I believe in freedom of thought and freedom of speech. I therefore believe people have every right to speak out about their demands to boycott, divest and sanction when it comes to Israel.
But I also believe it is worth knowing what emanates from Israel that would be boyotted, divested (i.e. unfunded) and subject to those sanctions.
Here is another in the series of advances which emanate from Israel, for BDS crowd to clamp down on – this one supplied from a list compiled at israel21c.org (the entire list is available by clicking here):
In early November 2017, an Israeli TV news crew was on hand at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center’s neonatal intensive care unit as the parents of a premature baby stood next to the Embrace Neonatal MRI system in which the baby’s brain was being imaged.
At their side were nurses, doctors and Uri Rapoport, the inventor of Embrace, the world’s first MRI machine especially for the NICU.
“It was the first time ever that parents and staff could stand around an MRI machine with no restrictions. I will never forget the hug the mother gave me,” says Rapoport, the founder, president and CEO of Israel’s Aspect Imaging.
MRI scans of newborn preterm babies can identify any brain injury that might affect their development and tip off parents to the need for early intervention. However, it’s tricky to transport fragile preemies to the MRI room and to get an accurate scan.
Embrace was designed to solve these problems. Approved by the FDA for the United States in July 2017 and by the CE for Europe in October, the system produces diagnostic clinical-quality images of neonates without moving them from the NICU.
To the people committed to BDS: do you know of, maybe care deeply about, anyone who has a prematurely born child? Do you want to insure that child is in the best possible condition, and to be aware if there are problems as soon as possible so remedial steps can be taken?
If so, please be sure to avoid this device at all costs and tell your friends and family to do the same. See, it is from (gasp!!!) Israel. So the fact that it might be a huge benefit to that child, as well as all other children in the same situation, is irrelevant. Immaterial. It doesn’t count and it doesn’t matter.
Hey, a boycott is a boycott.
To be continued…
The people in the bds movement are in the same group that would want to kill this baby. I don’t think this will compel them to change their mind.