Medical ethics, the Israeli Medical Association, and the state of the World Medical Association

Editor—I commend Summerfield for his forthright open letter to the BMA.¹ As a member of a June 2003 medical delegation to the West Bank, representing four organisations within the US Jewish peace movement, I can personally testify to the violations of medical neutrality that are a daily fact of life for Palestinians living under occupation. Too many people remain ignorant of the Israeli government's abuse of Palestinians' right to health and health care, especially in the United States and, indeed, Israel. Actions directed at the World Medical Association may help to publicise these facts. This is also a goal of the Jewish American medical project.²