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Kaminski did an interview on Pittsburgh Indymedia, an anti-Semitic "anarchist" web site. … In discussing the Erez crossing between Israel and Gaza, Kaminski said, "So you have the whole Erez crossing which used to be full with lots of workers going into Israel and goods for Gaza not operating. Part of this is a security concern… but it is basically "…the Siege" according to Kaminski. So in the mind of the learned doctor, not only do Palestinians have some sort of entitlement to work in Israel, but that entitlement counts for MORE than and trumps the right of Israeli Jews to remain breathing, not to be murdered by suicide bombers!

University of Pittsburgh Medical Center: Dr. Naftali Kaminski Exercises his Lungs against Israel

By Lee Kaplan, www.IsraCampus.org.il
30/8/2010

Dr. Naftali Kaminski has come a long way since he earned his degree in medicine at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He studied and worked at Sheba Hospital (Tal Hashomer) before leaving Israel for America in 2002. In the US he devotes much of his time to bashing Israel.

Today he is Associate Professor of Medicine, Pathology, Human Genetics and Computational Biology, as well as the serving Director of both the Dorothy P. & Richard P. Simmons Center for ILD (Lung Disease) and the Lung, Blood and Vascular Center for Genomic Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. When not fixing lungs, he often speaks publicly about the Middle East and his position is harshly anti-Israel.

Kaminski helped organize an anti-Israel event on March 19, 2003 at the Middle East Forum of the University of Pittsburgh, sponsoring a distorted retelling of anti-Jewish blood libels, this time through the film "Jenin, Jenin." That propaganda film was directed by Israeli Arab Mohammed Bakri, who has admitted publicly that his film is a collection of lies. (Kaminski's Middle East Forum is not the same one as Dr. Daniel Pipes' Middle East Forum in Philadelphia.) The film is one of the most vicious pieces of anti-Israel propaganda around.

The website for Kaminski's group has carried almost every anti-Israel Jewish extremist one could find. It has carried Bash-Israel propaganda written by the anti-Israel Israeli "journalist" Amira Hass, the neo-Nazi Holocaust Denier Israel Shamir, the arch hater of Zionism Uri Avnery, and the head of the anti-Israel "Women in Black" Gila Svirsky. The site also carried calls to Israelis to refuse to do army service. It featured many radical academics calling for the dismantling of the Jewish state or endorsing the Arab irredentist goals.

Kaminski has also signed petitions encouraging refusal to serve in the IDF in Israel's defense. One petition in particular stands out because it calls on Israeli academics to use their positions and classrooms to deter their students from serving in the IDF. Among other things, the statement said: "Without an Israeli declaration of an end to the occupation, accompanied by appropriate action–unilateral, if necessary–the present war is not being fought for our home but for the settlements beyond the green line and for the continued oppression of another people. We hereby express our readiness to do our best to help students who encounter academic, administrative or economic difficulties as a result of their refusal to serve in the territories. We call on the University community at large to support them."

How comfortable for Kaminski to sign such things from the safety of Pittsburgh.

Kaminski did an interview on Pittsburgh Indymedia, an anti-Semitic "anarchist" web site. There Kaminski explained how Israel's medical knowledge could greatly improve the health standards of Gazans. But, he continued, "Israel opened a mobile clinic 2 weeks ago that closed soon because nobody showed up to use it. I could understand why: you've been bombed, you're not going to play the p.r. game." So it is all Israel's fault that Palestinian civilians are so cowed by the terrorists that they fear making use of an Israeli health clinic!

The truth is Palestinians did not go to the clinic because Hamas threatened to murder them as collaborators with Israel. Kaminski prefers to blame the Jews for using their military to protect themselves from the Hamas!

In discussing the Erez crossing between Israel and Gaza, Kaminski said, "So you have the whole Erez crossing which used to be full with lots of workers going into Israel and goods for Gaza not operating. Part of this is a security concern… but it is basically "…the Siege" according to Kaminski. So in the mind of the learned doctor, not only do Palestinians have some sort of entitlement to work in Israel, but that entitlement counts for MORE than and trumps the right of Israeli Jews to remain breathing, not to be murdered by suicide bombers!

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