There has been much written recently about BDS (Boycott,
Disinvestment and Sanctions) against Israel following Professor Stephen
Hawkings’ decision to cancel his appearance at the Israeli Presidential
Conference in June. My response is to
provide an update to members of the BDS club of my previous articles here
and here
on the stupidity and futility of boycotting the Jewish State. For my sources to this latest blog, I am
using only medical news articles since January 2013 – i.e. the last four and a
half months. The following is just a
small selection – a more extensive list will be posted on my blogsite in
the next week or so.
Dear BDS member. By
boycotting Israeli treatments and research you will cause the deaths of
millions of children from Hepatitis
B because they couldn’t have SciGen’s Sci-B-Vac only third-generation
Hep B virus vaccine. You would have to
destroy the research by Hadassah Medical Organization that located the gene
that causes recurrent life-threatening infections and bone
marrow failure in children. The
babies born deformed
and blind from ectodermal dysplasia cannot touch the gene therapy that
Israel’s Technion has developed.
Children paralysed by the genetic brain disease Peripheral
Neuropathy will just have to whistle for the medication developed by
doctors at Hadassah Medical Center – except of course that they can’t
whistle.
BDS members obviously have no wish to cure cancer.
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You would boycott Hebrew University Professor Alexander
Levitzki’s award-winning cancer
therapies.
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You would dispatch Technion’s diagnosis breath test
for lung
cancer and stomach
cancer to the garbage, despite the fact an Israeli
Arab invented it.
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So is Biocancell Therapeutics’s new treatment for bladder
cancer.
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Melanoma (skin cancer) sufferers can forget the successful T-cell treatment
at Sheba Medical Center.
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You must not treat patients with aggressive cancers
if it requires the multi-antibody
combination discovered by Israel’s Weizmann Institute.
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Ban any work on the Hebrew University’s discovery of a mutated protein
breast cancer signal. Then when you developed breast
cancer your surgeons would just have to cut away healthy flesh with the
tumor, as they would not be allowed to use the MarginProbe breast cancer test
from Israel’s Dune Medical.
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Children
will contract kidney cancer because you prohibited Sheba Medical
Center’s treatment of the cancer stem cells that fuel the growth of Wilms’
tumors.
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Finally your worst nightmare is to be injected with Weizmann
Institute’s microscopic
device that searches the body for genetic
malfunctions in the cells.
BDS members have no heart, no brain and no spine, otherwise
why would they want to boycott Israeli cardiology, neurology and spinal
treatments?
Heartless BDS members would need to avoid
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Lev-El Diagnostics’ heart monitor algorithm that identifies heart
disease in one hour instead of two days.
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Or Dr. Shai Efrati, of Tel Aviv University, whose Oxygen
enrichment therapy improves stroke
patients even 3 years after their last attack.
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And they would never use one of InspireMD’s new self-expanding
stroke-preventing
stents.
Brainless BDS activists can ignore Israel’s latest
neurological discoveries and innovations such as:
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How regulating the protein Calphotin can prevent
Alzheimer’s disease
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Why the sugar substitute mannitol protects
the brain against Parkinson’s
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The pre-natal diagnostic tool for prevention of genetic
mental retardation
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Alcobra’s ADHD
medication, which is safer than Ritalin and has few side effects.
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And certainly Weizmann’s research into how
the brain repairs itself.
Spineless BDS bigots will have to forgo
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Argo Medical’s ReWalk
exoskeleton for paraplegics, for which Version
2 was shown to US President Obama; IDF paraplegic Radi Kaiuf used it to
complete the Tel
Aviv 10km race in less than 4 hours.
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Mazor Robotics’s robotic
spinal surgery which has just been approved for sale in Australia
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Premia Spine’s artificial titanium joint that restores
mobility to sufferers of spinal degeneration
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Bonus Biogroup, which is generating new bones
from a patients’ own fat cells.
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Cartilage
regeneration from a CartiHeal Agili-C implant
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Diagnosis of walking
problems using SensoGo’s gait analysis device
Finally, I can understand that you BDS people have no
feelings for humanity. But surely you
must care for animals? So please don’t
boycott the first vaccine effective against canine monocytic ehrlichiosis
(CME), a sometimes fatal tick-borne
disease in dogs. I realise that
two Hebrew University veterinary scientists developed it, but you can’t let a
poor animal suffer, can you?
Next week, I will post a feature on some of the Palestinian
Arabs, Syrians, Iraqis etc. who have benefited from not boycotting Israel.
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