Actionable Recommendations and Examples of Actions Taken.
Actionable Recommendations and Examples of Actions Taken.
| Citations | Actionable Recommendation and Action Taken |
|---|---|
| Wald and Roth (2024)2
Getzoff Testa et al. (2024)75 |
4Es:2 (1) Education: (a) promoting better understanding of Judaism, the Jewish people, Jewish identity, and Jewish experience in clinical practice, research, and training |
| Czech et al. (2023)76
Chelouche et al. (2023)77 Wald and Roth (2024)2 Reis and Wald (2024)78 Chelouche (2025)79 Adler et al. (2025)80 Wald and Ehrenfeld (2025)81 Adler and Grant-Kels (2024)71 Cox and Marlowe (2024)63 |
4Es:2 (1) Education: (b) required teaching of history of medicine’s complicity in the Holocaust and contemporary relevance for all humanity “to understand the dangerous potential of antisemitism”90 and for shaping moral Professional Identity Formation; (c) proactive education on anti-Zionist libel, hate, and stigma |
| Wald and Roth (2024)2 | 4Es: (2) Engagement, (3) Empathy, and (4) Enforcement of policies including applying anti-discrimination standards consistently |
| Nazarian (2023)82
Beck et al. (2025)83 Getzoff Testa et al. (2024)75 Ferreira et al. (2024)84 Ancis and Weisskirch (2025)85 Walker et al. (2025)86 |
(5) Revamping Diversity, Inclusion, and Anti-Bias Training Initiatives to include Judaism, Jewish Identity, and Antisemitism. Resisting “DEI fueled politicization”82
Social Work: Use NASW Code of Ethics to address antisemitism Psychology: “Roadmap”—inclusion of antisemitism in APA Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion |
| Katz (2024)26
Nystrom (2025)87 Jewish Social Work Consortium report included in Kogan (2025)88 Strous (2025)89 |
(6) Professional and Legal Associations:
implement educational and policy enforcement initiatives, promote culturally safe care for Jewish patients; push back against weaponization of healthcare against Israel |
| Joint Statement of the ADL, AEN, and Psychologists Against Antisemitism included in ADL (2025)54
National Association of Social Workers (2026)90 |
(7) Association and Inter-Association Action:
July 2025: Joint statement (ADL, AEN, Psychologists Against Antisemitism): against an American Psychologist article showing “clear animus” to Jewish people and Israel. A previous joint statement (ADL/AEN) in May 2025 urged the APA to address rising tide of antisemitism including anti-Israel bias January 2026: The NASW opposing the International Federation of Social Workers’ motion (ultimately defeated) that issued a formal “censure” against the Israeli Union of Social Workers |
| US House Committee on Energy and Commerce (2024)35
Trovato (2025)31 Konecky (2025)91 Whyte (2025)7 Song (2025)39 Heller (2025)92 Dupre (2025)93 Department of Health and Social Care, The Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer KCB KC MP and The Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP (2025)94 Dyer and Iacobucci (2025)43 Bilger (2026)95 Heller (2025)42 |
(8) Governmental Interventions:
February 2025: US Department HHS civil rights investigation over reported antisemitism at Harvard Medical School, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine August 2025: US Congress Committee on E&W investigation of antisemitism at UCLA, UCSF, and University of Illinois medical schools October 2025: UK government urgent action to tackle antisemitism within education and National Health Service December 2025: US House Committee on E&W investigates antisemitism within the APA February 2026: US Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and US HHS investigates Lincoln Memorial University–DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine regarding discrimination against Jewish students |
| Hart and Garlick (2025)96
Frenk (2025)97 Harvard University (2025)98 Jewish Federations of North America (2024)99 |
(9) On Campus Action
Formation of Jewish ERGs, e.g. Mass General-Brigham, Columbia, Sick Kids Toronto Congressional advocacy to prevent denying Jewish employees at medical institutions the opportunity to form ERGs UCLA Initiative to Combat Antisemitism Harvard University Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Bias |
| Adler and Grant-Kels (2024)100
Edelson (2024)101 Reis and Wald (2024)78 Roth et al. (2024)102 Roth and Wald (2025)103 Walker et al. (2025)86 Schwartz et al. (2026)19 Strous (2025)89 |
(10) Publications and correspondence to rebut non-evidence-based allegations and omissions grounded in anti-Israel bias in medical/scientific journals and medical society and medical union statements that can fuel antisemitic sentiment |
| Change.org (2023)73
Deutch (2025)104 Deutch (2025)105 Heller (2025)106 Heller (2025)107 Wald et al. (2025)108 Hauser (2025)109 Agronin (2026)74 |
(11) Advocacy Letters, Testimony, and Related Initiatives
Letter against the Committee of Interns and Residents (US doctors’ union) about perpetuating antisemitic bias Letter against American Academy of Pediatrics leadership advocating for a doctor identified as a Hamas terrorist organization member “Open Letter on Antizionism and the Weaponization of Medicine: A Call from Jewish and Allied Health Professionals” from >1,000 North American Jewish health professionals providing evidence of “near-constant abuse” and a “far longer erosion of professional norms”; identified and emphasized the “anti-Zionist problem in medicine”; motion brought by the Jewish Medical Association of the UK president after the British Medical Association passed three anti-Israel resolutions at its annual conference Letter asking Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne to cancel a program on “Children and War” with panelists that had engaged in “… hateful, partisan campaigns against Israel and its supporters” Letter calling for (a) health professionals and their professional associations’ condemnation of flagrant international law violations of hostage taking and torture and murder of prisoners by Hamas (October 7, 2023 invasion and murderous rampage) and condemning any attempts to justify or rationalize these acts; (b) learning from history of medicine’s complicity in Nazism and the Holocaust and its contemporary relevance including fighting antisemitism and all hate; and (c) medical journals to uphold publication standards on this conflict with documentable facts, not unfounded accusations or deliberate omissions MIT chapter of Kalaniyot founded in the aftermath of October 7, 2023 with aims of advancing academic excellence by deepening ties with Israeli researchers and building a supportive and inclusive campus community Written testimony before the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions Committee on Education and Workforce United States House of Representatives Hearing on “Bad medicine: politics, unions, and antisemitism in health care” |
Sources include peer-reviewed articles, commentaries, organizational statements, governmental documents, media reports, and advocacy materials; these source types do not carry equivalent evidentiary weight.