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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

4 months

Yesterday, I sent my letter of resignation as a board director to @CMA_Docs . As the national organization that represents physicians and medical learners in Canada, I am profoundly disappointed and appalled by their actions and behaviour. Link to letter:

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

Over the past week, I had the privilege and opportunity to visit Rafah, Gaza to bear witness to an ongoing genocide, bring in essential medications and supplies, and provide humanitarian medical relief work in primary healthcare.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

This is cultural genocide. The Canadian government has removed being born in the state of Palestine as an option on passport renewal process - and people are expected to accept being born stateless moving forward. This is anti-Palestinian racism.

Leilani Farha 🍉

@leilanifarha

2 months

Denying ppl born in Palestine the right to put that as their place of birth on a Canadian 🇨🇦 passport is anti-Palestinian racism. Rectify this erasure now. @JustinTrudeau @MClaude_Landry @CdnHumanRights @MarcMillerVM #TikTok

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

This is anti-Palestinian racism and hate.

joemorin73 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 🍉 (He/Him)

@joemorin73

2 months

ATTN: Zionist with Nail gun attempts to shoot pro-Palestine protestors. (Source: pal.esign/Instagram)

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

1 month

Immediately as I entered the Senate of Canada, I was stopped. There was something wrong. The security guard says to another: “I need you to approve the button”. In comes another security guard and says with a blank stare: “It’s fine”.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

26 days

Why does Israel drop tear gas bombs on people as they are praying during the holy month of Ramadan? Why? Why does Israel occupy Jerusalem? Why does Israel occupy the West Bank? Why? End this state violence. End Israeli apartheid. End the illegal occupation of Palestine.

Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده

@RamAbdu

26 days

Breaking: Israeli drones drop tear gas bombs on worshipers inside Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem to force them out of the mosque.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

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Palestine is freeing us from any doubt that academic institutions serve the systems of oppression first and foremost, that of white supremacy, structural racism, and colonialism. Any sense of a facade has been completely shattered. There is no going back to the status quo.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

Horrific images from Gaza, less than 24hrs old, of the unimaginable brutal killing of a human being by being run over by an IDF tank. As much as I want to look away, we must not turn away. We are not the ones experiencing the genocide. We must bear witness, and demand justice.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 years

Sigh. 😭 Gifted a parking ticket by the city after a 24 hr shift at the hospital. I’ll pay the fine because there are rules. But I wish these rules apply equally to the disruptive protestors in downtown, where I also live, causing ++traffic delays to get to the hospital. Irony.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

4 months

I’m so impressed by the work of the lawyers and legal team representing South Africa. Doing what so many have failed to do, or were too afraid to do. Historic.

Ahmed Teebi, MD MPH🗝️

@Teebi_MD

4 months

I don’t think Y’ll grasp what’s happening in South Africa🇿🇦. Black people that survived #Apartheid went to become judges and lawyers. And now defending Palestinians🇵🇸 against the country that sent South Africa🇿🇦 weapons during Apartheid! We are living History!!!!!!…

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

All eyes on Gaza. Rafah is being bombed right now in the middle of the night. The Oscar’s is used as a distraction. A stark reminder of the heavy bombing and massacre that happened overnight at 2am on Feb 12. The super bowl was used as a distraction. We entered Rafah that day.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

1 month

There is no good reason to enter a peaceful protest with horses. This is police brutality. Defund the police.

Nur Dogan

@nurdogandiyorki

1 month

#Toronto police violently attacked Palestine supporters with horses. The police arrested two demonstrators. #Gaza

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

What we witnessed in the primary care centres in Rafah, Gaza was the tip of the iceberg of the multiple overlapping crises of food, water, and housing insecurity. It is my opinion that these preventable crises are the material manifestations of a genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

25 days

This is racist and defamatory, and spreading misinformation. This protestor has coloured smoke canisters. Shame on you.

Melissa Lantsman

@MelissaLantsman

25 days

Peaceful protester wearing a pretend suicide vest at the #AlQudsDay rally in Toronto. No big deal. This morally bankrupt Liberal government has decided this is the Canada they want. #cdnpoli Everyone else hears your silence @JustinTrudeau

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

I feel so very inspired and empowered by my experience of meeting and spending time with the Palestinian people in Gaza. They have taught me so very much about the practice of humanity, compassion, and resiliency - while they are experiencing the unimaginable for most of us.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

I’ve been receiving a lot of messages about how to best support & help the people in Gaza, such as through supporting the efforts of the medical delegations providing humanitarian medical relief that are entering or planning to enter Gaza including with in-kind & cash donations.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

Children are being forcibly starved and dehydrated in Gaza. They do not have access to nutritious food and clean water. Aid is being withheld to enter. The conditions of unstable shelter, living in tents outside & crowding, have resulted in outbreaks of gastrointestinal disease.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

1 month

We mourn and honour the lives of the healthcare workers and people killed by the genocidal campaign of Israel. Their depravity knows no bounds. We must demand and fight for justice. For the lives that continue to hang in the balance. We will not rest until Palestine is free.

Ghassan Abu Sitta

@GhassanAbuSitt1

1 month

They killed my friend and colleague Dr Ahmad Maqadmeh at Shifa Hospital. A beautifull soul and a great surgeon. We worked together in the Great Marches of Return and the 2021 war and then this recent war. His dedication was unlike anything I have ever seen. We will never forgive.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

I went to Gaza and worked on the ground alongside and with the support and guidance of the courageous and compassionate humanitarian, Dr. @AlviFozia . I have learned so much about her vision for a more equitable and just world through the lens of humanitarian medical volunteering.

Dr.Fozia Alvi

@AlviFozia

2 months

We witnessed crimes against humanity together, saw small children dying of hunger, bombs, sniper shots. World has failed children of #Gaza . @yipengGe

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

1 month

This is genocide. Do everything in your power to stop this, and then do more. The systematic withholding of food and other aid to the people of Gaza is genocidal.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

28 days

I was supposed to work at Nasser hospital in February. But it was attacked and under siege by the Israeli forces, and is now non-operational. These are clear deliberate attacks on healthcare. These are attacks on our collective humanity. Ceasefire now. End this genocide now.

Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières

@MSF_canada

28 days

#Gaza : How the Israeli army besieged and attacked #Nasser hospital - Timeline and thread🧵

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

Canada was created as a colonial project on stolen land and the genocide of Indigenous peoples. Canada remains complicit in the genocide and theft of land of other peoples around the world to this day. Our collective struggles for liberation are bound with one another.

Christi Belcourt

@christibelcourt

2 months

Selling other people's lands is theft Whether done out of a church, mosque, synagogue, temple, or tent Why is there silence in North America about it & no action to stop it? Cause governments here had plenty of practice at it & laws are made for those outside power not within

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

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This blood is on your hands, @melaniejoly . You are complicit in this ongoing genocide. Shame on you for not doing everything within your power to stop this from happening.

Mélanie Joly

@melaniejoly

29 days

1/2 I am horrified to hear reports of the IDF strike taking the lives of 7 World Central Kitchen employees in Gaza yesterday, including a Canadian citizen.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

Airdropping aid is not a solution. It’s performative & harmful. People have been killed by aid landing & crushing them. Aid has landed & now destroying healthcare infrastructure. This madness must end. Open the land borders, let aid in, let food & water in. This is genocide.

Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸

@MuhammadSmiry

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Airdropped aid destroyed the solar panels of a hospital in Gaza.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

This madness must end now. I wake up every day in Canada holding my breath for the next man-made tragedy inflicted on people in Gaza. This one hits close - I slept at the Emirati hospital when I first arrived in Rafah. I know the doctors and staff there. This genocide must stop.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

What I found during my time in Gaza was communities and people that were finding ways to live and support one another despite all of the hardships they were facing. I am so incredibly humbled and grateful to have shared time and space with some truly amazing people in Gaza.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 years

Really enjoyed hearing you speak on your pathway into public leadership and meeting you, @lenirobredo , at the @Kennedy_School ! 🥹 My friend @WeanneMyrrh has said many good things about you! Thank you for taking the time to share your reflections to students.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

Here’s an example of the sounds of bombing that woke me up in the morning, while I was at the clinic in Rafah. Normally I heard bombing usually when it got dark out, but this morning I was startled awake because of the bombing. A paramedic and nurse were killed today at Emirati.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

I have learned so much about unparalleled resiliency, kindness, and humanity from the Palestinians in Gaza who welcomed us in. They are experiencing the unimaginable. I am devastated for them, and inspired because of them. I will be sharing more in the coming days and weeks.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

3 months

Palestine is freeing us all.

Nusaybah

@hate_stopper

3 months

@DrAnnLopez . @uOttawa lost respect and integrity when they unjustly suspended Dr. @yipengGe . Palestine is a litmus test that exposes double standards and selective humanity even in the most "respectable" institutions.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

19 days

Let those who are complicit with genocide continue to show their blatant anti-Palestinian racism. We will only grow louder and more steadfast. In our millions, in our billions. Free the people of Palestine. 🇵🇸🕊️

Mohammad 🇵🇸

@mohammadfff_

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if Germany had just let this event go ahead in Berlin, this would have stayed local. By cancelling the event and banning Dr @GhassanAbuSitt1 from entering the country, they brought global attention to their restrictions on freedoms of speech

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

1 month

There is no good way to put into words what bearing witness feels like today, as we continue to witness genocide unfold by the photos & videos coming from the ground at Al Shifa hospital where over 400 bodies are being discovered & recovered after a two week long siege by Israel.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

28 days

@JustinTrudeau Israeli arms embargo now. Sanctions now. Demand an end to the illegal occupation of Palestine now.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

Rachel Corrie died 21 years ago to this day. I don’t know you and we never met, and sadly we never will in this lifetime because you were killed by an Israeli bulldozer, while protesting the demolitions of Palestinian homes.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

Our team was initially tasked with working at Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza. However, only a few days before entering Gaza, this assignment was changed due to the evolving security and access concerns at Nasser hospital due to the targeted attacks on healthcare workers…

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

4 months

On this Christmas Day, I’m reflecting on visiting Bayt Lahm (بيت لحم), the birthplace of Jesus Christ, in Palestine earlier this year. I bore witness to the violent occupation and the crime of apartheid against Palestinians by Israel.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

1 month

I received multiple acknowledgments of thanks or a nod of appreciation from others throughout the day, about the button. This is why even the smallest acts of solidarity matter. Free Palestine.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

14 days

You are the best of us. Thank you for your tireless commitment and service for humanity, documenting an ongoing genocide. We owe you everything.

حسام شبات

@HossamShabat

14 days

Just a few of my colleagues in the north we all have been working tirelessly for the past 191 days. They are great, brave journalists on the ground who haven’t taken a single day off , amplify Palestinian journalists 🇵🇸

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

Thank you @AJEnglish for the opportunity to reflect and share. We are all freer when Palestine is free.

Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

3 months

“To remain silent and to feel isolated and to feel afraid does so much more harm to a movement for a free Palestine.” Canadian Doctor Yipeng Ge talks about the suspension from his medical residency and why he decided not to continue his education there.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

3 months

Received this email from the @CMA_Docs today. No, I will not renew my membership. I will not affiliate myself with a racist medical institution that chooses willfully to uphold anti-Palestinian racism, and refuse to acknowledge our shared humanity and solidarity. #AntiRacism

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

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Shame on you, @Atul_Gawande . Our healthcare worker colleagues are being brutally murdered in Gaza, for simply caring for their patients. Your silence is complicity in this ongoing genocide. Your lack of ethics and professionalism as a doctor in the face of genocide is appalling.

IfNotNow🔥✡️

@IfNotNowOrg

27 days

Watch: Yesterday, at a DC event on “the critical importance of supporting and safeguarding health workers,” USAID rep Dr. Atul Gawande struggled to respond when activists asked him to condemn the US-funded Israeli assault on Gaza, which has killed scores of health-workers.

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@yipengGe

2 months

We have failed, and continue to fail the people of Gaza. We need to do everything within our power, as people and as communities, to put a stop to this madness and an end to this horror. Canada is complicit and aiding Israel in genocide.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

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Al-Shifa Hospital and medical complex had only recently restored partial healthcare services, caring for patients in northern Gaza. It was bombed and attacked throughout the night. Many casualties. There are reports of a ground invasion involving forced evacuation at gunpoint.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

It pains me deeply to know that bombings are intensifying in Rafah now. It’s been said almost 3 months ago, that there is no safe place in Gaza. I had to check-in today to see if my colleagues & friends were safe & alive from the Emirati hospital bombing. I’m so worried for them.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

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I did not see anyone else’s buttons or pins be asked to be removed or taken off prior to entering the chambers. Someone that I met while waiting in line to enter the chambers thanked me for wearing the button, and for at least trying to bring it into the chambers.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

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Later, I tried to enter the Senate Chamber with my button, which my friend Riam gave me right after I returned from Gaza into Egypt, but they wouldn’t allow my button in. They said it is “political” and they don’t allow “political” items or objects into the chamber.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

Disgusting behaviour by many to spread misinformation on a protest about the ‘targeting’ of a hospital in Toronto. All the while I was in Gaza hearing the nightly bombing & shelling around healthcare facilities. Nasser hospital in Gaza was under attack and is now non-operational.

Health Workers Alliance for Palestine

@HA4Palestine

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Join Jews Say No To Genocide and allies demanding hospital CEOs retract their inaccurate statements RE: last week's 'Hands Off Rafah' protest & issue an apology to Toronto’s Palestinian community & the thousands who marched calling for a #CeasefireNOW

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

Here’s an example of the almost 24/7 sounds of drones overhead, an incessant buzzing noise that at times is so loud that you can’t think, can’t sleep, and certainly can’t forget about the oppressive feeling of being killed at any point by an airstrike. This was at the clinic.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

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Actions mean more than words, @JustinTrudeau . This blood is on your hands. Israeli arms embargo now. Sanctions now. Demand an end to the illegal occupation of Palestine now.

Justin Trudeau

@JustinTrudeau

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My thoughts are with the family of Jacob Flickinger, a Canadian citizen who was among those killed in an Israeli airstrike on an aid vehicle. Killed while delivering food to civilians in need, his death is absolutely unacceptable. At a time when humanitarian aid is so urgently…

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@yipengGe

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This is what happens when Canadian politicians support and enable a genocide of people in Gaza. Shame on them. They are complicit in the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians and children. Power to the people. 🔥

Andrea Houston

@dreahouston

2 months

Outside the AGO, Palestinian solidarity activists block @HonAhmedHussen from entering. Trudeau is expected soon to meet with the Italian PM. All entrances are blocked.

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@yipengGe

3 months

All eyes on Gaza. Stop the siege on hospitals and civilians. Stop the genocide. End the occupation. Free Palestine.

Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières

@MSF_canada

3 months

#Gaza : MSF staff in Nasser hospital report they can feel the ground shaking and that there is a sense of panic among staff, patients and displaced people sheltering inside the building.

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@yipengGe

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We are soon going to see more Western mainstream media coverage report on the genocide and criticize Israel. The tides are shifting. However, we must hold them accountable for the anti-Palestinian racism they upheld and perpetuated in their reporting that has enabled genocide.

Alastair Jamieson

@alastairjam

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Our front page tomorrow @Independent ‘The moment has come to do whatever it takes to force Israel to end its war. It has to stop.’ #TomorrowsPapersToday

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

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I went into medicine to help patients and community, to draw attention to the root causes of disease and suffering. Not to deny genocide. Not to waver in the face of injustice. Not to condone or allow bullying and harassment of learners. Shame on you @uOttawaMed & @CMA_Docs .

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@yipengGe

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The racist and defamatory post by @MelissaLantsman is still up after 15 hours. This is the deputy leader of the opposition federal party in Canada’s House of Commons. This is unbecoming behaviour of a public servant. This is inciting hate and spreading misinformation. Shameful.

Tabatha Southey

@TabathaSouthey

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For hours people have told Conservative deputy leader @MelissaLantsman that those are smoke canisters, used at celebrations, sporting events, gender reveals and, yes, protests, yet her post remains up. It’s pretty clear what she’s hoping to accomplish here — and at whose expense.

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I have set up a monthly donation to @UNRWA . Please consider doing the same if you’re able to. Any amount helps especially if we all contribute what we can - we are stronger all together. Donate here if you can:

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@yipengGe

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This blood is on your hands, @HonAhmedHussen . You are complicit in this ongoing genocide. Shame on you and your government administration for not doing everything within your power to stop this from happening.

Ahmed Hussen

@HonAhmedHussen

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Utterly appalled and deeply saddened by the news of an IDF strike claiming the lives of 7 World Central Kitchen humanitarian workers, including a Canadian-US citizen, as they heroically sought to deliver much needed food supplies to suffering Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

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Over 170 United Nations staff have been killed, and over 340 healthcare workers have been killed. How much longer will Israel and its supporting nations like Canada and the United States continue to enable this genocidal campaign in Gaza?

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

❤️

Ahmed Smiry

@ahmedsmiry_GAZA

2 months

Good evening from Gaza 🇵🇸

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

4 months

My wish for 2024, is a Free Palestine. And medical learners are no longer targeted and silenced for their health advocacy and solidarity for health and human rights for Palestine.

Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

4 months

I wrote to @AFMC_e yesterday about the integrity of the residency matching process and the targeting of medical students. As a past interviewee, file reviewer, and interviewer, I believe their statement is woefully insufficient. My letter is here:

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Students and young people are the moral compass for social movements. They have everything to lose, and yet they put it all on the line for humanity. Shame on the complicit genocide sympathizers and enablers that sit in their ivory tower institutions employing state violence.

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At least 300 healthcare workers have been reported killed in Gaza, since early October this year. ❤️‍🩹💔 This is completely unacceptable. And against international humanitarian law that provides rules to protect access to healthcare in times of armed conflict.

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Yipeng Ge 葛义朋

@yipengGe

2 months

Exactly this. 💯 My patience is running out for so-called health equity folks in Canada that remain silent out of racism, ignorance, or blatant disregard for certain lives in this world. While ongoing genocides unfold with the complicity of Canada. The audacity.

Amal

@amaalnuura

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@DrAhmednurAli It’s also wild how Canada is backing Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and imposing #RacistRestrictions on people fleeing genocide and war in Sudan and Gaza. On top of that, #CongoGenocide rages on. Can I get a RT? #FreePalestine #KeepEyesOnSudan #EyesOnDarfur #FreeCongo

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Al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza is under a fourth day of sustained attack. People executed. Healthcare workers kidnapped and detained. Patients left to die without care and support. Where is humanity?

حسام شبات

@HossamShabat

1 month

🚨 Day 4 of the Al-Shifa hospital attack : Israeli occupation forces have so far executed 150 young men in and around the hospital. Israeli occupation forces have kidnapped over 300 civilians from the hospital, including doctors, nurses, journalists, and patients. Three…

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@yipengGe

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I’m so disappointed in the city of Ottawa. The right to peacefully protest is under threat in the nation’s capital city. $490 for using a megaphone? The silencing & intimidation to dissuade people for advocating for health & human rights for Palestine must stop. Shame on Ottawa.

Joel Harden

@JoelHardenONDP

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I love Ottawa, but I’m disappointed in my city today. Using a small megaphone to advocate for Palestinian human rights gets a $490 fine? This has to stop. #CeasefireNOW

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Power to you, Dr. Ben Thomson. I’m proud to call you a respected colleague and friend. @BenNephrology has always centred health and human rights and just returned from Gaza. Shame on the healthcare institutions that perpetuate anti-Palestinian racism.

Shree Paradkar: This doctor was suspended after his tweets on the Israel-Hamas conflict drew...

Ben Thomson, a nephrologist at Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital, is suing Mackenzie Health for more than $1.5 million. Mackenzie Health, which has not yet filed a formal response, says it

www.thestar.com

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@yipengGe

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There is no humanitarian solution to this man-made crisis inflicted by Israel on the people of Gaza. Children are dying of severe malnutrition every day now, due to the overlapping crises of food, water, and housing insecurity.

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@yipengGe

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Amazing. ❤️‍🩹 We must do everything in our power to put an end to this genocide and apartheid, and the ongoing Nakba. 👏

Dr Valerie Dube, MD, FRCPC

@DrValerieDube

2 months

I closed my investment portfolio at MD Financial which is now owned by ScotiaBank. Here is my letter to my financial advisor. I also told him that the proceeds would be donated to Palestine.

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The role of non-profit or non-governmental organizations & charities often falls into the space of filling the gaps of existing or exacerbated health and social inequities, often as a consequence of structural racism and discrimination upheld by the status quo of current systems.

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@yipengGe

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Power to the students. We learn from you. We are so proud of you. We stand with you.

Talia Jane

@taliaotg

14 days

@Columbia “Let go! Divest! We will not stop, we will not rest!” Demonstrators continue rallying at @columbia well past the 9pm deadline set by the school to clear the lawn. A significant portion of this growing crowd of at least 400 know they may face arrest, and are ready for it.

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@yipengGe

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I had the opportunity to discuss with Hallie Cotnam on CBC Radio’s Ottawa Morning, what I saw as a doctor in Gaza. After describing one of the patients I cared for, who was severely malnourished from being forcibly starved, Hallie paused, teared up, and was unable to speak.

Sam Hersh

@SamHersh01

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Important interview from @yipengGe , the medical resident who was unfairly suspended from @uOttawa for Pro-Palestine posts, documenting the horrors he saw while volunteering in Gaza to provide medical support to those affected by Israeli army bombardments.

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@yipengGe

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I love you, Ramy Youssef. Thank you. ❤️‍🩹🍉

Saturday Night Live - SNL

@nbcsnl

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Ramy Youssef’s monologue!

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@yipengGe

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You are complicit in this ongoing genocide, @JustinTrudeau . With your anti-Palestinian rhetoric and your government’s approval of military export permits. You facilitated and enabled this crisis in Gaza, that is being investigated by @CIJ_ICJ as plausible genocide. Shame on you.

Justin Trudeau

@JustinTrudeau

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For many, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza means the joy of Eid will not be felt the same as past years. Yet, the message of Eid – of charity and service to those in need – remains as important as ever. May this Eid al-Fitr bring peace and blessings to you and your loved ones.

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Thank you for this letter, @ijvottawa . Anti-Palestinian racism affects us all - especially those who stand for health and human rights for Palestinians facing an ongoing genocide in Gaza. Shame on @uOttawaMed and @uOttawa for their perpetuation of racism and discrimination.

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@yipengGe

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Hi Dr. @jossreimer , did you know that over 1250 health workers & 150 organizations sent an open letter today calling on @JustinTrudeau to end the current government's racist restrictions against Sudanese & Palestinians arriving in Canada? Or does #AccessToCare not apply to them?

Dr. Joss Reimer

@jossreimer

2 months

Pleased to meet @CanadianPM . Progress made re: bilat agreement in Manitoba. We also talked re: @CMA_Docs statement on gender identity. At the ❤️ of these convos: improving #AccessToCare . Everyone deserves access to medical support they need, free from political interference.

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Last week, I spoke with CP24, Toronto’s breaking news, about what I witnessed while caring for patients in Gaza. While genocide continues to unfold in Gaza, a resident physician colleague of mine told me last week about an interaction that they had with their direct supervisor.

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@yipengGe

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Demand justice for Asna. And demand justice for all students, learners, staff, and faculty members of academic institutions that wrongfully and unjustly experience anti-Palestinian racism and rhetoric. We stand with you.

philip lewis

@Phil_Lewis_

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USC announced that valedictorian Asna Tabassum’s commencement speech has been canceled, stating it was “necessary to maintain the safety of our campus and students” ‘I am surprised that my own university has abandoned me,’ Tabassum said in a statement

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Walid Daqqa, a scholar and writer, was murdered today in the Israeli prison complex due to medical negligence, rooted in structural racism and systematic denial of human rights in violation of international standards on the treatment of detainees.

Israeli authorities should release Walid Daqah immediately

Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqah is terminally ill, and has been denied access to specialist healthcare by Israel's prison service.

www.amnesty.org

Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده

@RamAbdu

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Breaking: After being subjected to severe torture and international campaigns for his release, Israel announces the death of the Palestinian prisoner Walid Daqqa, who spent 37 years in Israeli prisons. in one of its prisons.

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It’s one thing to have differing political views. A very different thing to write, share, and amplify hateful content that discriminates, stereotypes, and dehumanizes Palestinians. This must stop.

Stop Arab Hate

@StopArabHate

4 months

🚨 Read what these 8 doctors have said about Palestinians… What is going on in America’s hospitals?

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@yipengGe

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As Canadian healthcare workers, we need to be able to talk about the attacks on healthcare in Gaza. This was a graphic shared with me by @WHO when I was on the ground in Rafah. There is a systematic campaign of targeting and attacking healthcare and healthcare workers in Gaza.

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@yipengGe

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My friends and colleagues at Harvard university have faced and experienced horrifying acts of discrimination, harassment, and racism. The institution has failed to protect Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and supporters of Palestinian rights. Power to the students. In solidarity.

IMEU

@theIMEU

3 months

BREAKING: Over a dozen Harvard students have filed a federal civil rights complaint over Harvard’s failure to protect them from targeted racism and harassment on campus, discriminating against them for being Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, and students supporting Palestinian rights.

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Last year at this time, during my graduate studies in public health, I wrote my final paper titled, “Settler Colonialism, Health, and Palestine”, for a course on "Global Perspectives on Racism, Poverty, and Power" taught by the amazing @MagdaMatache at @HarvardChanSPH .

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@yipengGe

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Keep boycotting - it works. Especially when we do it together as a community. Never stop boycotting - once a genocide supporter…how does a company recover from that? Boycotting is something tangible and immediate that we call all do wherever we are to show & practice solidarity.

Sky News

@SkyNews

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World's biggest coffee chain cuts sales forecast and misses market expectations amid boycotts

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@yipengGe

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My friend, it was my honour and privilege to be in community with you and @sasa_ghada , to share space and time with you. Thank you for what you do on multiple frontlines, standing for justice and equality. Onwards as we do everything in our power for Palestinians in Gaza. ❤️‍🩹❤️

Khaled 🇵🇸

@palithreads

2 months

I had the honour and privilege to watch these two icons @sabreenaGS & @yipengGe speak today. So proud of their fierce advocacy and willingness to take a principled stance for human rights regardless of the consequences. So much love for you both ❤️🇵🇸✊ thank you! #FreePalestine

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@yipengGe

2 months

Absolutely heartbreaking. 💔 I thought of the walks outside I would take alongside my brother - and I cannot even begin to imagine the suffering of being executed one at a time in the streets for simply existing. Palestinians are being denied the right to exist and live.

Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده

@RamAbdu

2 months

Heartbreaking moments captured the Israeli snipers targeting and cold-bloodedly executing the two young men, Amro Khalid Al-Fara and his brother Mohammed, while they were inspecting their demolished home in Khan Yunis city. #GazaGenocide

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@yipengGe

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History will judge poorly upon the university administrators who choose to vehemently side with an oppressive force committing genocide, rather than support their own students and learners with the moral clarity and ethics to demand justice and divestment. We will never forget.

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@yipengGe

2 months

“You should know better.” Now is the time to act. Do everything within your power to act, to protest and to speak up, to bring an end to this genocide in Gaza.

Faizal Mammar

@faizal_mammar

2 months

🚨Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza: ‘the images and videos coming out of Gaza are not for likes. We need you to act’

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A pleasure to meet you too, Margaret. I appreciated our wide-ranging conversation on anti-Palestinian racism, and on identity, power, and privilege. And to have the chat with @SarahJama_ who I befriended during my formative years in undergrad studies was inspiring and hopeful. ❤️‍🩹

Margaret Shkimba

@menrvasofia

2 months

I went to interview @SarahJama_ and got a surprise treat in meeting @yipengGe . What an honour to be able to speak with both of them. We can be proud of the next generation standing up for a better future for all of us. #CeasefireNow

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@yipengGe

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I've signed this letter from healthcare workers to the Canadian government for urgent action on the humanitarian and human rights crisis unfolding in Gaza. Please consider signing ASAP, it only takes a few minutes.

Kavita Algu

@KavitaAlgu

4 months

Healthcare workers in Canada: Please add your voice to/share this open letter calling for concrete action from our government in the face of the humanitarian and human rights crises in Gaza.

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@yipengGe

4 months

This open letter is now at 3591 signatories. There is safety in numbers and in community - we lean on one another, in solidarity. I am specifically so proud of the healthcare learners and trainees who have signed this letter. Read & sign the letter here:

Urgent Statement Against the Israeli Destruction of the Health System in Gaza

November 10, 2023 Dear Colleagues, We invite anyone working or studying within the field of health and healthcare across so-called Canada to sign the statement below with signatories. This letter has...

docs.google.com

Health Workers Alliance for Palestine

@HA4Palestine

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At least 20 of Gaza’s 35 hospitals are now non-functional, and those remaining open are facing a barrage of attacks, lack of supplies, and a ticking clock before they run out of fuel. Sign now! Share widely!

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@yipengGe

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What solidarity work requires, I believe, is a confrontation of one’s own privilege and identity. And of course, how structural and internalized oppression also affects and limits how we can show up as our authentic selves.

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@yipengGe

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It’s been over a month since I did this interview on February 26, 2024, a few days after I returned to Canada. Over these past few weeks, the conditions in Gaza have only gotten worse. This is genocide.

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@yipengGe

2 months

I had the honour and privilege of being in community yesterday evening in Ottawa hearing and sharing perspectives on the ongoing genocide in Gaza and moving forward through collective action and solidarity work.

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@yipengGe

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This was the best news I heard today. The donations that Dr. @AlviFozia and I delivered to local partners in Gaza only a week ago, has already helped fund the first of multiple medical points for delivering primary healthcare to people that need it the most. Onwards and upwards.

Humanity Auxilium Canada

@humanity_aux

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Today was the official opening of the first medical point in the middle area - Al-Zawaida. Primary care services will be offered here. Funded by the generous donations people have entrusted to us to deliver tangible outcomes that directly benefit people on the ground in Gaza.

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There are countless stories of healthcare workers being targeted, assaulted, arrested, tortured and executed. In this case, an orthopaedic surgeon who refused to abandon his patient that he was operating on. This is what @CMA_Docs commits to remain “neutral” on. Disgraceful.

Tiberius

@ecomarxi

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Please, read this. This is what Israel is. This monstrosity, the Western leaders want us to believe, is our ‘ally.’ We can choose our humanity, or we can choose Israel, but we can’t choose both.

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@yipengGe

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We continue to call it a humanitarian crisis. But that assumes there are humanitarian solutions. There is no such solution right now in Gaza. No amount of humanitarian aid will solve this. We need a ceasefire now. Only then can humanitarian aid efforts meaningfully help Gaza.

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@yipengGe

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Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

2 months

This Palestinian boy in Gaza is spending Ramadan alone for the first time after his family were killed in Israeli bombardment.

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@yipengGe

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The ongoing flour massacres continue during Ramadan. People are being killed for trying to access food aid. @UNRWA workers attacked and killed trying to deliver aid from their food distribution center. Where is humanity?

‘Death trap’: Israeli forces kill six in new attack on Gaza aid seekers

The deadly incident comes after an Israeli air strike on an UNRWA-run aid centre kills at least five people in Rafah.

www.aljazeera.com

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@yipengGe

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Power to all the students and young people making good trouble. 🔥✊ Youth are the now, not simply the future. ❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹

#StopCopCity 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

@micahinATL

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Professor Ruha Benjamin ( @ruha9 ) using her honorary degree address at Spelman to denounce Atlanta’s Cop City, the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, and the repression of student activists 💜

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@yipengGe

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Sharing with permission, a text exchange with my friend & colleague who works at the Emirati hospital in Rafah, where yesterday a paramedic on duty was killed with 10 others and over 50 injured, including young children. Stop this madness now. This is unacceptable. I’m so angry.

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@yipengGe

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The practice of medicine, caring for patients and communities, is inherently political - addressing the root causes of disease and suffering. Health advocacy for Palestinians fits within this scope. Medical students are being targeted for their solidarity - this is so wrong.

Health Workers Alliance for Palestine

@HA4Palestine

4 months

🩺Help protect the NEXT GENERATION of physicians! Medical student advocates for #FreePalestine should NOT be punished for showing solidarity. We are calling for urgent action to ensure the @CaRMS_CA residency match is fair and free from political targeting. #called2theoffice

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