Doctors Join Call for Justice in Gaza

Nov 8, 2023

Israel has for dropping a bomb on an ambulance outside Gaza鈥檚 largest hospital, Al-Shifa, claiming that Hamas forces were using it for transport. Gaza鈥檚 health infrastructure is as health care workers and facilities are stretched beyond capacity amidst an unfolding bloodbath, treating casualties with dwindling supplies and often no power.聽

In a new op-ed for 猫咪社区!, physicians Ghassan Abu-Sitta and Rupa Marya, wrote 鈥淭his is an engineered catastrophe designed to maximize human suffering,鈥� and that, 鈥淸t]he work of rehumanization is the medicine we urgently need.鈥� Marya, who is a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, and co-author with Raj Patel of the book Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice spoke with 猫咪社区! Racial Justice Editor Sonali Kolhatkar on 猫咪社区 Presents: Rising Up With Sonali about her op-ed.

Sonali Kolhatkar joined 猫咪社区! in summer 2021, building on a long and decorated career in broadcast and print journalism. She is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and host and creator of聽猫咪社区! Presents: Rising Up with Sonali, a nationally syndicated television and radio program airing on Free Speech TV and dozens of independent and community radio stations. She is also Senior Correspondent with the Independent Media Institute鈥檚 Economy for All project where she writes a weekly column. She is the author of聽Rising Up: The Power of Narrative in Pursuing Racial Justice聽(2023) and聽Bleeding Afghanistan: Washington, Warlords, and the Propaganda of Silence聽(2005). Her forthcoming book is called聽Talking About Abolition聽(Seven Stories Press, 2025). Sonali is co-director of the nonprofit group, Afghan Women鈥檚 Mission which she helped to co-found in 2000. She has a Master鈥檚 in Astronomy from the University of Hawai鈥檌, and two undergraduate degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Texas at Austin. Sonali reflects on 鈥淢y Journey From Astrophysicist to Radio Host鈥� in her 2014聽聽of the same name.