Imagine being fired for calling out the evils of Hamas and what they did on October 7.
Well, in Canada, that's what happens to you.
A Jewish doctor and obstetrics professor at McMaster University, Jon Barrett, was punished by being removed from the editorial board of an academic journal after criticizing his association for not condemning the October 7 Hamas sexual violence.
The Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) is a national medical society in Canada with over 4,000 members, including obstetricians/gynecologists, family physicians, nurses, midwives, and other reproductive health professionals.
Barrett was also on the editorial board of the Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada (JOGC).
You would think of both groups as champions of women. But that's not the case.
As everybody was traumatized, we waited, in shock, for people to condemn. And I was waiting for the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (SOGC), as soon as the stories of rape and sexual violence came out. I was waiting for the women's organizations, and it became very clear the duplicity of women's organizations across the world.
Barrett emailed SOGC leaders, asking why they hadn't spoken out against the horrors of October 7 - specifically against the rapes and sexual violence.
Several months later, in March, after SOGC still didn't make a statement about the Hamas violence, he wrote an op-ed on International Women's Day in the National Post criticizing their silence.
This silence has shaken me to the core because it reveals something much more sinister than just the age-old fear of a Jew experiencing antisemitism.
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Weeks after Oct. 7 passed, I wrote to the leadership asking why they had been silent and was met with excuses. Eventually, in December, the SOGC released a statement, but this made no mention of Hamas or even the date of Oct. 7,. It simply stated, ‘In the light of recent and ongoing global events' and mentioned the Red Line Initiative. What recent events? Committed by who against whom? I asked, but received no response.
In this letter, Barrett publicly announced his resignation from SOGC after seeing firsthand the organization's political bias.
SOGC President Amanda Black praised reporting on Russian soldiers' assaults in Ukraine in a December 2023 letter, but continued to stay silent on Hamas's attacks on Israeli women.
The penny dropped, my denial evaporated and it all changed. It was then that I resigned. I fear that, once again, just like in my grandmother's generation, the Jew is being dehumanized to the point where the most heinous of acts are accepted by society. If you cannot name the perpetrators and victims, you are complicit.
After the op-ed was published, Barrett received a call from Togas Tulandi, the then-editor-in-chief of the JOGC.
Tulandi told him that the op-ed pissed off SOGC leaders, and after Barrett resigned from SOGC, they also wanted him removed as an associate editor of the journal.
But when Barrett pushed back and pointed out the bias of his removal from the journal, Tulandi simply apologized for bringing it up, wanted to forget about it, and pivoted.
Later, Tulandi told the JOGC editorial board that Barrett wouldn't be dismissed after all, and attempted to make it an issue of whether Barrett could stay in his role without being an SOGC member.
Riiiight, it had nothing to do with his op-ed publicly criticizing the entire organization ...
Although Barrett now regrets resigning from SOGC, many other members have expressed sympathy and also considered leaving the journal. He told the National Post that leaving was probably not the right thing to do.
I don't think it was the right thing to do, but it was that frustration that I didn't feel I had a voice anyway. Perhaps I could have used the voice of reason, internally, to change.
SOGC President Amanda Black is now claiming Barrett let his membership expire, so his position on the editorial board was not renewed.
Too bad everyone can see right through that.
Finally, this month (only over seven months since October 7!), Black referred to the December 2023 letter "specifically condemning the use of women as weapons of war — a tragic and enduring reality for women globally."
This was a general statement applicable to all countries where such atrocities were, and continue, to be committed. This is also a position that the SOGC has always had and will continue to maintain.
Still, seven months later, this coward can't even call out the terrorists by name.
Barrett argued that even though his three-year term was ending, most editors continued for additional terms, and he couldn't recall any other JOGC editor getting a similar dismissal note.
No other editor whose term is coming up in October has been informed that their term is up. It was just a backtrack when they realized the ‘reason' they gave was false.
Still, he tried to fix things with the SOGC afterward and was turned down.
Tulandi also resigned.
I think all of us, including some (of) you on this email who are on the board, see this for what it is - a transparent and petulant attempt by some of the leadership of the SOGC to place pressure on Togus, an editor of an international journal, to do something he did not want to do and then scramble trying to find a reason.
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By forcing you to inform only me alone amongst all of you, that my term will end, against my wishes, these leaders have now, unfortunately, crossed the line from the erasure of the victims of sexual violence that occurred on Oct 7th into scientific censure.
What a tragedy, colleagues. Not because it attempts to censure me, but because this undermines the very integrity of this journal that we have tried so hard to grow.
It's a strange time we live in.
It's 2024, and we seem so advanced and compassionate to those suffering in our own backyards and all across the globe. But even though it's 2024, here is a Jewish man being silenced for condemning one of the most deadly attacks on Jews since the Holocaust.
In Canada, at least to the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, Ukrainian women's lives sure do matter, but Israeli women are just brushed under the rug.
What a shame and disgrace.
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