At the national conference for the main doctors’ professional association, 10% of the motions to be debated revolve around Gaza. Predictably, this has led to a situation where Jewish doctors now feel intimidated and unsafe at the British Medical Association (BMA) event or—as the Jewish Medical Association puts it—members attending the conference “feel intimidated, unsafe and excluded.”
Estimates suggest that 10% of BMA conference time was dedicated to Gaza because of the 45 separate motions under consideration. This does not include fringe events, such as “A Voice 4 Palestine,” staged on Monday, June 23rd.
The 50,000-strong BMA represents ‘resident doctors,’ formerly known as junior doctors. Its activist turn has dragged it in the direction of radical left student union politics. In April, medics’ leaders slated the Supreme Court ruling defining sex in law as biological as “reductive” and “scientifically illiterate.” At the time this dubious approach to medicine was derided, with MCC Brussels Director Frank Furedi telling europeanconservative.com:
If you don’t know the difference between a man and a woman you should not have a licence to practice medicine.
