Medicine has an ancient covenant: treat the patient in front of you, without prejudice, without exception. Public trust in healthcare depends on neutrality, professionalism, and the belief that every patient and practitioner will be treated fairly, regardless of religion, nationality, politics, or identity.

That trust is beginning to erode and Congress has taken notice. 

In May, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce‘s Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions held Congress’s first hearing focused specifically on antisemitism in healthcare. What emerged was a picture of a professional environment increasingly struggling to uphold the standards it claims to represent. Subcommittee Chairman Rick Allen (R-GA) and members from both parties delivered a message the healthcare establishment can no longer ignore: take action, or Congress will. 

Jewish healthcare professionals are facing exclusion from opportunities, retaliation for speaking out, and pressure to renounce their identity or remain silent. Medical organizations are calling for boycotts of Israeli doctors, technology, and medicines. Prestigious journals are refusing to publish research on antisemitism. Unions are endorsing terrorist sympathizers and recommending hospitals exclude Israeli colleagues. Jewish patients are being refused treatment and fear that........

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