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James Smith

@dr.jamesdsmith

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A&E/ER doctor
Lecturer in humanitarian studies
Words in Al Jazeera Opinion, MEE, Mondoweiss, Tribune
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The Gaza Health Solidarity Declaration has been prepared by leading Palestinian and international health and human rights experts, and calls for concerned efforts to foreground solidarity over charity, and to ensure that ongoing efforts to rebuild the health system in Gaza and throughout Palestine centre the sovereignty, agency and rights of the Palestinian people.

LINK IN BIO. by @dr.jamesdsmith

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🚨🚨🚨 URGENT APPEAL ISSUED BY THE P A L E S T I N I A N PROFESSIONAL UNIONS ASSOCIATION IN THE G A Z A S T R I P TO THE UNITED NATIONS AGENCIES AND HUMANITARIAN ORGANIZATIONS OPERATING IN G A Z A

P a l e s t i n i a n unions demand UN/ international actors STOP ABETTING mass starvation, ethnic cleansing & forced displacement.

IMMEDIATE ACTION:
🚨HALT ETHNIC CLEANSING
🚨PROTECT CIVILIANS
🚨DELIVER AID WITH DIGNITY

▶️ TAG EVERY DECISION-MAKER ⤵️
@unitednations @cij_icj @icjpalestine
@unrwa @ochaopt @worldfoodprogramme @who @unicef @icrc @unhumanrightsopt @statedept @ukun_newyork @europeancommission @amnesty @humanrightswatch @aljazeeraenglish

▶️ FLOOD GOVERNMENTS & ACTIVISTS:
SHARE → DEMAND → AMPLIFY → FORCE SANCTIONS.

By persistently framing and treating I s r a e l ‘s
g e n 0 c i d e in G@z@ as a ‘humanitarian crisis’, international agencies are failing their core mandates. This misdiagnosis abets g e n 0 c i d a l crimes and forces aid workers into complicity with starvation tactics. We demand immediate realignment with international law: Recognize the g e n 0 c i d e , enforce civilian protection and deliver aid with DIGNITY without further politicization. Neutrality in g e n 0 c i d e is complicity. Institutions must choose between upholding their founding principles or irrevocable credibility loss. by @dr.jamesdsmith

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by @dr.jamesdsmith

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Over 23,000 of you have signed our No Palantir in the NHS petition, smashing our 10,000 target 🎉 Let’s keep that momentum going!

On Thursday night, hundreds of patients, health workers and campaigners rallied outside Palantir’s London HQ, despite a small group of counter-protesters.

Our message hasn’t changed: a company linked to Israel’s genocide in Gaza has no place in our NHS. We’ll keep going until the government ends Palantir’s contract.

Huge thanks to our speakers @dr.omar.am, @dr.jamesdsmith, @shireen_asaw, @mihranian_rhiannon and to everyone who stood with us ✊

#nopalantirinournhs by @dr.jamesdsmith

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‼️JOIN US THIS WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 7TH FROM 1PM FOR OUR VIGIL MARKING THREE YEARS OF GENOCIDE AND TO PROTEST INSTITUTIONAL COMPLICITY IN THE GAZA GENOCIDE‼️

📍MARBLE ARCH
📆: WEDNESDAY 7TH OCTOBER
⏰: 1PM-4PM

Three years. Three years and over 78 years of genocide, of forced starvation, of murder, ethnic cleansing, imprisonment, torture and settler colonialism. Three years of watching the world’s silence and our schools, workplaces, government, and universities’ complicity as they continue to invest in and profit from genocide. And three years of steadfastness from our Palestinian brothers and sisters.

As students, academics, workers, people of conscience, we cannot allow this to continue with business as usual during a live streamed genocide. We must do everything we can to stop this genocide. Our unity matters. Every step we take through our campuses, workplaces and streets is a refusal to let genocide be normalized, ignored, or erased from our media.

Every step we take is showing them that their repression will never intimidate us. They can attempt to erase Palestine from our institutions but we will never abide to that. We will continue to rise and our goals will be achieved.

Since the signing of the so called ceasefire, over 1100 Palestinians have been killed. It is estimated that hundreds of thousands of Palestinian men, women and children have been killed at the hands of the zionist settler colonial project. Precious lives have been taken, each life a whole universe for someone else, with goals, ambitions and dreams.

Hundreds of thousands of children have been killed, injured and are unable to go to schools in Gaza, because they have been destroyed. University buildings have been decimated and students in Gaza are unable to attend classes or pay tuition fees.

We stand together because we know that justice and liberation will never come from the institutions complicit in oppression, they will come from us, the students, workers, and the entirety of the masses - from the people who refuse to look away, from people who choose to act over comfort.

We will keep rising. We will honour every single martyr. The people united will never be defeated. 🇵🇸 by @dr.jamesdsmith

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As simple as that. by @dr.jamesdsmith

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There isn’t a more despicable corporation on the planet right now than Palantir. And who have they partnered with? None other than our National Health Service.

If the new Labour government wants to convince us its found a moral compass, they must immediately drop all public contracts with Palantir and sanction their activities. by @dr.jamesdsmith

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1/10/26 🚨NO PALANTIR IN THE NHS | BACK THE BREAK CLAUSE |
ST THOMAS HOSPITAL

Dr James Smith (an emergency physician who has been on several missions to gaza & lecturer in humanitarian policy)- addresses the masses of healthworkers and members of the public who rallied outside St Thomas Hospital today to demand the trust CEOs back the break clause in the Palantir contract which is up for a review in November this year.

This was part of a coordinated global action, and one of over 20 Protest nationwide happening today to demand the UK government drop the Palantir contract.

#NopalantirintheNHS
#Breakthecontract taken in St Thomas' Hospital by @dr.jamesdsmith

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Last Thursday @frontlineclub, speaking about Israel’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people. W. @rosieplasticsurgeon @dan.rugo @bendepear by @dr.jamesdsmith

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Tomorrow. Now sold out 🙏🏼🇵🇸 With @dan.rugo and @rosieplasticsurgeon by @dr.jamesdsmith

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Emergency doctor in London and served in Gaza during the ongoing genocide, Dr. James Smith, shares his testimony and observations on the health situation in Gaza during MIFTAH event on 16 Sep, discussing the right to health in Gaza: Challenges and Prospects for Recovery. by @dr.jamesdsmith

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