Thank you for your support. 

JAMA editors gave a second response:  

"Thank you for your response and for sharing these concerns. As a scholarly medical journal, JAMA encourages criticism and discourse about published articles in the journal.

JAMA welcomes critiques of articles in the form of Letters to the Editor. Guidance for preparing and submitting Letters to the Editor can be found here. While we cannot guarantee publication, I will give submissions full and prompt consideration.

JAMA also welcomes Viewpoints and Original Investigations on the topic of healthcare and the current conflict.  JAMA has a long history of publishing research and opinion articles on health and human rights of those affected by war and conflict.  Information on submitting to JAMA can be found here.

I hope you will pursue these option"

Accepting this offer for rebuttal, we submitted a Viewpoint manuscript today. The following was communicated as well: 

"Thank you for your response. Following your advice, we submitted a manuscript, as a Viewpoint. A Viewpoint may do justice to the topic. Using an example, the article offers an alternative perspective to the humanitarian situation in Gaza and critiques selective academic handling of international catastrophes. 

You are right: JAMA has a long history of publishing on human rights and war, which is the level of engagement we expect from all leading medical journals. However, your diverse readers do not feel that the views in JAMA publication on global events reflect an unbiased account, as exemplified by the opinions of the 13000 signatories to the petition. We encourage JAMA to listen to health professionals trying to offer their unique lens to examine health injustice. 

We hope you give the manuscript fair, full, and prompt consideration- as you promised. We are aware of at least one other rejected viewpoint on the matter. Hopefully, a manuscript will be scholarly enough at some point. "

We will keep you updated.