Canceled panel on affects of war on children's health

*Melbourne’s Royal Children’s hospital (RCH) suddenly cancelled a planned panel discussion on the effects of war on children’s health, just days after its chief executive received a letter alleging the event would pose a risk to Jewish staff and patients.*

I presume that the panel would have mentioned medical effects of war in Gaza as well as other wars, and that the direction accepted the claim that Jews might feel guilt over the attacks of the Israeli army which killed and wounded children.

Should a chance of feeling guilty, perhaps justifiably so, be considered a "risk" in contexts like this? Does the medical community have an obligation to hush up issues which might lead someone to feel guilty?

The events of the war in Gaza do not give anyone a reason to feel guilty simply for being Jewish. Only those who are partly responsible for Israel's bombardment and siege have a reason.

As an Australian judge said, claiming that all Jews are responsible for what Israel does is antisemitism.

If so, the decision represents a moral confusion: the assumption that one must not talk about medicine and war, lest someone feel responsible for the war.

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