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by Inna Lazareva
October 3, 2014
The editor of The Lancet has expressed his “deep regret” to Israeli doctors after his journal published a controversial letter in the wake of the Gaza war co-authored by two scientists who had previously circulated Ku Klux Klan material.
Addressing the physicians and staff at the Rambam hospital in the northern city of Haifa, Israel on Thursday morning at the end of his three-day visit to the country, Prof Richard Horton began by saying that he intended to “set the record straight” about his views and those of his colleagues. Last month, The Telegraph published an article about the extreme opinions expressed by some of the authors of the British medical journal’s ‘Open letter for the people of Gaza’.
Two of the authors – Dr Paola Manduca and Dr Swee Ang – had previously circulated and promoted a link to a video clip featuring an anti-Semitic diatribe by David Duke, a white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard. In the footage, Duke claims that “the Zionist Matrix of Power controls Media, Politics and Banking” and that “some of the Jewish elite practices racism and tribalism to advance their supremacist agenda”
Professor Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet, completed three days of seminars and meetings with senior researchers and physicians at Rambam and the Technion’s Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine. His visit was initiated by Professor Karl Skorecki, Director of Medical Research at Rambam, and Professor Rafi Beyar, Director of Rambam, followed by the endorsement of the Israeli Ministry of Health, following The Lancet’s publication of a controversial open letter that accused Israel of war crimes.
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