Israel leads the world in cancer prevention — but now, "activists" are blocking the very research, screening systems, and medical knowledge that could save patients worldwide.
Maybe the Jews should get together and hold their own convention or symposium on cancer research. There are enough Jewish scientists and medical researchers that they really could do this on their own. Stop whining. Stop asking the Jew-haters to let them into their club. We really don't need them but we need Jewish scientists who want to save lives.
they do fine now without or they have other ways to get the information. I find it incredulous that Israeli researchers will lose anything really. From my understanding is that most researchers do not share information and are in competition with each other for who can find the answers first.
There is no greater cause now in the West than the Anti-Zionist crusade to destroy Israel, it is a mandatory Progressive belief and a litmus test that separates the Good people from the Bad.
Like all mass manias aimed at Jews, it is metaphysical, existential and conspiratorial and has taken on a life of its own that has blown far past any tangible causes or reasoned arguments.
Israel is now the West's Emmanuel Goldstein (it's not a coincidence that Orwell made him Jewish), a condensed symbol of evil and the scapegoat that's been piled with all the modern neuroses of the post-God West—settler-colonial, genocide, racism, apartheid etc—the Jewish scapegoat ritual being maybe the last shared belief that can gather a critical mass of true-believing secular Westerners.
The Free Palestine! cult doesn't actually care about the actual Palestinians, they encourage every one of their terrorist schemes even when it's obvious this will only further immiserate them, and they would gladly see a million Palestinians killed if it meant that Israel died too.
Mass manias are like perpetual-motion machines, they are all-consuming and uncontrollable, and the BDS/Free Palestine! cult members don't care about cancer patients, American Jews, or about any other possible negative consequences of their deranged crusade. They are simply lost souls who've pledged their lives to Anti-Zionism and there will be no reasoning with them. And all the current attempts at appeasement by feckless spineless liberals have only made them stronger, as they realize no one on the left side of the aisle will lift a finger to oppose them.
They will have to be confronted and defeated, somehow.
The irony here is that the progressives who are promoting BDS claim to be advocating for black and brown communities. These are the same communities that are being missed and under-resourced in the US. In other words, these are the communities that would benefit most from Israeli discoveries.
Roy - you are not wrong. Here is who is NOT boycotting Israel in the cancer world - ASCO, UICC, Stanford University Hospitals. I was very disappointed that none of the OncoDaily conferences had any Israeli speakers I could find.
When I was a lawyer at Gibson Dunn in D.C., we took our summer associates to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. A survivor spoke to us and said something that stuck with me:
Lawyers need to know the holocaust did not begin with camps. It began when Jews were removed from institutions - above all, legal institutions. Judges stripped of their robes. Lawyers disbarred. Then, when law-groups were Judenrein, they codified laws that made discrimination systematic and "legal."
First, you remove the Jews from the institutions. Then, Jews can be discriminated against without representation.
On Monday, Mayor Mamdani announced his 18-member Advisory Committee on the Judiciary. The Committee was promised to be "truly reflective of New York City."
Not one of the 18 is Jewish.
Not one Jewish attorney, former judge, or law professor - in a city where one in eight residents is Jewish and even Justice John Leventhal, recommended by the State's Chief Judge, was rejected.
It is estimated that over 50% of the New York bar is Jewish. That means there is a 0.0004% chance of no Jews being selected to the Committee.
Mamdani’s marginalization of Jews has been ongoing, and few voices on the Left have spoken up.
On Day 1, Mamdani revoked the IHRA antisemitism definition (top priority); he changed the NYPD guidance protecting houses of worship, eliminated Jews from the City's immigrant-heritage map, called for the arrest of the prime minister of the only Jewish state, and now created a Judenrein Judiciary Committee.
My grandmother, Leah, survived Nazi Germany. Before the laws, before the violence, she told me how she was pushed out of her high school groups. Then, once excluded from all activities, she was bullied and marginalized.
We are already seeing Step 2 in NYC. Two weeks ago, on a Jewish Holiday, two men were stabbed outside Upper West Side synagogues - one wearing a kippah- and yesterday, Jewish students were attacked. Every 26 hours, there is a hate crime against Jews in NYC.
In NYC, there is a concerted effort to disappear Jews from public life and leadership.
No one on the Left is speaking out. If this discrimination was happening to any other group, the chorus would be deafening.
To be clear, Jews will find a way. Many are already taking their talents elsewhere. When white-shoe firms shut Jewish lawyers out, they built firms that now dominate. Cardozo, Louis Marshall, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg all found a way despite discrimination.
But NYC will be worse off without us. A city government that is judenrein - cleansed of Jews – does not just hurt the Jews, but hurts the city.
The tragedy is not just that Jews were left out of the institutions. It is that the institutions were left without the Jews.
If you see this and have not yet spoken out, I encourage you to do so.
Who started this label "progressives"? I persistently correct this misnomer whenever & wherever possible to "you mean 'regressives' (as a statement of fact, not as a question) the silent responses are well worth the effort. Every word counts.
This quiet boycott is sadly true and it actually predates October 7. Jewish academics in all fields of science should pivot to Asia, specifically to India that has bigger intellectual potential than all of the West sans Jews and none of the deeply ingrained and quite regularly exploding prejudices to the Jews .
India sounds sane. Here in Tennessee Vanderbilt University testing scores and Ivy League status increased dramatically when in 2004 the new Chancellor decided to actively recruit East Coast Jewish students. Vanderbilt went from a sleepy aristocrat Southern University to a World Class powerhouse.
Imagination a world in which the brilliant contributions of Israelis to science and health are cut out while the world slobber over a people whose only contribution is new and innovative ways to murder innocents.
The irrational cabal that removes the Jew always fails. The more evil the sooner they fail. Stalin rid himself of his Jewish physicians, he perished soon after.
What I find truly sickening about these "cultural" and "academic" boycotts is the unshakable, self-congratulatory performance of moral superiority of the instigators while they betray the foundational principles of their disciplines and art forms.
Joelle, you hit the nail right on the head. Reading this, I am deeply disgusted, but I cannot say I am shocked. Not even a little bit.
For people my age, it is infuriating that we have to watch this history repeat itself. We actually believed the world learned its lesson after the horrors of the last century, but it was just wishful thinking.
These academic administrators and conference boards running the "quiet" boycotts are the exact same as the old crowd—they just wear nicer suits now.
The sheer cowardice is what gets me. The world would literally rather let people die of cancer than share a room with an Israeli doctor. It defies all logic. But then again, logic never applies when it comes to the Jewish people.
I always look at the numbers and ask people a simple question: why are there only 15 million Jews in the entire world? Think about it. The world population explodes into the billions, other religions count their followers by the hundreds of millions, and we just sit there at 15 million, never any more than that. Why? Because every single time we start to build, every time we start to thrive and grow, they find a way to cut us down. They massacre us, they exile us, and now they try to erase us from the global stage.
This is exactly why we have a permanent responsibility to protect Israel, no matter what. It is our ancestral land. It is the holy land where we came from, and it is the one place on this earth that guarantees we do not have to beg some other nation for permission to exist.
Look at what is happening on these campuses and global committees. This is not a debate over borders or modern politics. It simply proves what I have been telling people for decades: they have hated us for 3,000 years, period. It is hardwired into them. It is in their blood and their genetics, passed down like an incurable sickness from one generation to the next.
If these people want to shut out our breakthroughs and live in the dark, let them. We are going to keep building, keep fighting, and keep defending that sacred ground.
Honestly, at this point I think Israel and the Jews should become like the fictional DC country Wakanda from the Black Panther movies. A hidden super power with superior tech, medical, aeronautical and other industry innovations that isn’t shared with the world. They have told us time and time again we aren’t wanted, let’s do what they ask and see how they fare. Sick of this now.
This is the same group of fools that embrace Marxism and other woke ideology without having a clue about the consequences of these repressive policies.
It is not just the boycotting of Israel by the scientific, medical and academic community it is the concerted and well-organized effort to boycott and remove all Jews from these institutions, especially in the US, Canada, the UK and Europe. Jewish professors who are not Israeli are being sidelined, shunned and in some cases removed from professional organizations. Jewish enrollment in the so-called elite Ivy League schools is at an all-time low. Just as in the early part of the 20th century Jews had to create their own institutions to overcome both formal and informal boycotts, it is time to do the same again.
You are 100% right. I chose to focus on cancer because Israel is so far ahead in both community prevention and detection as well as innovation, it’s life threatening to exclude them.
We absolutely should be writing about all the different ways Israelis and Jews are being quietly boycotted. It is reprehensible.
My response to those who want to boycott Jews and Israel is: Please do not take or have your children take the polio vaccine (developed by Jews), do not use Waze, do not use any computers with Intel chips, do not use fertilizer that is created by the Haber process, let alone the hundreds of techniques, devices and research results created in Israeli academia and industry. Those countries that have nuclear weapons you should immediately give them up as Jewish physicists were instrumental in the development of nuclear fission research including the atomic and hydrogen bomb. Please stop reading all literature that was created by Jews, give up your Marc Chagall paintings, do not watch West-Side story or a host of other Broadway plays and on and on and on. Unfortunately, the antisemites will never change no matter what arguments are presented.
Didn't know that thanks, I will add it to my list. If the Jew haters would take five minutes and search all the contributions made by Jews and Israelis in science, medicine, literature, economics, the arts they would have to go back to living in caves and reading by firelight to stick to their boycott positions.
Very true. The shift of Jewish students applying to southern schools is documented. Clemson, University of Florida also are becoming prime locations while at the same time there has been a drop of about 5% applying to Northeastern and the Ivies.
One of my problems is that Israel continues to try and ingratiate itself with the world that hates it.
Keep your tech and genius innovations to yourselves and your friendly allies of those few nations that wish you well, or simply don't want your replaced by the sickos and psychos of Hamas plc.
Stop with the Eurovision and the sports. Don't enter teams to get yourselves shafted in Birmingham . Invite your friends to YOUR events. Start with Boy George. And let Spain and South Africa try their JuJu voodoo evils on their own cancer patients ...most of who probably voted for it all
Pearls before swine ...work out their own salvation , instead of destroying all hopes of yours!
Maybe the Jews should get together and hold their own convention or symposium on cancer research. There are enough Jewish scientists and medical researchers that they really could do this on their own. Stop whining. Stop asking the Jew-haters to let them into their club. We really don't need them but we need Jewish scientists who want to save lives.
Problem is the research sharing of ideas
they do fine now without or they have other ways to get the information. I find it incredulous that Israeli researchers will lose anything really. From my understanding is that most researchers do not share information and are in competition with each other for who can find the answers first.
Not my experience- scientists are collaborating globally even where data sharing is restricted by government policies.
There is no greater cause now in the West than the Anti-Zionist crusade to destroy Israel, it is a mandatory Progressive belief and a litmus test that separates the Good people from the Bad.
Like all mass manias aimed at Jews, it is metaphysical, existential and conspiratorial and has taken on a life of its own that has blown far past any tangible causes or reasoned arguments.
Israel is now the West's Emmanuel Goldstein (it's not a coincidence that Orwell made him Jewish), a condensed symbol of evil and the scapegoat that's been piled with all the modern neuroses of the post-God West—settler-colonial, genocide, racism, apartheid etc—the Jewish scapegoat ritual being maybe the last shared belief that can gather a critical mass of true-believing secular Westerners.
The Free Palestine! cult doesn't actually care about the actual Palestinians, they encourage every one of their terrorist schemes even when it's obvious this will only further immiserate them, and they would gladly see a million Palestinians killed if it meant that Israel died too.
Mass manias are like perpetual-motion machines, they are all-consuming and uncontrollable, and the BDS/Free Palestine! cult members don't care about cancer patients, American Jews, or about any other possible negative consequences of their deranged crusade. They are simply lost souls who've pledged their lives to Anti-Zionism and there will be no reasoning with them. And all the current attempts at appeasement by feckless spineless liberals have only made them stronger, as they realize no one on the left side of the aisle will lift a finger to oppose them.
They will have to be confronted and defeated, somehow.
The irony here is that the progressives who are promoting BDS claim to be advocating for black and brown communities. These are the same communities that are being missed and under-resourced in the US. In other words, these are the communities that would benefit most from Israeli discoveries.
So well written! Bravo!
Thanks!
Naming these institutions would at least be a response
Roy - you are not wrong. Here is who is NOT boycotting Israel in the cancer world - ASCO, UICC, Stanford University Hospitals. I was very disappointed that none of the OncoDaily conferences had any Israeli speakers I could find.
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This is superb! Written by Eli Albrecht.
When I was a lawyer at Gibson Dunn in D.C., we took our summer associates to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. A survivor spoke to us and said something that stuck with me:
Lawyers need to know the holocaust did not begin with camps. It began when Jews were removed from institutions - above all, legal institutions. Judges stripped of their robes. Lawyers disbarred. Then, when law-groups were Judenrein, they codified laws that made discrimination systematic and "legal."
First, you remove the Jews from the institutions. Then, Jews can be discriminated against without representation.
On Monday, Mayor Mamdani announced his 18-member Advisory Committee on the Judiciary. The Committee was promised to be "truly reflective of New York City."
Not one of the 18 is Jewish.
Not one Jewish attorney, former judge, or law professor - in a city where one in eight residents is Jewish and even Justice John Leventhal, recommended by the State's Chief Judge, was rejected.
It is estimated that over 50% of the New York bar is Jewish. That means there is a 0.0004% chance of no Jews being selected to the Committee.
Mamdani’s marginalization of Jews has been ongoing, and few voices on the Left have spoken up.
On Day 1, Mamdani revoked the IHRA antisemitism definition (top priority); he changed the NYPD guidance protecting houses of worship, eliminated Jews from the City's immigrant-heritage map, called for the arrest of the prime minister of the only Jewish state, and now created a Judenrein Judiciary Committee.
My grandmother, Leah, survived Nazi Germany. Before the laws, before the violence, she told me how she was pushed out of her high school groups. Then, once excluded from all activities, she was bullied and marginalized.
We are already seeing Step 2 in NYC. Two weeks ago, on a Jewish Holiday, two men were stabbed outside Upper West Side synagogues - one wearing a kippah- and yesterday, Jewish students were attacked. Every 26 hours, there is a hate crime against Jews in NYC.
In NYC, there is a concerted effort to disappear Jews from public life and leadership.
No one on the Left is speaking out. If this discrimination was happening to any other group, the chorus would be deafening.
To be clear, Jews will find a way. Many are already taking their talents elsewhere. When white-shoe firms shut Jewish lawyers out, they built firms that now dominate. Cardozo, Louis Marshall, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg all found a way despite discrimination.
But NYC will be worse off without us. A city government that is judenrein - cleansed of Jews – does not just hurt the Jews, but hurts the city.
The tragedy is not just that Jews were left out of the institutions. It is that the institutions were left without the Jews.
If you see this and have not yet spoken out, I encourage you to do so.
Who started this label "progressives"? I persistently correct this misnomer whenever & wherever possible to "you mean 'regressives' (as a statement of fact, not as a question) the silent responses are well worth the effort. Every word counts.
This quiet boycott is sadly true and it actually predates October 7. Jewish academics in all fields of science should pivot to Asia, specifically to India that has bigger intellectual potential than all of the West sans Jews and none of the deeply ingrained and quite regularly exploding prejudices to the Jews .
India sounds sane. Here in Tennessee Vanderbilt University testing scores and Ivy League status increased dramatically when in 2004 the new Chancellor decided to actively recruit East Coast Jewish students. Vanderbilt went from a sleepy aristocrat Southern University to a World Class powerhouse.
Imagination a world in which the brilliant contributions of Israelis to science and health are cut out while the world slobber over a people whose only contribution is new and innovative ways to murder innocents.
So true
Thanks for submitting this outstanding essay.
You are welcome. We need reasonable (or cancer anxious) people around the world to insist on Israeli inclusion.
This was important and thank you! I wrote about this on my Substack. You treat us like this, should we share? https://saguarosarcasm.substack.com/p/fine-well-build-wakanda-on-the-moonhttps://saguarosarcasm.substack.com/p/if-you-hate-jews-so-much-why-not In other words keep it to ourselves.
The irrational cabal that removes the Jew always fails. The more evil the sooner they fail. Stalin rid himself of his Jewish physicians, he perished soon after.
What I find truly sickening about these "cultural" and "academic" boycotts is the unshakable, self-congratulatory performance of moral superiority of the instigators while they betray the foundational principles of their disciplines and art forms.
Joelle, you hit the nail right on the head. Reading this, I am deeply disgusted, but I cannot say I am shocked. Not even a little bit.
For people my age, it is infuriating that we have to watch this history repeat itself. We actually believed the world learned its lesson after the horrors of the last century, but it was just wishful thinking.
These academic administrators and conference boards running the "quiet" boycotts are the exact same as the old crowd—they just wear nicer suits now.
The sheer cowardice is what gets me. The world would literally rather let people die of cancer than share a room with an Israeli doctor. It defies all logic. But then again, logic never applies when it comes to the Jewish people.
I always look at the numbers and ask people a simple question: why are there only 15 million Jews in the entire world? Think about it. The world population explodes into the billions, other religions count their followers by the hundreds of millions, and we just sit there at 15 million, never any more than that. Why? Because every single time we start to build, every time we start to thrive and grow, they find a way to cut us down. They massacre us, they exile us, and now they try to erase us from the global stage.
This is exactly why we have a permanent responsibility to protect Israel, no matter what. It is our ancestral land. It is the holy land where we came from, and it is the one place on this earth that guarantees we do not have to beg some other nation for permission to exist.
Look at what is happening on these campuses and global committees. This is not a debate over borders or modern politics. It simply proves what I have been telling people for decades: they have hated us for 3,000 years, period. It is hardwired into them. It is in their blood and their genetics, passed down like an incurable sickness from one generation to the next.
If these people want to shut out our breakthroughs and live in the dark, let them. We are going to keep building, keep fighting, and keep defending that sacred ground.
Honestly, at this point I think Israel and the Jews should become like the fictional DC country Wakanda from the Black Panther movies. A hidden super power with superior tech, medical, aeronautical and other industry innovations that isn’t shared with the world. They have told us time and time again we aren’t wanted, let’s do what they ask and see how they fare. Sick of this now.
If Israeli scientists invented a global cure for cancer, the BDS fanatics would push their way to the front of the line.
This is the same group of fools that embrace Marxism and other woke ideology without having a clue about the consequences of these repressive policies.
It is not just the boycotting of Israel by the scientific, medical and academic community it is the concerted and well-organized effort to boycott and remove all Jews from these institutions, especially in the US, Canada, the UK and Europe. Jewish professors who are not Israeli are being sidelined, shunned and in some cases removed from professional organizations. Jewish enrollment in the so-called elite Ivy League schools is at an all-time low. Just as in the early part of the 20th century Jews had to create their own institutions to overcome both formal and informal boycotts, it is time to do the same again.
You are 100% right. I chose to focus on cancer because Israel is so far ahead in both community prevention and detection as well as innovation, it’s life threatening to exclude them.
We absolutely should be writing about all the different ways Israelis and Jews are being quietly boycotted. It is reprehensible.
My response to those who want to boycott Jews and Israel is: Please do not take or have your children take the polio vaccine (developed by Jews), do not use Waze, do not use any computers with Intel chips, do not use fertilizer that is created by the Haber process, let alone the hundreds of techniques, devices and research results created in Israeli academia and industry. Those countries that have nuclear weapons you should immediately give them up as Jewish physicists were instrumental in the development of nuclear fission research including the atomic and hydrogen bomb. Please stop reading all literature that was created by Jews, give up your Marc Chagall paintings, do not watch West-Side story or a host of other Broadway plays and on and on and on. Unfortunately, the antisemites will never change no matter what arguments are presented.
100%. Moses shrugged.
Let’s not forget all Apple iphones, whose proprietary face recognition software is wholly Israeli developed
Didn't know that thanks, I will add it to my list. If the Jew haters would take five minutes and search all the contributions made by Jews and Israelis in science, medicine, literature, economics, the arts they would have to go back to living in caves and reading by firelight to stick to their boycott positions.
The southern schools want Jewish students. Vanderbilt actively recruits.
Very true. The shift of Jewish students applying to southern schools is documented. Clemson, University of Florida also are becoming prime locations while at the same time there has been a drop of about 5% applying to Northeastern and the Ivies.
One of my problems is that Israel continues to try and ingratiate itself with the world that hates it.
Keep your tech and genius innovations to yourselves and your friendly allies of those few nations that wish you well, or simply don't want your replaced by the sickos and psychos of Hamas plc.
Stop with the Eurovision and the sports. Don't enter teams to get yourselves shafted in Birmingham . Invite your friends to YOUR events. Start with Boy George. And let Spain and South Africa try their JuJu voodoo evils on their own cancer patients ...most of who probably voted for it all
Pearls before swine ...work out their own salvation , instead of destroying all hopes of yours!
Yes this does sound familiar. Moses called it the 10th plague.