Jewish doctor is heckled at BMA meeting while raising concerns about Palestinians

A Jewish doctor was heckled with shouts of “shame” as she spoke out in defence of Palestinians in Gaza at the BMA’s annual representative meeting (ARM) in Belfast this week.Speaking at the conference on 24 June, Jo Sutton-Klein proposed an emergency motion that raised concern over the ARM agenda committee attempting to remove more than 30 motions from the agenda relating to Gaza “because they didn’t agree with them.”Sutton-Klein said, “In the initial letter from the agenda committee one of the justifications for the silencing of these motions was they might be perceived as antisemitic. So I want to stand up here today, as a practising Jew, to say there is nothing”—when she was interrupted by a few members of the audience shouting “shame.”After the outburst, she continued, “There is nothing Jewish about the attempt to remove motions that you disagree with. And the idea that undemocratically removing motions from…
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