ADL decries anti-Israel Lancet letter

The Anti-Defamation League denounces a July 23rd anti-Israel open letter in a leading medical journal, calling it “unabashedly propagandistic.”

“The Lancet has failed its readership and sullied its reputation by publishing a one-sided perspective on the recent hostilities resulting from Hamas’s indiscriminate firing of missiles and rockets at millions of Israeli civilians,” says Abraham Foxman, ADL’s National Director. “The open letter is unabashedly propagandistic, charging Israel with full culpability for the situation in Gaza and failing to even reference Hamas actions. The outrageousness of this editorial choice was compounded by the editor’s decision to allow their web site to be used to collect more than 20,000 signatures in support of the letter and suggests The Lancet itself was part of this hideous campaign.”

The Lancet letter said that Israel and Israeli doctors bore full responsibility for what happened in Gaza.