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Gross Medical Complacency 17 July 2025
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21 Tamuz 5785
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Issue No.1428
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No further action: Dr Rahmeh Aladwan arrested at an anti-Israel protest
Health minister accuses GMC of ‘abysmal failure’ to protect Jewish patients
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has pledged to “haul in the GMC’s chief executive and chair” to explain why the body is “failing publicly and abysmally in its responsibility to protect Jewish patients”, writes Daniel Sugarman. In a fiery speech on Tuesday at a joint summit on antisemitism in the health sector, hosted by the APPG on antisemitism and the office of the government’s independent adviser on antisemitism, Lord Mann, Streeting cited “cases of medics who’ve said things that would make me feel uncomfortable to be treated by those medics and even unsafe being treated by them – and I’m not Jewish. “There are cases that our country’s medical regulator should be taking seriously, and they should be taking all steps necessary to keep patients safe and I do not see
identifies a specific, the evidence that this unaddressed issue is the case.” of antisemitism In his address, in the NHS, Streeting cited I take that the Jewish finding with c o m m u n i t y ’s the utmost long history seriousness.” of service The health within the s e c r e t a r y ’s NHS, as well comments also as the Board of came as Jewish Deputies’ newlyNews published two published Commisseparate investigations sion on Antisemitism, which was co-chaired by Wes Streeting MP providing examples of NHS doctors engaging in Lord Mann and Penny Mordaunt, the former defence repeated comments about “Jewish secretary. The health secretary supremacy”, explicitly rejecting described the report as “pretty the idea of making a distinction between Zionism and Judaism – to sobering reading”. “It concludes that antisemitism little long-term effect. The GMC is understood to has crept into our country’s civil society in a way that hasn’t hap- have opened a case last year into Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, a pened before, including our NHS. “When the Board of Deputies member of Palestine Action
Suspension lifted: Dr Rehiana Ali outside court this week
before it was proscribed as a terrorist organisation earlier this month, but subsequently closed the case, saying it did not meet the required threshold. The organisation then opened another investigation into her earlier this year but that, despite social comments from Aladwan about “Jewish schools” in Britain and how “the UK is occupied and controlled by Jewish supremacy”, no further action has been taken. On Tuesday, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service lifted the interim suspension of Dr Rehiana Ali, who has a history of spreading conspiracy theories about Jews and
talking about “Jewish extremism”. The MPTS appeared to accept Ali’s claim during her hearing that she was speaking “about Israel and Israelis”, despite considerable evidence to the contrary. The MPTS panel acted despite the GMC supporting a continuance of the interim suspension, which was in place while the organisation investigated the reports into Ali’s conduct. In his remarks, Streeting said he was “extremely concerned that we’ve now seen multiple instances when blatant antisemitism from NHS doctors is going unaddressed.” Continued p2; Editorial, p20