Thread by @BenNephrology

Update🧵Dr.Thea Weisdorf @UnityHealthTO-actions+(non)apology

Refresher:Early June,she went to @occupyuoft encampment,wrapped in #israel flag+confronted pro-Palestinian @UofT students:

"I hope you guys never need health care from U of T. That's all I can say"

1/ @HA4Palestine

Suggesting she could withhold care to @UofT students because they were against #Israel gen0side understandably shook the medical community.

June 5: @UnityHealthTO released a statement in which Thea Weisdorf was not named, but was the obvious topic.



2/unityhealth.to/2024/06/statem…

It wasn't reassuring-How would @UnityHealthTO protect Muslim or Palestinian med students or patients from Dr. Thea Weisdorf?

Would Weisdorf continue as Awards, Grants+Funds Lead for the Dept of Family+Community Medicine?

No answer... @UofTFamilyMed

3/dfcm.utoronto.ca/news/dfcm-facu…

What about the "process to investigate further" that St. Michael's Hospital @UnityHealthTO promised to complete?

Well the results of this process were communicated to the Department of Family and Community Medicine (see attached).
@UofTFamilyMed @HA4Palestine
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Summary of Investigation:
1. "We have high standards of professional and ethical conduct" at @UnityHealthTO
2. Dr. Thea Weisdorf returning to work July 15
3. Results of investigation won't be shared
4. @UnithHealthTO took no action to keep patients or learners safe from her.

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What about the "Dr. Weisdorf will be communicating directly with the department prior to her return" part?

Well here is a copy of her "apology."

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Summary:
1. "People who identify as Palestinian"
This is a disgusting erasure of the very REAL existence of Palestinian people.
Weisdorf's statement is Anti-Palestinian racism.

How @Israel and those who support it erase Palestinians:


@UnityHealthTO
7/newlinesmag.com/argument/the-e…

2. "Regardless of the context of this encounter"
In what context is refusal of medical care acceptable?
Hint- NONE!

R u claiming u were provoked to say these things?

The full video makes it clear this isn't the case- Weisdorf part starts at 4:06

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https://x.com/SMohyeddin/status/1797488339261722916

3. @UnityHealthTO and Weisdorf: Did you forget the other video, where Weisdorf says to those wearing Pride flags:
"yeah you guys wouldn't live very long."
@UofTFamilyMed


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https://x.com/SMohyeddin/status/1802439937175986612

This is pink-washing, anti-Palestinian racism @UnityHealthTO

"Like many queer young people today, I have watched with paralyzing anger as...our existence commodified as justification for Israel's imperial violence."



10/commondreams.org/opinion/pinkwa…

Hard to imagine @UofT or @UnityHealthTO could have allowed such a distressing and racist "apology."

How could Weisdorf ever be trusted as a teacher/colleague/physician for Palestinians?

How could she, when she's not even capable of acknowledging their existence?
#Palestine
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@UnityHealthTO + @IrfanDhalla,will Weisdorf continue2hold leadership positions over Palestinian colleagues?

Will Weisdorf still decide if Palestinian faculty receive awards?

WhatACTIONdoes @UnityHealthTO intend?

Does this end with empty statements+allowing her racism?
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