Medecins Sans Frontieres, that is, Doctors Without Borders, insists that it didn’t know it was hiring Hamas jihadis. So in other words, it is admitting that it was too stupid to spot an Islamic jihadi. Its own rhetoric is so viciously one-sided and anti-Israel that it never saw the jihadis it hired as anything but ideologically simpatico.
“MSF rejects Israeli claims it willingly employed staff with terrorist ties in Gaza,” Arab News, September 14, 2026:
DUBAI: Medecins Sans Frontieres has rejected claims by Israeli authorities that it employed individuals with links to Hamas in Gaza, saying the allegations were only brought to the organization after the accused were killed.
“Medecins Sans Frontieres unequivocally refutes the allegations made by the Israeli authorities that we knowingly hired people with ‘ties to terrorism,’” MSF told Arab News in a statement. “MSF would never knowingly employ anyone involved in military activities, which contradicts our core values and ethics. The MSF staff members whom Israel has alleged to have ‘ties to terrorism’ were only reported as such to our organization after they had been killed.”
On Friday, British newspaper The Telegraph revealed that Israeli lobby group UK Lawyers for Israel had written to British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, urging that the humanitarian organization be banned for its links to terrorism.
A report, produced by UKLFI, alleged links between MSF employees and militant groups, including Fadi Jihad Mohammed Al-Wadiya, an accused Palestinian Islamic Jihad member who was killed in Gaza City last year. Al-Wadiya, a physiotherapist employed by MSF from 2018 to 2022 and again from Oct. 7, 2023, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on June 25, 2024. MSF condemned the strike at the time….
ploome says
regarding:
… UK Lawyers for Israel had written to British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood
too funny…I am certain the bint Shabana will be right on top of this and take immediate action.
Whatever that may entail.
?perhaps a very strongly worded letter
Wellington says
Should be called “Doctors Without Borders But With Bias.”
ploome says
excellent comment
Westman says
Yes, we remember the bias:
“Doctors Without Borders refused to negotiate for the release of Kayla Mueller, an American aid worker who was kidnapped and enslaved by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. They stated that they had no obligation to assist her as she was not an employee of their organization.”
She was left to be Baghdadi’s sex slave and die. That’s the real Doctors Without Borders.
ploome says
Mueller and her Syrian boyfriend were in Baghdad, living together
He was apparently working with them, and she was abducted when she denied they were married.
The story is somewhat confusing… Baghdad was not a place she should have been. It’s not like she had any skills to help the sick and wounded or anyone else.
somehistory says
The attorneys shouldn’t expect the home secretary to do anything useful. She reads, believes and relies on the same book of demon filth as the members of hamas.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Sensible countries – like Israel, US – should put borders around where MSF is allowed to operate
OLD GUY says
I always question donating money to these organizations who’s main purpose is to take care of and help people in foreign countries many of whom are enemies or promote hate America. American aid should be aimed at taking care of our own citizens in need. There are millions of Americans who need medical procedures to save their lives or help them live a normal life. My guess is that there is more fraud in foreign aid than there ever is or was in our local programs.
Nicholas Stix says
“Medecins Sans Frontieres unequivocally refutes the allegations made by the Israeli authorities that we knowingly hired people with ‘ties to terrorism,’ MSF told Arab News in a statement. ‘MSF would never knowingly employ anyone involved in military activities, which contradicts our core values and ethics. The MSF staff members whom Israel has alleged to have ‘ties to terrorism’ were only reported as such to our organization after they had been killed.”
So, where’s the “refutation”? DWB/MSF never refuted the charge. Saying you “unequivocally refute the allegations” is not a refutation, it is a lie. To refute charges requires proving that the charges are false.
Racial socialists do this all time. They assert a charge they have never disproven has been “refuted” or “debunked,” when nothing of the sort has been done. That lie for me suffices as an unwitting confession that the charge is true.
“The MSF staff members whom Israel has alleged to have ‘ties to terrorism’ were only reported as such to our organization after they had been killed.”
The foregoing statement is nothing but an irrelevant smokescreen, which I take as a second unwitting confession that the charge is true.
My conclusion: doctors without borders is evil, not stupid.