Ferrukh Faruqui, MD

"It’s not just Gaza. From the West Bank to Syria and Lebanon, Israel’s onslaught continues. Broken ceasefires, bombing, ground incursions and mounting deaths: Israeli imperialism is now expanding across the region" theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Palestinians in Gaza saved 3 patients from amputation or permanent disability by developing the first external fixator using local materials, 3D printing, recycled plastics & solar power despite the genocide & the siege. Heroes. glia.org/blogs/press-re…

I'm 64. I'm a British Jew All my life, I wrestled with this question: How could millions of ordinary people have participated in or enabled the Holocaust? NOW, when I see the behaviour of the British politico-media elites in relation to the Gaza GENOCIDE, I think I understand

This Doctor should have been safe by now, under protected status, and reveered by international leaders as an icon of Ethics. Instead he is still a hostage of Israel, which has abducted him without ever charging him.

@DaisyB_77 @ChrisLynnHedges @RhondaGarad A whole lot of self-reflection is past due.

@ChrisLynnHedges @RhondaGarad Excellent letter. The self regard of mainstream journalists is becoming fragile but because of this self regard they reject all criticism as unmerited. They are truly in a bind of their own making.

"Well-known journalist Chris Hedges, whose talk scheduled to be delivered at the National Press Club was suddenly cancelled, was confronted by the ABC’s Late Night Live host David Marr in an unexpectedly ferocious interview. One reader took exception to this." johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10/o…

@ChrisLynnHedges Excellent letter and because of this very interview, David Marr has lost a bunch of listeners and Chris Hedges has gained a bunch of new followers. I'm one of the bunch.

@ChrisLynnHedges Thank you.

Thanks to ⁦@AlexNeve24⁩, former Secretary General of ⁦@AmnestyNow⁩ for a fantastic conversation ⁦@Writersfest⁩ about his ⁦@cbcideas⁩ 2025 ⁦@MasseyCollege⁩ lecture “Universal: Renewing #HumanRights in a Fractured World.”

@WDICanada "Even with regulation, the risk of surrogacy seems too great. We need to hit pause, to listen to what the evidence is saying. Otherwise, we’re failing the very women who sacrifice their own health to gift strangers the joy of parenthood." We appreciate this article from @FerrukhF

No duh, Sherlock.........

Between them the authors have 3 PhD's and not one of them could bother to research the law they are referring to. In Canada there is no requirement to exhaust all treatment options before MAiD.

Barely a mention in Western media.

The world's famous "Canadian ethical surrogacy industry" : "Sometimes, she said, Canadian fertility clinics can be more flexible with accepting surrogates who “maybe are less than ideal.”... According to Velez study : surrogate mothers had a rate of obesity of 36.2 % , (compared to 17.6% in the population of women who gave birth a the same period). Obesity is a physical condition that adds risks of maternal severe mortality. @FerrukhF 's article provides an accurate picture of this alarming situation.

#Surrogacy’s health risks raise ethical issues over whether the practice is exploitative and should be banned. By @FerrukhF (FJHI '25) #internationalstudents for @undarkmag undark.org/2025/10/20/opi…

Putting a Pause on the Practice of Surrogacy undark.org/2025/10/20/opi… via @undarkmag

A reminder that using aid to punish civilians for things Hamas has or hasnt done is collective punishment, a war crime, and why Netanyahu and Gallant were indicted at the ICC.

The media is madly focused on Israeli corpses. But today Israel returned 52 corpses of Palestinians taken prisoner since 7 October 2023 who had died in Israeli custody, many tortured to death. Zero media attention.