this post was submitted on 25 Jan 2025
255 points (97.0% liked)

News

24232 readers
4179 users here now

Welcome to the News community!

Rules:

1. Be civil


Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.


2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.


Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. We have an actively updated blocklist, which you can see here: https://lemmy.world/post/2246130 if you feel like any website is missing, contact the mods. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.


3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.


Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.


4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.


Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.


5. Only recent news is allowed.


Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.


6. All posts must be news articles.


No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.


7. No duplicate posts.


If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.


8. Misinformation is prohibited.


Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.


9. No link shorteners.


The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.


10. Don't copy entire article in your post body


For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Harvard Medical School canceled a planned Jan. 21 lecture on wartime healthcare and a subsequent panel with patients from Gaza receiving care in Boston in response to objections that students would hear from Gazans impacted by the war and not also Israelis.

Course instructors and students were notified Tuesday morning that the events — scheduled for that evening — would not be held.


Students had organized the moderated discussion with patients and their families as a follow-up to Levy’s lecture, which was not focused specifically on Gaza.


Jones said that Arabic-speaking Medical School students who had served as interpreters for patients from Gaza in Boston asked course staff to arrange the session with Levy and patients’ families.

“Students often find that the presence of a patient who is interviewed and discusses their experiences is often far more engaging, powerful, and moving than hearing a professor carry on about the pathophysiology of disease,” Jones said.

The optional session was part of the course’s original spring semester curriculum and was approved by HMS administrators, according to Jones.

top 12 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] sjmulder@lemmy.sdf.org 109 points 5 days ago (1 children)

To balance it out, they should have 1 Israeli patient for every 39 Gazan patients.

[–] Silverseren@fedia.io 69 points 5 days ago

I think the ratio is up to 43 now, actually.

Harvard is Zionist and has the same biases as the american elite. In other news, water is wet.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not every issue has two sides worth listening to.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 2 points 3 days ago

They should have an Israeli pilot there to explain how he made sure to hit exactly the right spot in the school he bombed.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 5 days ago

After the initial cancellation, the organizers briefly received conditional approval to host the event as a student group, separately from the Essentials course. Less than an hour later, at roughly 11:30 a.m., they were told they could not host the event at all.

Fuck Harvard.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 25 points 5 days ago (1 children)

If these last 15 months taught me anything, it's that I shouldn't step foot anywhere near the US education system. What the fuck is this?

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

All the "top" schools hitched themselves to Corporate bandwagons decades ago. They're now parasitically interwoven in "innovation," which is why "success" no longer matters what you know, only who you have access to.

Their Corporates with multi-billion dollar endowments who pretend to be paupers, who have no qualms whatsoever about thumbing the scales of society to their own whims, as this case perfectly exemplifies.

[–] Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago

So they needed some IDF people mixed in to yell "they deserved it" every few minutes?

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 16 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How many times have only the Jews been listened to in political discussion over the Israel/Palestine territory?

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 14 points 5 days ago

Correction: It's the Zionists, who are occasionally also Jews. Organizations like Jewish Voice for Peace are not being listened to.

[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago