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Source: https://spectator.org/when-medical-journals-sell-hate-propaganda-the-lancet-crosses-the-line-again/
When Medical Journals Sell Hate Propaganda: The Lancet Crosses the Line (Again)
(American Spectator) Prof. Gerald Steinberg - Respected scientific publications - particularly medical journals - are supposed to be highly professional, and to avoid partisan media's cynical manipulation in which verifiable evidence is too often replaced with myths and half-truths. The Lancet, founded in 1823, traffics in boycott campaigns targeting top doctors and medical researchers, and has transformed into a platform for hate that spits in the face of its neutral scientific mission. For its latest discriminatory and anti-scientific act, the Lancet is playing a central role in a campaign for an all-encompassing boycott of the Israel Medical Association (IMA). It is platforming and amplifying a petition promoted by radical fringe groups that recycles false slogans of "genocide" and blames Israel for the destruction of Gaza's medical infrastructure. The promoters of this campaign erase overwhelming evidence showing that it was Hamas and its allies that exploited and undermined Gaza's hospitals for terror, which resulted in their ruin. This attack on the IMA is simply another part of the multi-front war to vilify everything related to Israel. The systematic entrenchment of Hamas forces and weapons in Gaza's hospitals - real war crimes - is entirely omitted. The writer is founder and president of NGO Monitor, and professor emeritus of political studies at Bar-Ilan University.