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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Update: Israel and Hadassah dispute claim Israelis not barred from Cairo "Cure" conference

Nancy Brinker, founder and head of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure
organization that raises significant amounts of money to fight breast
cancer, claimed last week that despite threats in Egypt, Israelis were not
barred from the Cairo conference.

But the Foreign Ministry and the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization said
they had been.

Stop boycotts of Israelis at international medical conferences, IMA demands
Oct. 27, 2009
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich , THE JERUSALEM POST
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256557978205&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull

The Israel Medical Association on Tuesday denounced all boycotts of Israelis
at international medical conferences such as the one held in Cairo last week
on coping with breast cancer.
IMA chairman Dr. Leonid Eidelman said that Israeli doctors and scientists
are often confronted by hostility when attending professional conferences
abroad.

Eidelman said that medicine and science are not political. Even those who
oppose policies of the government of Israel should never inject politics
into these fields, which aim to save lives and to which Israelis contribute
a great deal, he said.

He called on the government to launch a serious campaign against such
boycotts and have "zero tolerance" for them. The IMA, he said, would be
happy to participate in such efforts.

Eidelman added that conferences that keep Israelis out would constitute a
"black day for science in Israel and around the world."

Nancy Brinker, founder and head of the Susan G. Komen for the Cure
organization that raises significant amounts of money to fight breast
cancer, claimed last week that despite threats in Egypt, Israelis were not
barred from the Cairo conference.

But the Foreign Ministry and the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization said
they had been.

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