Harvard Cancels Gaza Panel: "Divisive Content"
Hold on, The event was clearly one-sided. If you’re going to discuss the healthcare impacts of war,…
It wasn’t meant to be a debate on the conflict itself. This is about healthcare and the human cost of war. By canceling it, Harvard is essentially saying that Palestinian suffering doesn’t matter unless it’s “balanced” with Israeli suffering. That’s not how medicine or human rights work.
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If the event was framed as a humanitarian discussion, fine, but it was part of a medical school curriculum. Medical education should be objective and inclusive. Excluding Israeli perspectives creates a biased narrative, which is inappropriate for an academic setting. Harvard made the right call.
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