{"id":2130455,"date":"2023-12-21T05:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T10:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-georgetown-med-the-doctors-of-tomorrow-arent-hiding-their-support-for-terrorism\/"},"modified":"2023-12-21T05:22:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T10:22:56","slug":"at-georgetown-med-the-doctors-of-tomorrow-arent-hiding-their-support-for-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/at-georgetown-med-the-doctors-of-tomorrow-arent-hiding-their-support-for-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgetown Med: Tomorrow&#8217;s Doctors Embrace Terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fat-georgetown-med-the-doctors-of-tomorrow-arent-hiding-their-support-for-terrorism%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2130455&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><blockquote>\n<h2>Future physicians must support &#8216;the resistance&#8217; or find another career field, first-year med\u200c student Nicole Olakkengil \u200dsays<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption>(Win McNamee\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>At Georgetown University Medical School, a flurry of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media posts<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-leaves-town-without-passing-health-spending-bill-with-conservative-provisions\/\" title=\"House leaves town without passing health spending bill with conservative provisions\">future medical professionals<\/a> justifying Hamas&#8217;s Oct. 7 massacre\u2064 is raising a troubling question: Can doctors support terrorism?<\/p>\n<p>An\u2062 array of Georgetown Med students since the attack have taken \u2064to Instagram to praise the &#8220;Palestinian resistance&#8221; and argue that violence against innocent civilians is &#8220;inevitable&#8221; \u2064given Israel&#8217;s &#8220;apartheid&#8221; and &#8220;settler colonialism,&#8221; screenshots obtained by the \u2064 <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> show. One student, Nicole Olakkengil, even urged her classmates who \u2064refuse to &#8220;stand &#8230; with the resistance&#8221; to &#8220;maybe try entering a different field,&#8221;\u200c as &#8220;medicine is inherently political.&#8221; In some cases, those students are already working in Washington, D.C.-area hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>The students&#8217;\u2064 willingness to\u200d justify, defend, and even praise the worst attack against Jews since the Holocaust raises questions \u200bas to how those students will treat Jewish \u2062patients when they become doctors\u2014and whether doctors can support terrorism while staying \u200cwithin the bounds of medical ethics.<\/p>\n<p>Georgetown Med itself compels students to recite the Hippocratic Oath at its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/left-wing-activists-tried-to-cancel-this-pro-life-doctor-they-failed\/\" title=\"Left-Wing Activists Tried To Cancel This Pro-Life Doctor. They Failed.\">annual white coat ceremony<\/a>. That oath\u2063 calls on doctors to remember that they &#8220;remain a member of society, with special obligations to all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sean-penn-writes-angry-letter-blasting-staff-who-complained-about-vaccine-distribution-site-working-conditions\/\" title=\"Sean Penn Writes Angry Letter Blasting Staff Who Complained About Vaccine Distribution Site Working Conditions\">fellow human beings<\/a>.&#8221; At the \u200bschool&#8217;s 2023 ceremony, held in August, Professor Stephen Ray Mitchell also <a href=\"https:\/\/som.georgetown.edu\/news-stories\/school-of-medicine-class-of-2027-encouraged-to-be-advocates-for-their-patients-during-white-coat-ceremony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">urged students<\/a> \u2063to practice medicine \u2064in\u2063 a \u200bway that is\u2063 &#8220;more inclusive\u200b for our\u200c patients.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These \u2064students have disqualified themselves from a career in medicine. No Jewish patient can have confidence that they will treat them consistent\u200b with the Hippocratic \u2062Oath,&#8221; said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, \u200bformer University of Pennsylvania \u200bSchool of Medicine associate dean and father of <em>Free Beacon<\/em> chairman Michael Goldfarb. \u2063&#8221;There\u2063 was a long and \u2062unfortunate history of physicians \u200cin the Nazi regime acting in the most vile and barbarous manner to support that hateful ideology. These students \u200care mimicking that vileness. If I were still acting as an associate \u200bDean and were in that medical school, I would\u2063 call for their dismissal from the school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Included among the school&#8217;s Hamas sympathizers is \u2062first-year student Yusra \u200bRafeeqi, who shared an Instagram post that defended Hamas&#8217;s Oct. 7 attack as &#8220;Palestinian resistance&#8221; and \u2063argued that &#8220;radical change \u2064requires radical moves.&#8221; Olakkengil, a fellow first-year student, similarly contended \u200cthat &#8220;violent retribution is inevitable in the\u2062 struggle for resistance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So many of you going into medicine \u200dhave been quiet or outright supporting \u2064genocide,&#8221; she wrote on Instagram. &#8220;Medicine is inherently \u200dpolitical and we have to stand with the \u2063oppressed and for the resistance. If not,\u200c re-evaluate why you&#8217;re going into medicine and maybe \u200btry entering a different field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Other \u200dGeorgetown Med students, including \u200dsecond-year Badr Abdullah and\u200c first-year Rhea\u200c Shetty, publicly disparaged supporters\u2063 of the Jewish state. Abdullah in an Instagram \u200bpost\u200c mocked &#8220;loser racist z*on*st bums,&#8221; while Shetty \u2063said \u2063&#8221;pro Israeli people \u2026 cannot critically think.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m sorry but just know that\u200d when I look you in the eyes, I don&#8217;t have a\u200b single drop of respect for \u2062you,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Rafeeqi, Olakkengil, Abdullah, and Shetty did not \u2062respond to requests for comment. Abdullah works as a research assistant at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington,\u200d D.C.&#8217;s\u200b largest \u200cprivate \u200bhospital, according to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/badr-abdullah-22703112a\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a>. Rafeeqi is \u2062a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/yusra-rafeeqi-5a7446187\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">volunteer<\/a> at\u200c the Hoya Clinic, Georgetown&#8217;s student-run clinic that serves D.C. residents.<\/p>\n<p>The four students \u200care far from the only Georgetown \u200bMed doctors-in-training to endorse \u2062Hamas&#8217;s terror attack on Israel. Second-year Anita Kuang in an Instagram post blamed Hamas&#8217;s attack on Israeli &#8220;apartheid\/settler \u2062colonialism,&#8221; arguing that there is &#8220;little\u2063 to \u200cnothing else&#8221; for Palestinians to do to enact change\u200d besides killing Jews.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To try to say \u2018there&#8217;s violence\u2063 on both sides\u2019 is wack when it is an asymmetrical relationship to begin with where one side continually \u200cenacts systemic violence,&#8221; Kuang said of Israel.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Another Georgetown Med\u2062 student, Mominah Subhan, shared an Instagram post arguing that those who support Palestinians must support Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you\u2064 support Palestine understand that necessitates supporting our right to defend ourselves and \u200cliberate our homeland by any means necessary,&#8221; the post said. &#8220;You cannot claim to stand with Palestine if you&#8217;d prefer \u2064us \u2064to be slaughtered\u200b without fighting back. Freedom has only\u2062 ever been \u200dachieved\u2063 through resistance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For second-year student Niyat Esaias, meanwhile, it may be unfair to call Hamas fighters &#8220;terrorists,&#8221; given that \u2063&#8221;they\u200d are fighting \u200cagainst oppression.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Call Palestinians whatever you want in the moment,&#8221;\u200c Esaias said in an Instagram \u200dpost, &#8220;but without a\u2062 doubt history will always show that\u200d they are the oppressed battling against their oppressors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Kuang, Subhan, and Esaias did not respond to requests for comment. It&#8217;s unclear how\u2014if at all\u2014Georgetown Med\u200c will\u2064 address \u2064the rampant\u200d anti-Israel\u200c and\u200b anti-Semitic rhetoric espoused by its students. The university did not return a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Still, at least one doctor-to-be at the school, Olakkengil, believes Georgetown Med students should be held accountable for their views\u2014though she applies that belief only to her classmates who support Israel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How are so many of you \u2026 actively supporting\u200b genocide\u2063 right\u200d now? And SO many of you are in public \u2062service jobs, including health care,&#8221; she said in an Instagram post.\u200b &#8220;Like let&#8217;s bring back name and shame because \u200bsome of you deserve to be @&#8217;d for your\u2062 abominable actions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What are\u2063 the potential consequences of these students justifying violence and supporting terrorism for their impartiality, empathy,\u200b and commitment\u2064 to patient care?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Colonialism&#8221; and stated that &#8220;violence is only inevitable when peaceful means have failed.&#8221; Another second-year student, Maria Lopez, defended Hamas&#8217;s actions as a response to Israeli &#8220;oppression.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>These\u200c disturbing social media posts raise serious \u2062concerns about the future of medical professionals and their \u200dability to uphold their ethical responsibilities. \u2062Medicine, as Nicole Olakkengil pointed out, is indeed a political \u200bfield. However, it is essential for future physicians to\u200c understand that supporting terrorism and justifying violence against\u200c innocent civilians goes against the very principles of medicine and the Hippocratic Oath.<\/p>\n<p>The Hippocratic \u2064Oath \u2062is \u200ca solemn pledge taken by medical professionals, \u2064including\u2063 those at Georgetown University Medical School. It emphasizes the duty of doctors to treat all fellow human beings and places special obligations on them as members of society. By justifying violent acts and sympathizing with \u200dHamas, these students have shown a clear disregard for\u200d these fundamental principles.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Stanley\u200d Goldfarb, a former\u2064 associate dean at the University of Pennsylvania \u200bSchool of\u200b Medicine, articulates the concern\u2062 that these students cannot \u200bbe \u200dtrusted to\u2064 provide unbiased and compassionate care, particularly to Jewish patients. He draws attention to the disturbing history\u2064 of physicians in the Nazi regime who supported hateful ideologies and highlights the risk of these students mimicking such vileness.<\/p>\n<p>It is not just a matter of personal opinions \u200bor political\u200d beliefs; these\u2063 students&#8217; public\u200c endorsement of terrorism raises \u200bquestions about their impartiality, empathy, and commitment to patient care. Can they truly provide unbiased treatment to\u200c individuals \u2062they label as oppressors? \u200bCan \u2063they separate their \u200bpersonal \u200cbiases from their professional responsibilities?<\/p>\n<p>Georgetown University Medical School must take these concerns seriously and thoroughly investigate the actions of these students. The \u2062school has\u2063 a responsibility to ensure that its future physicians uphold the highest standards of medical \u2063ethics and prioritize\u2062 the well-being of all patients, regardless of their race, religion, or nationality.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, this case underscores the broader\u200b issue of political polarization infiltrating various\u2064 professional fields. It is essential to recognize that personal political beliefs must not compromise professional integrity. In the healthcare field, where trust, empathy, and respect for human life are paramount, \u2064physicians must approach their work with impartiality, \u2063compassion, and a commitment \u200cto the well-being of all individuals.<\/p>\n<p>If these \u200dfour \u2062students continue to\u200c hold \u200btheir extremist views and maintain their support for terrorism,\u200d appropriate actions must be taken to protect \u200dthe reputation and \u200bintegrity of Georgetown University Medical School. Dismissing them from the program, as suggested by \u2062Dr.\u200d Stanley Goldfarb, may be necessary\u2062 to restore confidence in the school&#8217;s commitment to patient care and medical ethics.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/final-straw-hollywood-reporter-sources-say-disney-wanted-to-fire-carano-in-november\/\" title=\"\u2018Final Straw\u2019: Hollywood Reporter Sources Say Disney Wanted To Fire Carano In November\">recent social media posts<\/a>\u200c by future medical professionals at Georgetown University Medical School, endorsing terrorism \u2063and justifying \u2062violence, raise serious concerns about their ability to fulfill their ethical obligations as physicians. Supporting terrorism is incompatible \u200bwith the principles of medicine and the \u200dHippocratic Oath. Georgetown must address these concerns\u2064 and take appropriate action to ensure that its future physicians prioritize the well-being of all patients and maintain the highest standards \u2063of medical ethics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are defending Hamas&#8217;s actions, prompting concerns about their suitability as future physicians. Nicole Olakkengil, a first-year med student, asserts that those who cannot support &#8220;the resistance&#8221; should consider pursuing a different career path. 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