Harvard Medical School Cancels Class Session With Gazan Patients, Calling It One-Sided
Elyse C. Goncalves and Akshaya Ravi | 23 January 2025 | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard Medical School canceled a planned Jan. 21 lecture on wartime healthcare and a subsequent panel with patients from Gaza receiving care in Boston in response to objections that students would hear from Gazans impacted by the war and not also Israelis.
Course instructors and students were notified Tuesday morning that the events — scheduled for that evening — would not be held.
Medical School Dean George Q. Daley ’82 wrote in a Wednesday email sent to first-year students and obtained by The Crimson that his office began receiving complaints from students and faculty within days after the session was first publicized last week…