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In the U.K., an NHS doctor, Rahmeh Aladwan, exhibits all the signs of terminal antisemitism. She is, of course, a mortal threat to any Jewish patients she might have, but there is a broader question: when someone is so brain-addled by hate, and can no longer recognize reality, can she be trusted with any patient? More on this menace with an M.D., Rahmeh Aladwan, can be found here: “Rabid pro-Hamas, antisemitic NHS doctor referred to tribunal, may lose license,” by Mathilda Heller, Jerusalem Post, September 3, 2025:
Vociferous pro-Hamas UK NHS doctor Rahmeh Aladwan has been referred to the Interim Orders Tribunal (IOT) and faces losing her license, she announced on X/Twitter last week.
The IOT is part of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, which makes independent decisions about whether doctors, physician associates, and anesthesia associates are fit to practice in the UK.
In the post, Aladwan claimed that “the ‘Israel lobby’ is trying to suspend me and revoke my medical license, bypassing the normal investigative process by claiming it is ‘in the public interest.’” She claims the reason for this is because she is “against its genocidal entity and Jewish supremacy [Zionism].”
“This is not the result of any professional failure, but the outcome of a coordinated lobbying campaign against me because of my public stance against the genocide in Gaza being carried out with my tax pounds,” she added.
Aladwan took part in 300 protest marches over the last 23 months. How much time could she possibly have devoted, as she is obligated to do as a NHS doctor (private practice is a different matter), to the practice of medicine, including both treatment of patients and keeping up to date with the relevant literature? Inattention to her NHS duties suggest that even without her record of hate-filled hysteria, she should be struck off.
Aladwan is a prominent pro-Palestine activist, having (according to her) participated in over 300 protests in the last 23 months.
She has been reported on many occasions to the General Medical Council. Nevertheless, Jewish News noted that Aladwan’s referral to the IOT does not guarantee that she will no longer be able to practice medicine in the UK.
The outlet reported in August that another antisemitic NHS medic, Dr Rehiana Ali, had her suspension lifted by the IOT, despite having made claims such as “Judaism is the only religion in human history whose religious texts (e.g., Mishna) literally prescribe a sacred command to kill every Christian on earth.”
There is no such claim in Judaism’s texts calling for Christians to be killed. In the Qur’an, however, there are many verses that instruct Muslims that when they meet the “Unbelievers” — that is, any non-Muslims — that they “strike at their necks.” (47:4) It is Islam, not Judaism, that calls for, in some circumstances, murdering those who are regarded as Unbelievers.
On Wednesday, Aladwan retweeted a post that read, “October 7 was an act of resistance – a retaliatory strike. The Jewish occupation and squatters have inflicted oppression and terror on our people for decades. Palestinians have every right to defend themselves; that was just one day of Palestinians doing so out of many.”
Aladwan has made clear that she wants the “people of Israel” (Am Yisrael) — that is, the Jews — to die. All of them, whether Israeli or not. She longs for the total destruction of Israel and its replacement by a 23rd Arab state.
Quaere: Should someone be allowed to practice medicine who is so unhinged by hate as to conclude that the surprise attack by 6,000 members of Hamas, who smashed into Israel on October 7, 2023, and proceeded to decapitate babies, tie families together with wire and burn them to death, repeatedly rape girls and women before killing them, slice breasts off women and genitalia off men, gouge out the eyes of both women and men, is justified “resistance” to an “occupation”? And what “occupation” does Rahmeh Aladwan mean? Has she forgotten that not a single Israeli has been in Gaza since 2005?
Aladwan also claims that the IDF has raped “Palestinian” women. There are no reported rapes by the IDF of “Palestinian” girls or women. In fact, Israelis have in the past been accused of “racism” for notraping Arab women, apparently not finding them attractive enough — a sure sign of “racism.” As for Aladwan’s claim that “the number of proven rapes on October 7 is ZERO,” she is ignoring the evidence provided by the Hamas rapists themselves, who videotaped themselves as they raped and sodomized Israeli girls and women on October 7, so pleased and proud were they with their own exploits, wanting to share them with friends and family back in Gaza. The IDF managed to find quite a few of those videos, and they have been made widely available. But Rahmeh Aladwan insists there were no cases of “rape and sodomy” on October 7. When someone is this far from reality, we have a right to question that person’s ability to provide reliable medical care. She’s unhinged by hate — and that is an explanation, not a justification. Should the British government be employing someone in its public medical service who is a mortal threat to Jewish patients and fellow medical personnel, and whose understanding of the world is so skewed by hate that her judgements on many matters are likely to be affected? She should be struck off by the NHS. Don’t worry about Rahmeh Aladwan. She’ll be able to promptly find work as a doctor in the UAE, or Saudi Arabia, or Qatar.