‘Jewish supremacy’ diatribe doctor arrested, blames ‘Israeli-Jewish lobby’
Police refer to 'allegations that comments made at a protest and online in recent months were grossly offensive and antisemitic in nature'
A doctor who has become notorious for her diatribes about “Jewish supremacy” in the UK has been arrested by the police, days before another hearing into her conduct is due to be heard by a medical tribunal.
Video footage released on social media showed Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, who has previously described herself as a “British-Palestinian doctor” being arrested this morning.
In video footage, a female Metropolitan Police officer can be seen telling Aladwan: “You’re under arrest for four offences: malicious communications times three, and for inciting racial hatred”, referring to “section 1 of the Malicious Communication Act and section 127 of the Misuse of Public Communications Network.”
The officer refers to a speech “on 21 July, at a pro-Palestine protest which took place outside the Foreign and Commonwealth Office… which amounted to calls for the eradication of Israel and implied support for all those involved in armed resistance against Israel, including organisations such as Hamas.”
She also mentioned “comments that can be interpreted as antisemitic, including antisemitic tropes which could be considered grossly offensive in character. On 7 October you posted a variety of communication which demonstrated support for Hamas’s attack on Israel, an attack which involved murder, rape and kidnap of Israeli citizens, all of which may be considered grossly offensive in character.”
Previous comments by Aladwan included 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’.” However, on 7 October this year, marking two years since the mass murder carried out by Hamas, she tweeted: “7 October – the day Israel was humiliated. Their supremacy shattered at the hands of the children they forced out of their homes. The children who watched foreign jews execute their loved ones, rape their land, and live on their stolen soil.”
She also posted a picture of one of the bulldozers used by Hamas to break down the border fence between Gaza and Israel on 7 October 2023, writing: “Glory to the breaking of the 17 year long illegal siege. Glory to the Palestinian resistance. Glory to our martyrs. Al-Aqsa flood. Palestine.”
‘Al Aqsa flood’ is the name that Hamas gave to its 7 October 2023 mass-terror attack.
Just a week earlier, Aladwan had responded to news that hospitals across Manchester were ‘on lockdown, with people told not to attend A&E’ after the Synagogue terror attack, by saying “This is extremely concerning. A hospital is a pillar of civic society, a sanctuary of care that must remain universally accessible. When the State commands these institutions to close their doors to all but the most critically injured, it weaponizes public health and safety. It effectively places a specific community’s security above the healthcare of the entire population, creating a dangerous and discriminatory precedent…This action frames an entire group or community as so separate, so uniquely threatened or threatening, that the normal functioning of society must be halted for them. This is highly divisive and erodes the very principle of universal public provision that the National Health Service was founded upon.”
In a highly controversial ruling in September, the Medical Practitioner Tribunals Service (MPTS) had said Aladwan should keep her license to practice medicine while the General Medical Council (GMC) continued its investigation into her conduct. The tribunal said that it did not view the evidence it had seen as “sufficient to establish that there may be a real risk to patients”. However, after her 7 October comments, Aladwan was re-referred to the MPTS, with another hearing due to be held this Thursday.
As the handcuffs were put on Aladwan, the video shows her saying:
“This is what the UK does to their doctors that are Palestinian, who have had family and friends murdered and who are anti-genocide. That’s it, that’s all we advocate for”, she claimed.
“You know you’re doing this for the Israeli Jewish lobby, so you can get an arrest on me before my tribunal on Thursday.”
A CST spokesperson said: “We welcome this arrest which is long overdue and hope the General Medical Council is finally paying attention.”
The Campaign Against Antisemitism, which recently announced it would launch a private prosecution against Aladwan, said:
“We have submitted numerous complaints to the General Medical Council (GMC) regarding this doctor, who is a prolific poster of the most deranged material and claims about Jewish people, and is self-evidently unfit to serve as a regulated professional. The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) inexplicably disagreed, allowing her to continue to practice as a trainee pending further investigation, and we have threatened legal action.
“But now even the Met Police — hardly the most proactive institution in the fight against antisemitism — believes that her conduct is so incendiary as to have potentially crossed the criminal threshold.
“What an absolute embarrassment to our medical regulator, and what a disgrace that it cannot see what ordinary people and even the Met Police can. Clearly, the GMC and the MPTS are unfit for purpose.”
A Met Police spokesperson said: “On the morning of Tuesday, 21 October officers arrested a 31-year-old woman at an address in South Gloucestershire.
“The woman was arrested on suspicion of misusing a public communications network, sending malicious communications and stirring up racial hatred.
“The arrests relate to an ongoing investigation, led by the Met’s Public Order Crime Team, into allegations that comments made at a protest and online in recent months were grossly offensive and antisemitic in nature.
“She remains in custody.”
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