NHS trainee surgeon suspended after spewing antisemitic hatred and glorifying Palestinian terror on social media.
Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan, a British-Palestinian Arab NHS doctor and trainee surgeon, has been suspended for 15 months after a tribunal ruled she repeatedly posted extremist, antisemitic, and pro-terrorism messages online. The decision, reported by The Telegraph, came from the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) following a three-day hearing in Manchester.
The panel determined her suspension was required to protect the public, safeguard Jewish patients, and uphold confidence in the medical profession. The posts under investigation included repeatedly calling Israelis “worse than Nazis,” referring to Hamas terrorists as “oppressed resistance fighters,” and describing the Royal Free Hospital as a “Jewish supremacy cesspit.”
Instead of expressing remorse, Aladwan responded with even more inflammatory rhetoric. In a defiant social-media post, she claimed:
“The ‘israeli’ and Jewish lobby decide who can and cannot practise medicine in Britain… Free Palestine and Britain from Jewish supremacy.”
She further declared her disciplinary ruling “the beginning of a greater battle,” and posted a Quran verse invoking divine retaliation — comments that alarmed Jewish groups and underscored the ideological nature of her extremism.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews condemned her response, saying her new comments reaffirm her “deeply hateful and wholly incompatible” views. The Campaign Against Antisemitism described her language as “grotesque” revivals of classic Jew-hate tropes and urged her permanent removal from British medicine.
Although the General Medical Council (GMC) sought suspension, it may now escalate the case to a full tribunal to bar her from practising permanently.
This incident follows earlier controversies: in September, Aladwan avoided suspension despite being filmed making “slit your throat” gestures at Jewish protesters and dismissing the Holocaust as a “fabricated victim narrative.”
Her case is fast becoming a high-profile test of the UK’s ability to combat antisemitism, pro-terror ideology, and radicalization within public institutions.
