Calls to Action

Dear DARA supporters,

Unfortunately the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published last week a slanderous article in its medical journal accusing Israeli forces of human rights violations in Gaza in this past summer’s Israeli defensive conflict Operation Protective Edge with Hamas.

Israeli forces are accused of Wide Ranging Human Rights Violations in Gaza Last Summer
BMJ 2015; 350 doi: […]

Dear DARA supporter,

Please take time to read the accompanying letter from a colleague and sign the petition if you agree.

Sincerely,
DARA executive

August 3, 2014

As scientists, researchers, and medical practitioners, we were shocked and astounded to read the “Open letter for the people in Gaza” by Manduca et al in the 23 July issue of The Lancet. The […]

Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Prime Minister
Republic of Turkey

c/o Mr. Tuncay Babali
Ambassador
Republic of Turkey
197 Wurtemburg Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 8L9

Dear Prime Minister Erdogan,

We are writing to express our grave concern for your government’s brutal suppression of democratic dissent, and your unacceptable attacks on our medical colleagues, whose sworn duty is to treat the injured and relieve suffering.

Your actions […]

Dr. Jeffrey Goldstein and Dr. Steve Samuel are members of DARA (Doctors Against Racism and Antisemitism), which seeks to ensure that medical publications avoid promulgation of subjective articles aimed at vilifying any race, nation or country. Visit their website at www.daradocs.org.

“Israeli Doctors Accused of Collusion in Torture”. This is only an accusation, but when it […]

To: Dr. Bashar al-Assad
President of Syria

via Imad Moustapha, Ph.D.
Ambassador of Syria (US)

We are writing again out of deep concern how our (your) profession is prevented or penalized for carrying out their humanitarian duties in Syria.

We understand that some fifty four medical personnel (nurses, doctors, and medical students) have already been killed by your security […]

This letter is being sent to King Hamad of Bahrain.

Doctors Against Racism and Anti-Semitism are deeply troubled by reports reaching us on the sentencing of doctors and health workers to long prison terms. Their sworn duty, as with all members of the medical profession world-wide, is to heal the wounded, and alleviate human suffering, without […]

Dear DARA membership.

We are writing to inform you of an important cause that we are supporting. We ask that you please review the below information and support the cause. It is very important that we support doctors of all races and religions who are discriminated against for carrying out their medical practices. DARA has already […]

OMA CRUISE

DARA is pleased to announce that The Ontario Medical Association has taken the honourable, moral, and correct course of action pertaining to the upcoming CME cruise to Dubai and United Arab Emirates.

Last week, DARA contacted The OMA and expressed its concern that Israeli nationals would not be allowed to participate in the conference, in […]

SUSAN G. KOMEN FOR THE CURE BREAST CANCER CONFERENCE 

UPDATE:

The conference is now open to all advocates. Thank you for sending e-mails and exercising your right to demand equality for all

The following e-mail was sent to DARA on behalf of the founder of Susan G. Komen For The Cure

“Thank you for contacting Susan G. Komen for […]