An Open Letter to Rishi Sunak, from Jewish doctors and scientists, slammed Rushi Sunak’s action of suspending Andrew Bridgen, MP from the Conservative party on grounds of anti-semitism.
In short, they state that:
“you [Rishi Sunak] and others have seized upon the opportunity to raise the issue of antisemitism in order to limit the free speech of those who raise legitimate concerns about the efficacy and safety of these Covid vaccines…”
The full text of the letter:
Dear Prime Minister Sunak,
We, a group of Jewish medical scientists, physicians and researchers from several countries including Israel and the UK, would like to express our dismay at the decision to suspend Member of Parliament Mr. Andrew Bridgen as a Conservative MP due in part to what you claim was an “antisemitic” tweet that he made in relation to the covid-19 vaccine roll-out.
In the UK alone, since the roll-out of the BioNTech-Pfizer mRNA vaccine, there have been almost half a million Yellow Card reports of adverse events from the public. This is more than all the yellow card reports for all medications for the past 40 years combined. This adds to the growing incidence of reports of death and other side effects that are beyond mild, which have been reported in many countries across the world. The data for other covid-19 vaccines is equally concerning.
Mr. Bridgen tweeted that “one consultant cardiologist said to me this [the vaccine roll-out] is the biggest crime against humanity since the holocaust.”
Aside from the fact that Mr Bridgen was clearly reporting the words of someone else, the word “since” does not in any case imply equivalence to the events of the Holocaust; for that and other reasons the tweet is not antisemitic.
It seems that you and others have seized upon the opportunity to raise the issue of antisemitism in order to limit the free speech of those who raise legitimate concerns about the efficacy and safety of these Covid vaccines and, needless to say, their mandating or coercion, which breached many well- established ethical norms.
Weaponisation of the important issue of antisemitism for these purposes is particularly objectionable and disrespectful towards its victims.
Limiting free speech, along with “othering” and scapegoating people who hold different perspectives, is indeed part of the text-book behaviour of all the totalitarian governments, which have been responsible for the biggest crimes against humanity throughout history.
We respectfully request that you withdraw the accusations of antisemitism levelled at Mr Bridgen.
Sincerely,
Jewish doctors and scientists (25 leading scientists, doctors and researchers from Israel, the UK, Canada and the USA)
Further information about signatories is in the copy of the letter below —
