Doctors Against Racism and Antisemitism - DARA

12/31/2025

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The anti-Semitic terrorist attack at Bondi Beach in Sydney has prompted urgent warnings across media, civil society, and faith leadership that ritual condemnations, absent meaningful action, are failing to prevent escalating violence against Jews.

11/04/2025

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The Israeli hostages freed from terrorist captivity are now home, but the path to healing will be long and complex. Medical teams report that while their visible injuries are being treated, the deeper emotional and psychological wounds are only beginning to emerge. “There is a multisystemic impact...

10/01/2025

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Welcome to the team, Casey Babb! Join us in welcoming Casey Babb to the team! Casey is one of Canada's foremost experts on anti-Semitism. He brings invaluable knowledge and experience to DARA. Behind the scenes on our efforts to stop anti-Semitism at Sherbrooke University Since May of this year, DA...

06/30/2025

It's our new newsletter! You'll find top recent stories including a new Israel-affiliated health tech accelerator in the U.S., word that the British Medical Association dedicated 10% of motions at its recent conference to targeting Israel and an surprising twist to a long-running anti-Israel activism saga in California. Find it all here:

_______________________ Sheba Medical Center launches U.S. health tech accelerator Leadership at a top Israeli hospital recently launched a new overseas initiative designed to stop anti-Semitism. That was part of the thinking underpinning a new Boston-based accelerator from Sheba Medical Center ...

05/30/2025

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- A Quebec social media group dedicated to medical students and applicants was revealed this month to be infested by anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry
- Canada's medical schools are failing to support Jewish students, wrote Barbara Kay last week
- New research suggests much of the anti-Semitism in medicine may stem from an increase in foreign-educated physicians

_______________________ Quebec med school social media group revealed as anti-Semitic B’nai Brith Canada recently revealed the existence of a group channel, hosted on the social media platform Discord, in which a group of Quebec students engaged in anti-Semitic, racist, misogynistic and homophobi...

04/30/2025

In our latest newsletter, we ask why medical associations don't seem to be as concerned for Gazan doctors who are victims of Islamic terror groups as they are for alleged improprieties by the Israeli military. Find it here, plus other news from around the world of DARA.

_______________________ Learning universal lessons from the Holocaust Last week we commemorated the Holocaust on Yom HaShoah Vehagvurah, Holocaust Remembrance Day in Israel.  In that spirit we are sharing 15 universal lessons from the Holocaust as considered by honorary DARA board member Irwin Cotl...

03/31/2025

Our pre-Passover newsletter has a bunch of good news stories we've been following. See them here!

_______________________ Israeli medical student organization reinstated We were heartened this month that the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations has reinstated its Israeli member organization. The reversal, which had been advocated for by DARA, overturned an August vote b...

03/12/2025

Very happy to see that the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations has reinstated its Israeli member organization.

"It was clear that this was an outrageous political decision that has no place in the world of medicine," stated Uriel Bosso, the Israeli minister of health.

02/28/2025

Happy to share our latest DARA newsletter - with all the latest and greatest. Find it here!

_______________________ Mazel Tov! We're proud to congratulate our very own honorary board member Irwin Cotler, who was in the news twice this month. First he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Then later in the month it was announced that he will receive a Defender of Freedom Award. Presente...

02/20/2025

Mazel Tov to our very own Irwin Cotler, who will be honoured with the Defender of Freedom Award.

https://genevasummit.org/canadian-human-rights-icon-irwin-cotler-to-receive-defender-of-freedom-award