Over a thousand health professionals demand boycott of Israeli Medical Association over Gaza genocide

More than 1,150 health professionals and organisations have signed a petition calling for a boycott of the Israeli Medical Association (IMA), accusing it of failing to uphold medical ethics during Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The campaign, led by the People’s Health Movement (PHM), Artsen voor Gaza (Doctors for Gaza) and the Health Advisory Council of Jewish Voice for Peace, is demanding that the IMA be suspended from the World Medical Association (WMA).  Campaigners accuse the IMA of silence in the face of Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s health system, the killing and detention of Palestinian medical workers and torture in Israeli detention centres. According to PHM, the campaign seeks to “end medical complicity” and press the global medical community to act […]