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November 8, 2023

Health Professionals and War in the Middle East

Author Affiliations
  • 1University of Colorado Center for Bioethics and Humanities, Aurora
JAMA. 2023;330(22):2155-2156. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.24247

There is ongoing debate on university campuses about how leaders should respond to recent events in Israel and Gaza.1 Many campus leaders have responded with generic talking points: grief at the taking of innocent lives, condemnation of all forms of racism, reminders about the rights conferred by the First Amendment to the US Constitution, and offers of psychological support for those in need. Others have staked out stronger positions, such as promising to “stand with Israel, with the Palestinians who suffer under Hamas’s cruel rule in Gaza, and with all people of moral conscience.”2

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