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January 18, 2024

Anti-Semitism Goes to Medical School, under the Protection of DEI

Patients, not future doctors, are the “vulnerable population.”

Apparently just mentioning the word “Palestinian” can get a medical-school class canceled, at least if the professor doing the mentioning is Jewish. Sheldon Rubenfeld, in a course he has taught at Baylor College of Medicine for the past twenty years, routinely cites his own experience helping a suicidal Palestinian to illustrate the need for physicians to set aside their own political biases. Last spring, this example caused an unexpected reaction:

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