments.

The Tennessee Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners is required to have one of its members be nonwhite, which DNH states “has nothing to do with podiatry.”

“State medical boards are given important responsibilities to oversee the quality of care in their state and the safety of patients,” said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, board chair of DNH. “It is crucial that they be the most qualified physicians available. Like all aspects of health care, patient safety and patient concerns should be primary, not the skin color or the racial makeup of any oversight committee.”

Doctors should practice ‘anti-racist documentation,’ paper argues

DEI Media Mention

‘The New England Journal of Medicine is the world’s leading health journal. It’s troubling that they indulge woke activists at the expense of common sense and scientific rigor,’ anti-woke group says

A Georgetown University doctor has produced a paper recommending changes to medicine that would make it a more “anti-racist institution.”

Dr. J. Corey Willams, a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and the Yale University Psychiatry Residency Program, says that “Clinicians receive inconsistent instruction on how to use patients’ racial identities in clinical documentation and decision making, and often document this information without clear reasons or an understanding of its relevance.”

“Routine documentation of racial categories is rooted in the mythology of inherent biological differences between racial groups, especially between Black and non-Hispanic White people,” he wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine paper. He had eight other co-authors.

Tennessee’s Lee sued over racial-based oversight board member requirement

Tennessee DEI Media Mention

A Virginia-based nonprofit group called Do No Harm filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee, attempting to block a mandate that every government regulatory board has at least one member who is a racial minority.

The Pacific Legal Foundation filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Nashville after a Tennessee resident and Do Not Harm member has not been placed on the Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners because he was not a racial minority.

Two positions on the six-member board became open in June and one of the spots being vacated includes the only board member who is a racial minority.

Medical Association Sues Red State Over Race Quotas On Government Boards

Tennessee DEI Media Mention

An association of medical professionals filed a lawsuit against Tennessee Wednesday over a requirement that one member of each government licensing board be a racial minority.

One of the two seats that opened on Tennessee’s Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners in June must be reserved for a racial minority. The Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) filed a lawsuit challenging the requirement on behalf of the medical organization Do No Harm, which has “one or more members who are qualified, willing, and able to be appointed to the Board of Podiatric Examiners, if the racial mandates were enjoined,” according to the complaint.

Tennessee’s Racial Podiatry Rule

Tennessee DEI Op-Ed

The Supreme Court’s ruling this summer in Students for Fair Admissions ended racial preferences among college applicants, but the task of extending that legal precedent for colorblindness is only beginning. Medicine might be one field to watch next, since it’s a place where the use of racial selection criteria persists under state mandates.

On Wednesday a group called Do No Harm, which says it’s “dedicated to eliminating racial discrimination in healthcare,” plans to file a federal lawsuit challenging Tennessee’s rules for appointments to more than 70 state boards, according to the draft complaint. That includes the Board of Podiatric Medical Examiners, created in 1931, whose six members are chosen by the Governor to regulate podiatry practice.

Texas A&M nursing school required ‘commitment to diversity and inclusion’ for faculty hires

Texas DEI Texas A&M University School of Nursing Nursing school Media Mention

Texas A&M University’s School of Nursing set a threshold for showing a “commitment to diversity and inclusion” to hire faculty, according to documents.

A “Handbook for Faculty Search Committee Members” revised in February set diversity, equity, and inclusion standards for recruiting and hiring new faculty members.

The guidelines encourage having applicants write essays on their “personal commitment to diversity and inclusion” and how it “informs their past and future professional contributions.”

According to the document, which was obtained through a public records request, this shows applicants that “diversity and inclusion are core values for your department and college,” adding that hiring committees can set their own standards as to how to weigh commitment to DEI in hiring but to “consider setting a minimally acceptable score for the DEI commitment statement.”

Read more on the Washington Examiner.

‘People with cervices’: IU med school doubles down on gender ideology

Gender Ideology Media Mention

Indiana University School of Medicine has doubled down on its embrace of gender ideology in contradiction with biological reality, despite widespread media coverage of one of its courses.

Documents obtained by Do No Harm and provided exclusively to The College Fix show the public university continues to teach sex and gender are both “non-binary.”

“Genetic female” and “genetic male” are the “two most common chromosomal patterns,” the slides say, “but there are others.”

The “Sex and Gender Primer” slides also instruct aspiring doctors that what they learn today could become dated – “Linguistic practices are open to change as LGBTQIA+ advocates refine their perspectives on language.”

How DEI Inspires Jew Hatred

DEI Op-Ed MD, Stanley Goldfarb

Hell hath no fury like a donor scorned.

In recent days, a generous supporters have withdrawn or threatened to withdraw financial support from the University of Pennsylvania, where I used to teach. The list includes former U.S. ambassador Jon Huntsman, hedge-fund tycoon Cliff Asness, and Estee Lauder heir Ronald Lauder, to name a few. They’re furious over Penn’s pathetic response to anti-Semitism on campus following Hamas’s barbaric terrorist attack on Israel. The same thing is happening at other prominent schools, especially Harvard.

The donors should be angry, but withholding money won’t make much difference. Donors need to demand concrete reforms—especially rolling back the all-pervasive “diversity, equity, and inclusion” regime that gives cover to and encourages anti-Semites.

I say this as a former associate dean and professor at Penn’s Perelman School of Medicine, where I worked for 53 years, and as a Jewish person. For decades, I saw the hateful shenanigans that are, sadly, endemic to every prestigious university—the constant student protests against Israeli occupation; the fake graves representing dead Palestinians, including terrorists, suddenly appearing on campus overnight; and more.

EXCLUSIVE: Group That Trains Physician Assistants To Be ‘Anti-Racist’ Defended Race-Based College Admissions

DEI Media Mention

The group Physician Assistant Education Association (PAEA), which trains physician assistants (PA), held “anti-racism town halls,” according to leaked emails obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller.

PAEA is a membership-based group that represents PA educational programs. The group conducts learning programs at schools that train PAs across the country, including various professional development workshops.

The anti-racism events took place in September and provided “a space for PA students, faculty, and staff to share their stories, experiences, and feelings on racism that continues to pervade the fabric of the country,” according to an email.

Med school accreditor requires ‘commitment’ to DEI in mission statements

DEI Media Mention

All schools must hire DEI leaders to remain accredited

Osteopathic medical schools that want to remain accredited must show they support “diversity, equity, and inclusion” according to the new standards from the accreditor of those institutions.

The American Osteopathic Association has recently revised its accreditation standards to include DEI commitments. All of its colleges have until July 1, 2024 to become fully compliant.

All colleges “must include a commitment to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in its mission, values, vision, goals, or objectives,” according to the standards.

They must offer an annual DEI training to all faculty and staff and “have space available for use by students in a manner intended to support diversity, equity, and inclusion, and must consult with students in the process of establishing such a space.”

Amid DEI Backdrop, OU Students Condemn Israel

Oklahoma DEI University of Oklahoma Medical School Media Mention

The University of Oklahoma has often touted its “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) efforts as a method to make the school a place of “belonging” for all.

But on Oct. 25, about 150 students marched at OU to protest the nation of Israel’s response to recent terrorist attacks by Hamas, chanting, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” according to the OU Daily, the campus newspaper.

The protest was one of many that took place at college campuses nationwide that day with such activism increasingly linked to growing antisemitism on college campuses.

Notably, one former DEI director recently said college DEI programs fuel antisemitism.

In a column in the New York Post, Tabia Lee, a black woman who previously served two years as a faculty “diversity, equity, and inclusion” director at De Anza College in California, warned that DEI programs can foster antisemitism and suggested she was driven from her position after working “to create an authentically inclusive learning environment for everyone, including Jewish students.”

Nonprofit Organization Releases ‘Detransitioner Bill of Rights’

Gender Ideology Media Mention

This week, a nonprofit medical organization released model legislation that would help people who previously “transitioned” genders to reverse the effects of their treatments and surgeries.

The Detransitioner Bill of Rights was created by nonprofit organization Do No Harm. The legislation would address the rise in “detransitioners” who come out against their decision to undergo experimental, so-called “gender-affirming” care, according to a report from The Daily Wire.

Reportedly, the legislation would help people seeking to detransition financial access to medical treatments that would reverse the effects of transgender care. And it would give them the ability to pursue legal action against the entities that pushed the treatments on them.

Anti-racism supersedes actual medicine, endangers patients

DEI Op-Ed Ian Kingsbury, PhD, PhD

Ibram X. Kendi’s gravy train could soon screech to a halt. The famous “anti-racist” professor is under intense public and institutional scrutiny after a Boston University investigation revealed that his “Center for Antiracist Research” squandered tens of millions of dollars, producing practically no research.

But while the ideologue is disgraced, his ideological fingerprint remains impressed upon academia. Nowhere is anti-racism’s influence more concerning than medical research, where racialized pseudoscience has effectively replaced scientific rigor in making sense of matters of life or death.

Anti-racism asserts that race-blind policies allow bigoted attitudes and beliefs to flourish, and that disparities across racial groups must be evidence of racism. In accordance with the ideology, leading healthcare organizations now uncritically and reflexively claim that health disparities across racial groups must be the result of racism disguised or fueled by race-neutral policies.