A recent post by Middle East Monitor (MEMO) centered on the allegation that in April 2025, Dr Swee Ang was “deplatformed” in a conference sponsored by the British Medical Association (BMA). According to MEMO, the invitation was withdrawn “due to an item mentioned on her Wikipedia page, that eleven years earlier she had forwarded a link to a video [“CNN Goldman Sachs & the Zio Matrix.”] by the US white supremacist and antisemite David Duke.” Ang, co-founder of Medical Aid for Palestinians, was also the co-author of a propaganda letter published in UK medical journal The Lancet, repeating blatantly false accusations of “massacres” by Israel, while erasing the murder of Israelis that triggered this (and all) IDF actions in Gaza against Hamas.

MEMO notably omitted the text of Ang’s email, sent with the David Duke video: “This is shocking video please watch. This is not about Palestine – it is about all of us!,,, SEE THIS VIDEO BEFORE IT IS REMOVED FROM CIRCULATION – Please do pass on to others who you think would be interested and would pass on>>>The whole world needs to know.” (Image below)

The MEMO article cites the events of August 2014, during the Gaza conflict that took place that year following a series of deadly Hamas-led attacks, when “Dr Gerald Steinberg, president of the Israeli pressure group [sic] NGO Monitor, wrote to Elsevier, the publishers of The Lancet, demanding that they withdraw the open letter, on the grounds that Swee and one of the other authors “traded in anti-semitic conspiracy theories… Steinberg’s allegation that Swee ‘traded in anti-semitic conspiracy theories’ can only be based on her having shared the link to Duke’s video with a small number of close contacts.”

NGO Monitor’s documentation on Ang and The Lancet, including the video issue, was, as noted in the MEMO piece, then cited in a Daily Telegraph article, “Lancet ‘hijacked in anti-Israel campaign‘” focusing on the intense protest of senior British medical professionals regarding Lancet editor Richard Horton. In addition to the Ang et al “open letter on Gaza,” NGO Monitor’s publications presented detailed research and analysis on the numerous pseudo-scientific articles targeting Israel, published by Horton without peer review, and based on false and unverifiable accusations primarily sourced to activist NGOs. Shortly after these events, Horton came to Israel, declared that he was not an antisemite, expressed regret for having published the Ang et al screed, and apologized for his behavior.

Based in London, MEMO’s funding is not transparent, and, like Al Jazeera, it is considered to be a Qatar and Muslim Brotherhood influence platform. The attempt to promote or rehabilitate Ang through a highly distorted pseudo-journalistic article is consistent with this agenda. A significant portion of this article is copied from the UK propaganda organization CAMPAIN, which, among other actions, supports former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.