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Medicine and the Nonsense of 'Blood Libels'

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02.09.2026

Would you trust your life with this man?

Recently, I had to be knocked out for a brief medical procedure. It’s apparently the only way to prevent me from writing an article for Townhall. Two pieces of immediate information: the nurse was an Arab fellow and the anesthetic was Propofol. If that name rings a bell, it should. That is the same drug that was given to Michael Jackson, and he never woke up from it. If we go by the JD Vance/Tucker Carlson “Blood Libel” theory, there is no way that I should have let this fellow push the plunger on that syringe. Instead, I said to him, “Good night.” He said the same, and we spoke again 40 minutes later when the procedure was over.

I don’t know why JD Vance and Tucker Carlson are pushing “genetics” and “blood lines” when dealing with Israelis/Jews and Arabs/Muslims. The fellow who put me to sleep is an Israeli Arab; the only difference between such and a Palestinian is where their parents lived when hostilities ended in 1967. I did not question him on his politics or ask him to sing Israel’s national anthem, Hatikva. Many Arabs work as doctors, nurses, pharmacists, bus drivers, mechanics, and more. That is the reality of Israel. That is the reason why the apartheid claim is rubbish. If it were true, my nurse would have been named Moshe and no Arab would have been present. But such is not the case. Arabs have been given such preference in medicine that many Jewish students go to Europe to get their medical degrees, as there are not enough positions in Israel for everybody. I never had a doubt about the professionalism of this fellow, and I worked on the assumption that if he was working in the medical facility where we were, then he met all of the standards set by the state and the clinic. The idea of some type of racism, blood libel, or genetic hatred is total garbage. What we are dealing with is politics........

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