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Doctors Without Borders: Promoting Hate through Medicine
(Gatestone Institute) Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg - For half a century, Doctors Without Borders were respected for their work in war zones and disaster areas, where volunteers and employees treated the wounded and sick. Known globally as Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF, the NGO built its credibility on the principle that doctors are there to save lives, not to wage political campaigns. That reputation is now largely gone, and MSF has become a major platform for political and ideological propaganda campaigns. A new report by the NGO Monitor research institute, which I founded and lead, documents how MSF has been transformed into one of the most aggressive institutional promoters of anti-Israel messaging. Since Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023, massacre, MSF and its regional affiliates have falsely accused Israel of "genocide" at least 272 times on social media. On Oct. 7, while Hamas terrorists were still murdering and raping civilians in Israel, dragging hostages into Gaza, and live-streaming their "conquests," MSF officials were accusing Israel of war crimes. Its first statement reduced the largest mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust to an "escalation between Israel and Gaza." The writer is founder and president of NGO Monitor.