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Thursday, May 12, 2011
Psychiatrists Boycott Honolulu Meeting Over Desmond Tutu Invitation
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The invitation of Archbishop Desmond Tutu to the
<http://www.psych.org/annualmeeting> annual meeting in Hawaii this May has a
number of professionals swearing off attending, and even resigning from the
association. Tutu has been invited to keynote and deliver the Convocation
lecture. From what we have heard, the person who extended the invitation was
not aware of Tutus troubled history concerning Israel and the accusations
of anti-Semitism that have dogged him. Now that they know, theyre not all
that interested in doing anything about it.
At least one member has already
<http://www.searchmedica.com/resource.html?rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.psychiatric
times.com%2Fblog%2Fcouchincrisis%2Fcontent%2Farticle%2F10168%2F1790476&srid=
1&c=ps&q=desmond+tutu&p=Convera&fr=true&ss=psychTimesLink&ds=0> resigned
from the APA over the matter:
To the APA Leadership and Membership Committee:
This letter constitutes my formal resignation from the American Psychiatric
Association. Although my feeling that the APA does not have its members
interests at heart has been growing for many years, the precipitant for this
action is, first, the selection of Archbishop Desmond Tutu as recipient of
one of APAs highest honors, the role of convocation speaker and second (and
more important), the complete indifference and non-responsiveness of the
leadership when his despicable record of anti-Semitism and anti-Israel
communications was explicitly pointed out by actual cites and quotations.
The leaderships refusal not only to dis-invite him but even to respond to
members concerns was, for me, the final straw.
I will, of course, also be boycotting the Hawaii meeting and urging all I
communicate with to do the same.
Thomas G. Gutheil, MD
Distinguished Life Fellow (resigned)
That sounds rather familiar. Organization invites controversial speaker (and
gratuitous
what does Tutu have to do with Psychiatry?). Organization
receives complaints. Organization ignores complaints. Organization loses
members.
There is a lengthy article on the controversy in Psychiatric Times,
<http://www.psychiatrictimes.com/news/content/article/10168/1788049>
Boycotts and Protests To Meet APA Keynote Speaker, Desmond Tutu, but it
requires registration. This article in The Jewish Chronicle should be more
accessible:
<http://www.thejewishchronicle.net/view/full_story/11343662/article-Pittsbur
gh-psychiatrist-opposed-to-Desmond-Tutu-speech-at-national-meeting-?instance
=lead_story_left_column> Pittsburgh psychiatrist opposed to Desmond Tutu
speech at national meeting:
Tutus anti-Israel remarks are well known in Jewish circles. Not only has
he referred to Israel as an apartheid state, last year he urged the Cape
Town Opera to cancel a tour of Israel, which it refused to do, and called
for an academic, artistic, social and political boycott of Israel including
the severing of research cooperation on water purification between the
University of Johannesburg and Ben Gurion University in Israel. APA is on
record with a position statement opposing all academic boycotts.
Among his many other controversial remarks, Tutu has said the Palestinians
are paying penance for the Holocaust
In an email exchange with me, one of those backing the boycott of the event,
Jerry Rogoff, explained some of the background:
About 30 Amer. Psychiatric Assn. members paid for an ad in Psychiatric
Times in Feb. announcing that none of us would attend the APA annual mtg. in
Hawaii in May because Tutu was chosen by the APA pres, Carol Bernstein (yes
Bernstein) to be the Speaker at the Convocation of Fellows, the highest
honor APA can bestow at the ann. mtg. We listed in detail, including quotes
from Tutus speeches and comments to the media, why this was an
inappropriate and divisive choice. Earlier we had entered an Action Paper
(like a Bill in Congress) at the APA Assembly mtg in Nov. to have the
invitation rescinded. In a close vote at the very end of the mtg. it was
defeated in a voice vote, but after an insufficient time for debate and with
no time to have a standing vote taken. Carol B. and the rest of the
leadership have completely stonewalled us. A fewtoo fewof us who are going
to attend the ann. mtg want to plan some sort of protest, but they so far
have been able to muster only 5 or 6 members willing to do so. In the
meantime, a number of other members have joined us after seeing the ad and
the article. And a few, including one nationally renowned forensic
practitioner and professor, have quit the APA over this issue.
Tutu had spoken earlier at a mtg of the Amer College of Psychiatry, a
gathering of mostly academic psychiatrists, to accolades. We are pretty
certain that very few, if any, of them knew about his anti-Israel and at
times anti-Semitic statements. In all likelihood Bernstein didnt either,
when she sat next to him at the Amer. College mtg and invited him then. He
spoke only about the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in S. Africa at
that mtg. with no mention of Israel. We are told that it will be the same at
our mtg. He is being paid $39K for this talk, which is but one part of a
swing he is making through the western U.S. That is where things stand
$39K. For one talk. Not bad work if you can get it. The paid advertisement
which Rogoff refers to is here:
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/51501282/Feb11-Tutu-Ad-Final>
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/51501282/Feb11-Tutu-Ad-Final> Here is the text
for easier reading. It explains their concerns rather concisely:
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/51501282/Feb11-Tutu-Ad-Final> Exercising her
prerogative as president, Dr. Carol Bernstein has invited Bishop Desmond
Tutu of South Africa to deliver the principal address at the Convocation of
Fellows during the Annual Meeting of the APA in Hawaii in May 2011. This
selection is one of the highest honors the APA has to bestow. We shall not
be going.
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/51501282/Feb11-Tutu-Ad-Final> Mr. Tutu is well
known for having been awarded a Nobel Prize for his reconciliation work in
South Africa after the end of the apartheid regime. What is not well known
is his persistent vituperative stance regarding the State of Israel and
those who support it. He has repeatedly called Zionism racism and Israel an
apartheid state. He, who knows what apartheid really is, has chosen to
ignore Israels million and a half Arab citizens with full rights, the
thousands upon thousands of black Ethiopian Jews rescued and resettled in
Israel, and the granting of a safe harbor and citizenship to Vietnamese boat
people and Christian refugees from Darfur.
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/51501282/Feb11-Tutu-Ad-Final> His latest attack
upon Israel, in 2010, was to urge the Cape Town Opera to cancel its visit to
Israel (it did not) and to call for an academic, artistic, social, and
political boycott of Israel including the severing of research cooperation
on water purification between the University of Johannesburg and Ben Gurion
University in Israel. APA is on record with a Position Statement opposing
all academic boycotts. That alone is reason not to have invited him.
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/51501282/Feb11-Tutu-Ad-Final> In a speech in
Boston, Mr. Tutu directly attacked the Jewish supporters of Israel as being
in effect traitors to America, controlling U.S. foreign policy for the
benefit of Israel and to the detriment of America. In that speech he
compared American Jewish supporters of Israel to Hitler, Mussolini, Idi
Amin, Milosevich, Stalin, and Pinochet. This kind of scurrilous attack has
iniquitous roots in history and the name for it is Anti-Semitism.
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/51501282/Feb11-Tutu-Ad-Final> We doubt that the
APA would choose for a singular public honor a person who is outspokenly
racist or anti-gay despite having accumulated honors elsewhere. That would
be wrong as well as offensive to a sizable minority of our membership and
therefore unacceptable to a majority of their colleagues. Tutus pending APA
honor is offensive to us and to many others who support the existence of the
State of Israel as a homeland for the Jewish people and as the only country
in the Middle East respecting democracy, a free press, minority rights, and
religious freedom. We believe that it also should be unacceptable to a
majority of our colleagues.
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/51501282/Feb11-Tutu-Ad-Final> We have petitioned
Dr. Bernstein, the Board of Trustees, and the Assembly to rescind the
invitation to Mr. Tutu, to no avail.
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/51501282/Feb11-Tutu-Ad-Final> For these reasons,
the undersigned are outraged at this appointment and feel betrayed by their
valued organization and its use of our dues to honor this man, by whom we
feel personally attacked and defamed. We want no part of an Annual Meeting
that features such a speaker, and at least some of us are seriously
considering whether we want to continue to belong to the organization that
is honoring this man. Others, who agree with the undersigned but plan to
attend the Annual Meeting, are considering various kinds of protests during
the meeting.
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/51501282/Feb11-Tutu-Ad-Final> If you feel as we
do, we urge you to let Dr. Bernstein know, at [email protected]. If you
would like to support the cost of this ad or join the ad hoc group below,
contact any one of us. We can be reached through the APA at central office:
1-888-357-7924, or the online Membership Directory at www.Psych.org. If you
will be attending the Annual Meeting and want to join a protest there, email
Dan Shrager, M.D., at [email protected].
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/51501282/Feb11-Tutu-Ad-Final> Ignoring Tutus
troubling blindness with regard to Israel and Judaism would only further
normalize it. Good for those willing to say No.
<http://www.scribd.com/doc/51501282/Feb11-Tutu-Ad-Final> Further resources
(Most are well worth reading):
§
<http://www.solomonia.com/blog/fastsearch?blogs=1%2C2%2C7&query=%22desmond+t
utu%22> Search in old Solomonia archives.
§
<http://www.hudson-ny.org/1742/bishop-tutu-is-no-saint-when-it-comes-to-jews
> Alan M. Dershowitz: Bishop Tutu Is No Saint When it Comes To Jews
§ <http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=193904>
Warren Goldstein: An open letter to Tutu
§
<http://www.robinshepherdonline.com/time-to-call-this-man-on-his-bigotry-des
mond-tutu-says-israels-claim-to-be-a-civilised-democracy-is-fallacious/>
Robin Shepherd: Time to call this man on his bigotry: Desmond Tutu says
Israels claim to be a civilised democracy is fallacious
§
<http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2007/11/simon-deng-disappearance-of-b
ishop-tutu/> Simon Deng [a former slave]: Disappearance of Bishop Tutu
§
<http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2007/10/report-on-sabeel-from-inside-
the-confere/> Report on Sabeel from Inside the Conference Friday Night
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