by Brian Shilhavy
Editor, Health Impact News
The National Institute of Health (NIH), which is part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services run by Secretary of HHS Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has just published a notice threatening U.S. scientists and medical researchers funded by NIH with losing their funding if they criticize Israel.
Lee Fang covered this on his Substack Page:
Trump Admin Enacts Vast Censorship of American Scientists Over Israel
NIH promised an era of free speech and free expression. New rules attempt to chill speech related to Israel.
Research institutes and universities may engage in boycotts or divestment to pressure any country or government entity in the world. Recent institutional boycotts include measures to protest corporations that do business in North Carolina and China.
That right no longer exists when it comes to protests of Israel.
Researchers and university employees who engage in certain nonviolent protests or political expression over human rights conditions in Israel may risk civil and criminal penalties, according to a new policy unveiled by the National Institutes of Health yesterday. The agency, the largest public funder of biomedical research in the world, touches virtually every corner of the scientific community.
The blanket boycott suppression is a radical expansion of so-called “anti-BDS” rules that restrict Americans from boycotting or simply advocating divestment from Israel-related businesses.
The new NIH policy, which mirrors anti-BDS laws applied to contractors in thirty eight states, now silences hundreds of thousands of researchers. It applies to all “domestic recipients of new, renewal, supplement, or continuation awards” issued starting April 21. (Full article.)
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