Let me tell you why I won’t sign a petition circulating right now asking to reinstate Dr. Yipeng Ge and to launch an enquiry into uOttawa Faculty of Medicine that supposedly has decided to suspend this resident physician in his 4th year of Public Health and Preventive Medicine.
This doctor has been very active on X (former Twitter) in relaying messages against the military operations of the IDF in Gaza. I am against any action by university authorities which aims to limit freedom of expression in academia. I will not sign the petition, but this person has the right to express his views against Israel, against the Jews who live in Israel, and in favour of the Palestinians.
I think this doctor has a tendentious view on this conflict. The only message he relayed after the massacre perpetrated by Hamas on October 7 against Israeli citizens and residents of Israel (workers from Nepal, Thailand and Israeli Muslim Bedouins), and the kidnapping of children, grand-moms, mothers, soldiers, as well as the rape and sexual assault of young Jewish girls, is a short text from someone who presents an "explanation" or "justification" for the jihadist violence of Palestinian terrorists:
After that, not one reposting nor one message from this person talking about the massacre of October 7 or the hostages that Hamas and Islamic Jihad are keeping in their tunnels as tokens to negotiate with Israel. This doctor can say whatever he wants, but he cannot expect that his hypocritical and selective defence of human rights could help him to pass as someone who really cares for "health and social equity."
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