When senior figures in the human rights and humanitarian sector publicly and privately model the attitudes documented in this submission, they do more than express personal views. They set institutional tone, confer legitimacy on those below them, and signal to staff, funders, media, and the public what the sector values, who it protects—and how it is permissible to speak about Jews.

Karunakara served as the International President of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) / Doctors Without Borders from 2010 to 2013. He was a Senior Fellow of the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University from 2014-2017, and was Assistant Clinical Professor at the Mailman School of Public Health (2008-2017), both at Columbia University. From 2020, he was a senior fellow at Yale Law School.

Image: Tweet by Unni Karunakara, long time MSF staffer, international secretary general, board member at Doctors Without Borders (MSF), following the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh, Oct 2018, in which 11 people were killed. Unni Karunakara @UnniKarunakara “Blame for the shooting must be shared by Zionists like Netanyahu for enabling white nationalists like Trump, stoking fear and hatred all around.”

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