Harvard Faculty Doctors Demand Release of Suspected Hamas Terrorist

Speaker calls to wipe Zionism off the Earth

Dr. Karameh Kuemmerle-Hawash, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, cuts a ribbon at an anti-Israel rally in Boston, January 6, 2024. Holding the top corner of the red banner in sunglasses is Scott Gilbert, who spoke some of the fiercest rhetoric at the event. Photo: Ira Stoll, The Editors.

Some faculty members at Harvard Medical School are demanding an immediate embargo on arms to Israel and the release of a Gaza doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, that the Israel Defense Forces says it is holding “for suspected involvement in terrorist activities.”

The doctors from Harvard and other Boston health care institutions made their demands at an outdoor event in Boston at noon today. Gathered on a public sidewalk outside the old Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, a crowd of 30 activists gathered for what was promoted as a “call out sick for Gaza” event. Wearing white lab coats, checkered keffiyehs, and scrubs, they unleashed a stream of inaccurate accusations demonizing Israel.