(JNS) A hospital in Belgium defended on Tuesday a physician who had last week identified in medical papers a patient as Jewish, but suspended him over antisemitic cartoons posted on his social-media account in 2023.
The physician was identified as Dr. Qasim Arkawazy by the Jewish Information and Documentation Center, a communal watchdog group in Antwerp.
On Aug. 29, Arkawazy included references to a patient’s nationality and ethnicity in a hospital admission form in his capacity as a radiologist at AZ Zeno Campus Knokke-Heist, the hospital wrote in a statement on Tuesday. The patient was a 9-year-old girl who came in for treatment for pain in her left arm, her medical papers stated.
