Jewish doctor’s allegations expose disturbing antisemitism concerns inside Britain’s NHS.”
A Jewish British doctor has raised alarming allegations of antisemitism inside the National Health Service, claiming that some medical professionals said they would refuse life-saving emergency treatment to patients from Israel.
The doctor, identified only as Baruch, told ITV News that he had encountered clinicians at a London hospital who openly stated they would not treat Israelis, even in life-threatening emergency situations. The allegations have triggered condemnation from the UK Department of Health and Social Care and renewed scrutiny of antisemitism within the healthcare system.
“It is very scary to me,” Baruch said, describing conversations with doctors who allegedly said they would not treat people from certain parts of the world. He called the idea of withholding emergency care from Israelis “disgraceful.”
Baruch also claimed that Jewish hospital patients had been denied kosher meals, deepening concerns that antisemitic hostility may be affecting both Jewish staff and patients. Reports of such incidents come as the UK government has already ordered an urgent review, led by Lord John Mann, into antisemitism and other forms of racism across the NHS.
The Department of Health and Social Care described the reports as “shocking” and acknowledged that the healthcare professional regulatory system is failing to protect Jewish patients and NHS staff. Officials said the government would use every available tool to ensure Jewish healthcare workers feel safe at work.
For Baruch and his family, the hostility has become personal and final. He and his wife are preparing to leave Britain for Israel, ending a family presence in the UK that stretches back roughly 400 years to the era of Jewish resettlement under Oliver Cromwell. Baruch said leaving because of antisemitism, despite his family’s long British history, was deeply painful.
The claims emerge amid heightened fears among British Jews following a series of antisemitic incidents. In April 2026, two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green in an attack treated by police as terrorism, and the UK subsequently raised its national terrorism threat level from “substantial” to “severe.”
The NHS allegations now add a grave new dimension to Britain’s antisemitism crisis: the fear that prejudice may not only threaten Jewish safety in public spaces, but could undermine trust in essential medical care itself.
