The details about Saira Rao’s antisemitic and baseless alarm can be found here: “American ‘anti-racism’ activist condemned over ‘terrified about Zionist doctors’ claim,” by Lee Harpin, Jewish News, January 3, 2024:
Responding [to Saira Rao], Daniel Sugarman, director of public affairs for the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said: “Just say ‘Jewish’, Saira, this is taking forever.”…
“Zionist” for Saira Rao means “Jewish” — it is not “Zionist” doctors, but all Jewish doctors, wherever they may practice and whatever they think of Israel, that she believes cannot be trusted to treat Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, South Asian and black patients.
Remarks about sinister Jewish doctors operating on, and harming, non-Jews take us all the way back to the antisemitic stories in the Middle Ages about Jews killing Christian children and using their blood to make Passover matzos. Think of such examples as Little Saint Hugh of Lincoln or William of Norwich, both children whose deaths were falsely attributed to Jews, leading to pogroms against innocent members of local Jewry. The most famous version of charges against Jews performing medical procedures in recent times was the so-called Doctors’ Plot “uncovered” in Moscow in the early 1950s , where doctors, overwhelmingly Jewish, were accused of having deliberately mistreated certain patients, high-ranking Soviet officials, so that they died; the most famous of those-claimed victims was Zhdanov. Those involved in the “Doctors’ Plot” were said to be plotting to kill more Soviet leaders, including Stalin himself. Naturally they were arrested, and some executed, with others saved from a similar fate when Stalin’s death in March 1953, put an end to the whole murderous farce.
In 2023, Saira Rao has simply provided the latest installment in the long-running antisemitic tales about wicked Jewish stealers of Christian blood, and “Zionist” doctors.
On Tuesday she tweeted: “To the haters of my medical tweet, genuinely curious how the entire medical profession can be inoculated from Zionism? And why it’s unreasonable to be afraid for Muslims who have doctors who are cheering on Israel’s genocide?”Lastly, the majority of Zionists are Christian.”
Why must all doctors be “inoculated from Zionism”? Do they cease to give good care if they support the existence of the tiny Jewish state? Rao’s remark ignores the fact that in Israel, Israeli Arabs receive the same standard of care as do Jews; they are treated by the same medical personnel, both Jewish and Arab doctors and nurses, in the same hospitals. No Israeli Arabs have ever expressed fear of “Zionist” — i.e., Jewish — doctors, unlike Ms. Rao. And we know that leaders of both the PA and Hamas have been treated themselves, and had their family members treated, by “Zionist” doctors in Israeli hospitals – doctors whom they expressly requested.
Last year the Creative Artists Agency severed ties with Rao after she made inflammatory comments about Israelis, referring to them as “bloodthirsty genocidal ghouls” who are so “obsessed with land and power and money that you murder newborns to obtain this STUFF”.
The only “newborns” being murdered are the Jewish babies who were murdered by Hamas operatives in the kibbutzim on October 7. Some of them were even beheaded; others were burned alive along with older children. She offers no examples of Jews deliberately killing babies because there are none. Palestinian babies have died in Gaza, but only because they were being used as human shields by Hamas, in harm’s way because rocket launchers, weapons, and operatives had been deliberately placed by Hamas in schools, mosques, apartment buildings. The IDF does as much as it can to warn civilians away from buildings about to be targeted, by means of messaging, telephoning, leafletting, and use of the “knock-on-the-roof” technique, but there will always be those who ignore these warnings or do not act on them in time, which explains those civilian casualties, including children. Apparently all these ongoing efforts by the IDF to minimize civilian casualties have escaped Saira Rao’s notice.
She claimed that “the vast majority of white Americans are pro-genocide”, as is the CAA [Creative Artists Agency, that severed all ties with Rao because of her antisemitic rants] for failing to condemn what she alleged was the ongoing genocide of Palestinians….
If Israel is “genocidal,” then how is that in 1967, when Israel came into possession of Gaza after the Six-Day War, the Arab population of the Strip was 410,000, and in 2005, when all Israelis, both civilians and soldiers, were pulled out of Gaza, the Arab population was 1.3 million, a more than threefold increase? And when Israel took control, after the Six-Day War, of Judea and Samaria (a/k/a the West Bank), the Arab population was 600,000; today it is 3 million, a fivefold increase. Does that sound like “genocide”?
In 2018 Rao ran for Congress, losing out to incumbent Democrat Diana DeGette in the primary.
Saira Rao is not ready for Congress. But she is more than ready for the Laughing Academy.
KuhnKat says
““Zionist” for Saira Rao means “Jewish” — it is not “Zionist” doctors, but all Jewish doctors, wherever they may practice and whatever they think of Israel, that she believes cannot be trusted to treat Palestinian, Arab, Muslim, South Asian and black patients.”
Yet, even Hamas leaders will go to Israel for advanced medical care…
Ray Jarman says
Even Mahmoud Abbas went to those evil Jewish doctors during the Chinese pandemic and he was given the best treatment that anyone could find anywhere in the universe.
bagsgroove says
I do believe the only patients treated by muslim doctors are other muslims,as long as their doctors are of the same type of islam. I remember reading somewhere that a female muslim doctor wanted to poison jewish patients.
Cam says
Dropped my muslim Dr, islam can’t be trusted! What’s that word for lying? Taqqiya?
Siddi Nasrani says
It’s Taqqiya plus,
The Hadith makes it clear that Muslims are allowed to lie to unbelievers in order to defeat them or protect themselves. There are several forms:
Taqiyya – Saying something that isn’t true as it relates to Muslim identity (i.e whether one is a Muslim or what that means). This is a Shiite term: the Sunni counterpart is Muda’rat.
Kitman – Lying by omission. An example would be when Muslim apologists quote only a fragment of verse 5:32 (that if anyone kills “it shall be as if he had killed all mankind”) while neglecting to mention that the rest of the verse (and the next) mandate murder in undefined cases of “corruption” and “mischief.”
Tawriya – Intentionally creating a false impression by saying something that is technically true, when knowing that the listener will interpret it in a different way. This practice has a broader application than taqiyya.
Muruna – ‘Blending in’ by setting aside some practices of Islam or Sharia in order to advance others.
Big Dude says
Where do these idiots come from. Another protectionist. And ugly soul inside and out
Chief Mac says
Islamofascism is a supremacist, genocidal, racist, lying cult that exists to hate everyone including other Islamofascist