The Israel Medical Association has appealed to MK Dr. Ahmed Tibi, demanding that he retract his statements against National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, after he called him a "psychopath" in an interview.
The remarks were made in an interview Tibi gave to 103FM, after a birthday party held for Ben Gvir on Saturday night, at which a cake was presented with a hanging rope - and a wreath - and the inscription: "Dreams come true.".
During the interview, Tibi said: "I am forced to use my additional function as a doctor even though this case is not in my specialty. This family urgently needs a psychiatrist. These are two psychopaths.".
Following the statement, complaints were received from doctors to the Ethics Bureau of the Medical Association.
The chairman of the chamber, Dr. Yossi Walfish, sent Tibi a letter, entitled "Diagnosing public figures from the armchair of television and the media" - in which he mentioned the duty of caution that applies to doctors when making public statements, especially with regard to diagnosing public figures through the media.
The letter reads: "We ask you to retract the statements as presented in the article and to show discretion and restraint in your statements in the future.".
MK Dr. Ahmed Tibi's office stated that the Ethics Committee "chose to remain silent in the face of serious violations of medical ethics," including, according to him, harm to prisoners and obstruction of medical treatment, but chose to deal specifically with his statements against Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.
It was also stated: "If the ethics committee ignores actual violations of medical ethics and deals only with that, it is testifying against itself. Double standards are not ethics.".
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