Warning of NHS ‘antisemitism epidemic’ as paediatrician’s ‘Jewish supremacy’ rants exposed
Dr Ellen Kriesels, who is a named doctor for child protection, described 7 October as 'always trying to frame the Jews as victims. So ridiculous,. So excruciating. So exhausting.'
The Jewish community’s key security charity has described how antisemitism within the NHS “risks becoming an epidemic”, after a senior paediatrician at a north London hospital has been found to have regularly posted about “Jewish supremacy” while describing Hamas as “oppressed resistance fighters, NOT terrorists”.
Dr Ellen Kreisels, a consultant developmental paediatrician, clinical lead and named doctor for child protection, was pictured at an anti-Israel demonstration on Saturday, holding a sign featuring a flag of Israel – with the six points of the Star of David emblazoned with the words “Rape”, “Steal”, “Cry”, “Lie”, “Cheat” and “Kill”.
A social media account featuring Kreisels’ name and picture was found to have been sharing extreme messages directed at Jews – including anti-Zionist Jews, whose denunciations of Israel’s actions in Gaza appear to have not been satisfactory enough for her.
“Virtually every Jew has some feelings of supremacy (result of their Zionist upbringing) and they might oppose Zionism, but they are not going to challenge their precious community. That just doesn’t feel right to them!” Kreisels said in a response to Rahmeh Aladwan, another doctor notorious for her diatribes about “Jewish supremacy”.
Another read: “When one claims to oppose Zionism but goes on and on about their Jewish heritage and Jewish millennia of persecution, one shows their feelings of Jewish supremacy, never mind they oppose the political ideology of Zionism. Jewish supremacy underpins Zionism.”
Responding to condemnation of Jews who held up “Not in my name” signs opposing Israel’s actions in Gaza, she said: “It can only be chanted by Jews, emphasising their perceived exclusivity. Same with the Jewish bloc at marches; emphasising Jewish exclusivity. Did men form male exclusive blocs at ‘Me Too’ marches? Or whites at BLM marches? Jewish supremacy at every turn.”
Responding to a Twitter account which described Jews as being “addicted to victimisation”, Kriesels said: “Jewish supremacy is the ideology at the root of all this evil. Jewish supremacy is prevalent among Jews who are into Judaism (religious/observant) and amongst Jews who are not into Judaism but are still as Jewish. They are into ‘Jewishness’. Ridiculous, I know.”
In response to a tweet from a Canadian-based doctor claiming, among other things, that “Jews are the most racist, violent people on earth”, Kriesels said: “And anybody saying ‘not all Jews’ doesn’t get it. You are like the ‘not all men’ (Me Too protests) and ‘all lives matter’ (BLM protest) brigades. Clutching your pearls and deflecting from the evil that is going on; Jews slaughtering non-Jews.”
Responding to Jewish News, a Community Security Trust spokesperson said: “The antisemitism problem within the NHS risks becoming an epidemic. It is blatantly obvious that if these racist comments were made about any other minority, both the hospital and the General Medical Council would immediately act with severe professional consequences for Dr Kreisels.”
Last month Kreisels said that she had “Just graduated from thinking ‘It is Zionism, nothing to do with Judaism’, to ‘it is Jewish supremacy’. This recent change in understanding the root of the problem has also made me aware that maybe I am not quite there yet and have further to go!”
Last week when a notorious anti-Israel Twitter account prefaced an anti-Israel tweet by saying “No one wishes any harm to Jewish people. To say otherwise is a complete lie”, Kriesel’s response was “why the disclaimer?”
Some of the UK’s most prominent vehemently anti-Zionist Jews have found themselves on the receiving end of Kreisels’ purity tests. She described on social media how she had been blocked by Michael Rosen. She had asked him: “do you FULLY oppose Zionism? Some of your posts are a bit off and I just wonder whether you think that there are some good or reasonable bits to Zionism.” When he responded telling her that she wasn’t a “prosecutor, judge, interrogator, political comrade in action, journalist who I’ve agreed can interview me, torturer or one of my parents”, Kreisels responded “Hit a nerve, did I? When the mask comes off…nice to have my hunch confirmed.” And in response to now-notorious comments by the actress Miriam Margolyes about Gaza that “Hitler won; he changed us”, Kriesels said: “Why mention your sense of victimhood AT ALL when your fellow Jews are committing a gleeful genocide.”
When the anti-Zionist Jewish Voice for Labour group attempted to question her depiction of Jews, Kriesels claimed that “feelings of superiority is a minority view in each group. Amongst Jews; vast majority”.
Talking about 7 October 2023, when Hamas murdered 1,200 men, woman and children, the paediatrician said “Some Jews ‘merely’ say it was a progrom [sic]. Other Jews ‘merely’ say that it was antisemitic. Always trying to frame the Jews as victims. So ridiculous,. So excruciating. So exhausting.”
Specifically describing Hamas members killed in Gaza, Kriesels said: “The non-civilians are Hamas and whether they are 1% or 18% of the Palestinians slaughtered, they should not have been killed either. Do not whitewash the murder of Hamas members. They are a political party and oppressed resistance fighters. NOT terrorists.”
Kreisels also said that “’Jewishness’ is not an ethnicity but Ashkenazi Jews ARE a (sub) ethnicity. Like Slavics or Scandinavians are. In theory you could thus be racist to this group. The fact is that very few are truly racist towards this group (and the other groups). It truly is a hoax.
“This hoax is facilitated by the fact that Ashkenazi Jews say they are not white. Of course they are, just like Scandinavians and Slavics. They believe this deception themselves as they have been raised to feel exceptional. This is another manifestation of Jewish supremacy.”
A spokesperson for Whittington Health NHS Trust said: “We have heard the concerns relating to one of our employees raised on social media in recent days. We are taking appropriate action to investigate and it would not be appropriate to comment further on an internal management issue.
“However we do wish to make clear that there is no place at Whittington Health for any form of discrimination, racism, antisemitism or islamophobia and that any opinions any employee may express in their private capacity do not reflect the views of the Trust in any way.”
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