When I was 5, almost 6 we lived in Manhattan and down the block and across the street there was Central Park, no entrance, but you could climb over the wall and walk down to the pond. I was with a friend, and we watched as a boy of about 16 murder three little boys. They were in a canoe and each had to jump from the boat to the shore and if they fell into the water he killed them by holding their heads under water until they didn't move anymore. The first two went silently to death, but the last one pleaded and begged, but he too was held under the water and drowned. His white shirt became his sail and it floated him away. I don't know whether they caught this killer, a teenager. When I think of him now I know he was soulless, and that is what Israel has become, and we are becoming. It's really the only way I can understand the horror in pictures I see everyday, and I feel that most strongly when they go into hospitals and kill the most vulnerable devoid of any sense of humanity.
Particularly relevant is Dr. Marya's call out of JAMA as providing moral cover for Israel’s obliteration of health care facilities in Gaza. Recall that the journal also provided that same moral cover for the COVID lies of the FDA and CDC and serves as a major Pharma mouthpiece, given its ad-driven model. Just another exemplar of how corrupt is the disease-care industry, including its collaborating acolytes, its academic partners.
It is difficult to witness the horror of Gaza go continually on, the sheer evil, gone unopposed, and largely unquestioned. Particularly to see the complicity and abetting by institutions such as universities and the British Journal of Medicine, the silencing and attacks upon those few within those ranks, such as Dr. Marya, by the entities that are theoretically (and in their own view) the holders of truth, of compassion."the medical institutions we are a part of, which have an obligation, professionally and morally, to uphold all life, are actually abetting genocide, abetting and enabling genocide".
It is easy to see the self-interested intent of figures such as Scott Wiener, and perhaps even academicians lacking courage, choosing some rationalization rather than living a principle.
But how are we to understand the more encompassing phenomenon of the failure of the wider part of society to see the obvious horror of what is being perpetuated on the people of Gaza?
I think that it is the examination of this question that perhaps need to be considered.
Again, easier to comprehend in considering the case of of Zionists, whose ideology itself is predicated on de-humanization and the denial of the right of existence to Palestinian Arabs. (Though perhaps allowing second class citizenship to Arab Jews.) And to a certain extent, the collective trauma of the Jews, something akin to a societal version of the abused child becoming the child abuser.
But the phenomenon of entire populations, such as the U.S. to allow this, to not even SEE it as it is - the obvious, inarguable reality - how can we understand this?
Because it is this flaw in us collectively, is what allows it, and the endless recurrences throughout history, that is seemingly bound to what we are.
Racism is only a starting point, religion only a starting point, economic power and tribalism only a part of it, but they all grow out of it, they are the manifestations, they are the ideologies upon which actions are justified, but the impulse lies somewhere else.
Thank you for this so important and timely interview with Dr. Rupa Marya about the role of the “the genocide enablement apparatus of Israel.” I have been troubled for months over the silence of the AMA as hospital after hospital has been destroyed and medical personnel murdered, known by volunteer doctors who have gone to Gaza and returned.
Thank you, Dr. Marya, for your courage, strength and devotion to healing and to the Palestinians and for organizing and writing about the unspeakably painful atrocities being enacted. Such hard work you are doing. The silencing, isolation and "moral injury" you describe is traumatic.
From another heartbroken Substack:
"The Doctor", a poem for Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya by Palestine Will Be Free:
It began by criminalising any display of compassion, solidarity, sympathy or even pain in response to the terrible punishment of Gaza. Such views are considered treasonous. Israelis expressing compassion or humanity on social media have been monitored and summoned for police investigation. Some have been fired from their jobs.
This form of McCarthyism has mainly harmed Palestinian citizens of Israel, but sympathetic Jews, too, have evoked a harsh response from authorities. In essence, compassion has been outlawed. It cannot be expressed towards Palestinians - not even dead, wounded, hungry, disabled or orphaned babies. All are rightfully being subjected to the punishments Israel inflicts.
He also states "Losing its collective humanity vis-a-vis the Palestinian people may prove irremediable for Israel. That the country will reclaim it after this war is exceedingly doubtful."
I was just wondering if this isn't being used to simply implement more authoritarian control over it's citizenry and the excuse used is anti-Semitism. I
Authoritarianism is creeping into Europe under the guise of cracking down on pro-Palestinian activism.
Every genocide in human history until now has been done in relative secrecy, or has taken place slowly using starvation and disease. Rapid, violent exterminations of entire populations have never been extensively reported or documented in real time, and the wider world has never had access to detailed information about a genocide in progress. Reporting from the killing fields during a genocide has always been extremely limited, and only after the fact does it become widely known. Another difference with this genocide is that in the modern era, post-1945, no state or non-state group committing a genocide has ever continually and openly advertised its intent. These two factors mean that the world is in uncharted territory. The entire world apart from Yemen and Lebanon is complicit. And we’re not talking about a few weeks—it’s been 15 months. The United Nations and international law has been exposed as the most monstrous, grotesque black joke. Every single institution in the world has been tainted. If a genocide can be done openly and with impunity over more than a year, nothing is off limits. Humanity as a whole has entered an unprecedented state of barbarism. Unless the world joins together soon to dismantle the genocidal entity—the US government and its vassals—complete annihilation of human life is not far off.
Could someone like a lawyer explain if the 1st Amendment of freedom of speech has been nullified? I do not understand if the 1st Amendment still protects freedom of speech and is still in effect , how can anyone be fired for what they say?
The first amendment doesn't exist anymore. In the U.S. the constitutional bill of rights is now at the whim of the oligarchs and their paid for politicians. Freedom of speech, freedom of the press and the freedom of peaceful protest are now gone. Unless you want to talk about flowers and protest a tulip garden.
Good point. The Bill of Rights only prohibits government from limiting free speech. So as private entities, corporations can--and do. It's a wonderful irony how they're legally considered "people" with rights.
I remember reading, years ago, about the genocide, the torture, in Guatemala, that the worst of the torturers were the doctors. Not the ordinary soldiers, poor boys who were drafted. The doctors, educated men who were there by choice.
Opposing the owning class has never been safe. I.W.W. organizers in the Pac NW were hung; one was also castrated. Labor activist Eugene V. Debs was sent to prison by the U.S. government for opposing WWI as about capitalism and empire. (It was.) Quaker and 7th Day Adventists were also imprisoned because their pacifism was considered a threat to the state. In 1985, the family home of the African American and green collective MOVE was firebombed by Philadelphia police. In a grisly reminder of how Native American remains have been treated, the bones of two of the children who died in the fire were used by Penn and Princeton as abstract study subjects.
The difference now is high tech. New! Improved! Far removed from any acknowledgement of common humanity as if it were no more than a video game. More efficient, more deadly, more likely to destroy all life. The ice cold technocrat neocon perpetrators think in either/ors--powerful or irrelevant, conqueror or conquered, top elite few or bottom loser many. Those they use are propagandized. Good or evil. Us or them. Supporters of freedom or supporters of terrorism. So if "we" are good, the supporters of freedom, "they" must be evil terrorists. And anyone who says anything favorable about "them" is taking the side of evil and cannot be tolerated.
Cui bono? Plutocrats, oligarchs, and war profiteers.
Brava, Brava, Brava! More and more like you in the days to come, we should be so lucky. But if we are, then maybe this species has a chance to survive.
Israel is engaged in dehumanizing it's own people in regard to the carnage they are implementing in Gaza, as well as having a say in other countries as well. Cut off a people's capacity for empathy and you have a soulless society. I was glad to see Ireland step out from the crowd and be able to identify with the Palestinians based on their own history.
The Zionists will continue to do this, unless and until stopped. Moral arguments are wasted on sociopaths.
Reward and punishment is the only language that they understand.
When I was 5, almost 6 we lived in Manhattan and down the block and across the street there was Central Park, no entrance, but you could climb over the wall and walk down to the pond. I was with a friend, and we watched as a boy of about 16 murder three little boys. They were in a canoe and each had to jump from the boat to the shore and if they fell into the water he killed them by holding their heads under water until they didn't move anymore. The first two went silently to death, but the last one pleaded and begged, but he too was held under the water and drowned. His white shirt became his sail and it floated him away. I don't know whether they caught this killer, a teenager. When I think of him now I know he was soulless, and that is what Israel has become, and we are becoming. It's really the only way I can understand the horror in pictures I see everyday, and I feel that most strongly when they go into hospitals and kill the most vulnerable devoid of any sense of humanity.
Particularly relevant is Dr. Marya's call out of JAMA as providing moral cover for Israel’s obliteration of health care facilities in Gaza. Recall that the journal also provided that same moral cover for the COVID lies of the FDA and CDC and serves as a major Pharma mouthpiece, given its ad-driven model. Just another exemplar of how corrupt is the disease-care industry, including its collaborating acolytes, its academic partners.
It is difficult to witness the horror of Gaza go continually on, the sheer evil, gone unopposed, and largely unquestioned. Particularly to see the complicity and abetting by institutions such as universities and the British Journal of Medicine, the silencing and attacks upon those few within those ranks, such as Dr. Marya, by the entities that are theoretically (and in their own view) the holders of truth, of compassion."the medical institutions we are a part of, which have an obligation, professionally and morally, to uphold all life, are actually abetting genocide, abetting and enabling genocide".
It is easy to see the self-interested intent of figures such as Scott Wiener, and perhaps even academicians lacking courage, choosing some rationalization rather than living a principle.
But how are we to understand the more encompassing phenomenon of the failure of the wider part of society to see the obvious horror of what is being perpetuated on the people of Gaza?
I think that it is the examination of this question that perhaps need to be considered.
Again, easier to comprehend in considering the case of of Zionists, whose ideology itself is predicated on de-humanization and the denial of the right of existence to Palestinian Arabs. (Though perhaps allowing second class citizenship to Arab Jews.) And to a certain extent, the collective trauma of the Jews, something akin to a societal version of the abused child becoming the child abuser.
But the phenomenon of entire populations, such as the U.S. to allow this, to not even SEE it as it is - the obvious, inarguable reality - how can we understand this?
Because it is this flaw in us collectively, is what allows it, and the endless recurrences throughout history, that is seemingly bound to what we are.
Racism is only a starting point, religion only a starting point, economic power and tribalism only a part of it, but they all grow out of it, they are the manifestations, they are the ideologies upon which actions are justified, but the impulse lies somewhere else.
Thank you for this so important and timely interview with Dr. Rupa Marya about the role of the “the genocide enablement apparatus of Israel.” I have been troubled for months over the silence of the AMA as hospital after hospital has been destroyed and medical personnel murdered, known by volunteer doctors who have gone to Gaza and returned.
Thank you, Dr. Marya, for your courage, strength and devotion to healing and to the Palestinians and for organizing and writing about the unspeakably painful atrocities being enacted. Such hard work you are doing. The silencing, isolation and "moral injury" you describe is traumatic.
From another heartbroken Substack:
"The Doctor", a poem for Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya by Palestine Will Be Free:
https://palestinewillbefree.substack.com/p/the-doctor
I just found this article written by Giddeon Levy, something to back up my perception of things
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-war-israel-lost-humanity-celebrate-power-kill
Gideon writes,
It began by criminalising any display of compassion, solidarity, sympathy or even pain in response to the terrible punishment of Gaza. Such views are considered treasonous. Israelis expressing compassion or humanity on social media have been monitored and summoned for police investigation. Some have been fired from their jobs.
This form of McCarthyism has mainly harmed Palestinian citizens of Israel, but sympathetic Jews, too, have evoked a harsh response from authorities. In essence, compassion has been outlawed. It cannot be expressed towards Palestinians - not even dead, wounded, hungry, disabled or orphaned babies. All are rightfully being subjected to the punishments Israel inflicts.
He also states "Losing its collective humanity vis-a-vis the Palestinian people may prove irremediable for Israel. That the country will reclaim it after this war is exceedingly doubtful."
I was just wondering if this isn't being used to simply implement more authoritarian control over it's citizenry and the excuse used is anti-Semitism. I
Authoritarianism is creeping into Europe under the guise of cracking down on pro-Palestinian activism.
Josephine Solanki
Project officer at TNI
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/1/8/a-disturbing-pattern-of-repression-is-emerging-in-europe
Every genocide in human history until now has been done in relative secrecy, or has taken place slowly using starvation and disease. Rapid, violent exterminations of entire populations have never been extensively reported or documented in real time, and the wider world has never had access to detailed information about a genocide in progress. Reporting from the killing fields during a genocide has always been extremely limited, and only after the fact does it become widely known. Another difference with this genocide is that in the modern era, post-1945, no state or non-state group committing a genocide has ever continually and openly advertised its intent. These two factors mean that the world is in uncharted territory. The entire world apart from Yemen and Lebanon is complicit. And we’re not talking about a few weeks—it’s been 15 months. The United Nations and international law has been exposed as the most monstrous, grotesque black joke. Every single institution in the world has been tainted. If a genocide can be done openly and with impunity over more than a year, nothing is off limits. Humanity as a whole has entered an unprecedented state of barbarism. Unless the world joins together soon to dismantle the genocidal entity—the US government and its vassals—complete annihilation of human life is not far off.
Could someone like a lawyer explain if the 1st Amendment of freedom of speech has been nullified? I do not understand if the 1st Amendment still protects freedom of speech and is still in effect , how can anyone be fired for what they say?
The first amendment doesn't exist anymore. In the U.S. the constitutional bill of rights is now at the whim of the oligarchs and their paid for politicians. Freedom of speech, freedom of the press and the freedom of peaceful protest are now gone. Unless you want to talk about flowers and protest a tulip garden.
Because the First Amendment doesn't apply to private actors.
Good point. The Bill of Rights only prohibits government from limiting free speech. So as private entities, corporations can--and do. It's a wonderful irony how they're legally considered "people" with rights.
Please support Doctors Against Genocide at https://doctorsagainstgenocide.org
General Strikes for the common good. Rupa rocks!
I remember reading, years ago, about the genocide, the torture, in Guatemala, that the worst of the torturers were the doctors. Not the ordinary soldiers, poor boys who were drafted. The doctors, educated men who were there by choice.
Opposing the owning class has never been safe. I.W.W. organizers in the Pac NW were hung; one was also castrated. Labor activist Eugene V. Debs was sent to prison by the U.S. government for opposing WWI as about capitalism and empire. (It was.) Quaker and 7th Day Adventists were also imprisoned because their pacifism was considered a threat to the state. In 1985, the family home of the African American and green collective MOVE was firebombed by Philadelphia police. In a grisly reminder of how Native American remains have been treated, the bones of two of the children who died in the fire were used by Penn and Princeton as abstract study subjects.
The difference now is high tech. New! Improved! Far removed from any acknowledgement of common humanity as if it were no more than a video game. More efficient, more deadly, more likely to destroy all life. The ice cold technocrat neocon perpetrators think in either/ors--powerful or irrelevant, conqueror or conquered, top elite few or bottom loser many. Those they use are propagandized. Good or evil. Us or them. Supporters of freedom or supporters of terrorism. So if "we" are good, the supporters of freedom, "they" must be evil terrorists. And anyone who says anything favorable about "them" is taking the side of evil and cannot be tolerated.
Cui bono? Plutocrats, oligarchs, and war profiteers.
Brava, Brava, Brava! More and more like you in the days to come, we should be so lucky. But if we are, then maybe this species has a chance to survive.
Israel is engaged in dehumanizing it's own people in regard to the carnage they are implementing in Gaza, as well as having a say in other countries as well. Cut off a people's capacity for empathy and you have a soulless society. I was glad to see Ireland step out from the crowd and be able to identify with the Palestinians based on their own history.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-war-israel-lost-humanity-celebrate-power-kill