ANOTHER “Jewish supremacy” rant doctor let off by Medical Practitioner Tribunal Service
The MPTS has declined to suspend Dr Rahmeh Aladwan's license while the GMC investigates her conduct - months after lifting a suspension order against Dr Rehiana Ali
A doctor who regularly posts diatribes about “Jewish supremacy” on social media and has called for the ethnic cleansing of Jews from Israel has been allowed by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) to continue practicing medicine while the General Medical Council investigates her conduct.
Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, who was also a member of Palestine Action before its proscription as a terrorist organisation, is now infamous within the British Jewish community for such claims as “the UK is occupied and controlled by Jewish supremacy – in fact, most Christian majority countries are”, and that the Royal Free Hospital in London, which has a large number of Jewish patients given its location, is a “Jewish Supremacy Cesspit”.
On Thursday, the Medical Practitioner Tribunals Service (MPTS) ruled that Aladwan, who has parroted extreme far right talking points like the idea that “Rabbis need to reject the Amalek commandment and the notion that non-jews are lesser than goyim”, is fit to practice medicine while the GMC investigation into her continues.
Further comments by Aladwan include the statement that “I don’t condemn Hamas. I don’t condemn October 7. I don’t condemn armed resistance to Occupation. I condemn ‘Israel’.” She has also targeted Jewish schools with her invective, tweeting that ““The total number of anti-supremacist (anti-Zionist) Jewish schools in the UK is ZERO. There are 136 Jewish schools in Britain, many of which are funded by our taxes, where 36,064 British Jewish children are taught that they are superior to non-Jews, that they have the right to colonise Palestine and are groomed through birthright trips to become colonisers, upholders of apartheid, and genocidal IOF terrorists. This has to stop.”
Aladwan has also previously posted on Twitter that she was “not trying to be unreasonable, but every f***ing settler will leave Palestine. It’s not for liberal Jewish supremacists (Zionists) or their enablers to decide that Palestinians must live with their land thieves, murderers and rapists. Algeria did it. So will Palestine.”
In the aftermath of the Algerian War of Independence, all but a small number of the country’s 140,000 Jews left the country, most going to France, although some left for Israel. According to the United States Commission report on International religious freedom, the Nationality Code passed in 1963 deprived non-Muslims of Algerian citizenship.
In August the GMC told Jewish News that “antisemitism and all forms of prejudice and discrimination have no place in healthcare. We make clear what we expect from doctors, and our guidance, good medical practice and fitness to practice processes help to reinforce these expectations. We do this so patients’ trust in the professions we regulate is maintained, and they receive good safe care.
“Doctors and patients should have confidence that if a concern is raised with the GMC it will be dealt with appropriately. We are prepared to take cases we investigate to the tribunals service who make independent decisions based on the merits of each case, and any relevant legislation.”
Video footage today showed Aladwan outside the St James’ office buildings in Manchester, where the MPTS holds its tribunals, surrounded by well-wishers waving Palestinian flags and wearing keffiyehs. Aladwan said she wanted “to thank the MPTS panel, for making the right decision and not persecuting me for my political speech and most importantly my speech that is aimed at stopping the Holocaust of Palestinians in Gaza…I am very grateful that I was not used as an example today to silence my fellow healthcare workers in Britain.”
Aladwan went on to state that “today the panel confirmed that my speech was perfectly legal”, before clarifying that “they can’t make decisions on law, per se, but they confirmed that my speech, number one, doesn’t make me a dangerous doctor, that there was no evidence given that I was a danger to any patient – and number two, that all of my speech was in my remit and didn’t cross the line, and that includes my criticism of Jewish supremacy, my support of armed resistance of the occupied Palestinian people as per international law…that is not ‘antisemitic’.”
She claimed that the panel “confirmed that I am a semite. Palestinians are semites. We shouldn’t use antisemitism, it should be anti-Jewish hatred, and nothing we say in order to save the Palestinians from the Israeli Jewish society and Occupation forces that are supporting or carrying out the Holocaust is anti-Jewish hatred.”
Those in the crowd included Dr Rehiana Ali, who celebrated what she described as “another loss for the rabid pro-“israeli” lobbies!” In July Ali had her interim suspension lifted by an MPTS tribunal, despite her own well-documented history of spreading conspiracy theories about Jews and talking about “Jewish extremism”.
The same month, Health Secretary Wes Streeting gave a speech to Jewish leaders in which he pledged to “haul in the GMC’s chief executive and chair” to explain why the public body is “failing publicly and abysmally in their responsibility to protect Jewish patients”.
The MPTS has been contacted for comment.
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