Doctor who was ‘regretful enough rats were not liquidated at Auschwitz” struck off UK medical register
Comments made by Manoj Sen on 10 October 2023 included describing a Jewish man as “circumcised vermin” and quoting the Nazi slogan - "the Jews are our misfortune"
A retired doctor who made a series of antisemitic comments, including describing a Jewish man as “circumcised vermin” and stating that he was “regretful enough rats were not liquidated at Auschwitz”, has been struck off the UK medical register.
Manoj Sen, who previously worked as a colorectal surgeon at Northwich Park hospital in North London, made the comments, which included the infamous Nazi quote “Die Juden sind unsere Ungluck” (“the Jews are our misfortune”), on Facebook three days after the 7 October 2023 mass terror attacks by Hamas. Sen also told the Jewish man the comments were addressed to, identified as “Mr A” that he was “Jewish c*nt” and “Jewboy” and wrote that “he belongs in the flames of a crematorium.”
Sen was subsequently arrested and issued with a caution for “racially/religiously aggravated harassment/alarm/distress by words/writing” and for “sending a communication/article of an indecent/offensive nature.” In November 2023, Jewish News reported that Northwick Park hospital had parted ways with Sen, saying: “Mr Sen is no longer an employee of London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust. We do not tolerate hate speech or discrimination of any kind and take immediate action when such behaviour is brought to our attention.”
Despite Sen retiring in the interim, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service suspended his license to practice during the 28 day appeal period; he has now been officially struck off the UK medical register.
The tribunal chair, Gillian Temple-Bone, said, “The tribunal considered that his comments demonstrated a deep rooted hostility which raised a real concern about his ability to provide equality of care to all members of the public.”
It is unclear how the MPTS was able to reach this conclusion in one such case while simultaneously finding in the last two months two doctors who have regularly posted on social media about so-called “Jewish supremacy” in the UK, as well as sharing a variety of conspiracy theories, should not have their licenses suspended while the General Medical Council (GMC) evaluates their conduct. The Secretary of State for Health, Wes Streeting, told Jewish News last month he has “no confidence” in the medical regulation system, after the second of those two doctors, Rahmeh Aladwan, was let off by the tribunal.
In a statement to the GMC last year, Sen claimed: “I must have lost my senses as in the heat of the moment I made wrongful and injudicious remarks —for which I have apologised in public on Facebook as well as privately to the police.”
He claimed that “those remarks are entirely out of character. I am neither racist nor an antisemite.”
He added, “At no time did I make any anti-Israeli comments. These comments were purely personal in nature, however injudicious. I had already retired after 43 years as a doctor with much of 25 of them spent in the NHS.”
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