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[[Norman Cohen]] is a committee member of the [[British Israel Group]] (BIG). His wife [[Lola Cohen]] is also a member of the organisation. They live together in the illegal Israeli settlement of Gilo in southern Jerusalem.<ref name ="Gilo">Judy Lash Balint, 'Op-Ed: Getting to Know You', ''Arutz Sheva 7'', 29 January 2003, accessed 2 June 2015.</ref> | [[Norman Cohen]] is a committee member of the [[British Israel Group]] (BIG). His wife [[Lola Cohen]] is also a member of the organisation. They live together in the illegal Israeli settlement of Gilo in southern Jerusalem.<ref name ="Gilo">Judy Lash Balint, 'Op-Ed: Getting to Know You', ''Arutz Sheva 7'', 29 January 2003, accessed 2 June 2015.</ref> | ||
| − | In October 2004, in his capacity as the Chairman of the BIG Cohen wrote a letter to British Medical Journal criticising an article on the Israel-Palestine conflict published by the journal.<ref name ="response">Norman W. Cohen, 'Response from the British Israel Group', ''British Medical Journal'', 25 October 2004, accessed 2 June 2015.</ref> In his letter he requested that the BMJ address its supposed bias against Israel by publishing an article by former Director-General of Israel's Ministry of Health, Theo Dov Golan in which Golan claimed that: 'Israel has set an example of a level of humanitarian medical aid to others including Palestinians, which no other nation can compete with.'<ref name ="response">Norman W. Cohen, 'Response from the British Israel Group', ''British Medical Journal'', 25 October 2004, accessed 2 June 2015.</ref> | + | In October 2004, in his capacity as the Chairman of the BIG Cohen wrote a letter to the British Medical Journal criticising an article on the Israel-Palestine conflict published by the journal.<ref name ="response">Norman W. Cohen, 'Response from the British Israel Group', ''British Medical Journal'', 25 October 2004, accessed 2 June 2015.</ref> In his letter he requested that the BMJ address its supposed bias against Israel by publishing an article by former Director-General of Israel's Ministry of Health, Theo Dov Golan in which Golan claimed that: 'Israel has set an example of a level of humanitarian medical aid to others including Palestinians, which no other nation can compete with.'<ref name ="response">Norman W. Cohen, 'Response from the British Israel Group', ''British Medical Journal'', 25 October 2004, accessed 2 June 2015.</ref> |
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Norman Cohen is a committee member of the British Israel Group (BIG). His wife Lola Cohen is also a member of the organisation. They live together in the illegal Israeli settlement of Gilo in southern Jerusalem.[1]
In October 2004, in his capacity as the Chairman of the BIG Cohen wrote a letter to the British Medical Journal criticising an article on the Israel-Palestine conflict published by the journal.[2] In his letter he requested that the BMJ address its supposed bias against Israel by publishing an article by former Director-General of Israel's Ministry of Health, Theo Dov Golan in which Golan claimed that: 'Israel has set an example of a level of humanitarian medical aid to others including Palestinians, which no other nation can compete with.'[2]
