A British medical ethics panel last week suspended for 15 months a physician who downplayed Nazi persecution of Jews, inveighed against Jews online and defended Hamas terrorists.
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service on Wednesday said that Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan’s posts on social networks in recent months “may impact on patient confidence” in her while patients could be “discouraged” from seeking treatment from her, the BBC reported.
On Sept. 25, the same panel said Aladwan could keep practicing while it continued its review of her conduct, which led to her suspension on Wednesday.
Aladwan, who is 31 and describes herself as British-Palestinian, called Nazi persecution a “fabricated victim narrative” promoted by “Jewish supremacists,” defended the Oct. 7, 2023, massacres and glorified Palestinian terrorists as “martyrs.”
Separately, the General Medical Council, which maintains the official register of medical practitioners within the U.K., is investigating her fitness to practice.
Aladwan, a trainee in trauma and orthopedics, has defended her rhetoric, including calling Israelis “worse than Nazis,” stating, “I will never condemn the 7th of October.” She’s denied that any rapes took place during the Hamas-led massacres in 2023, and said that “Jewish supremacy and extremism existed before” Nazism, “and no fabricated victim narrative will ever justify or excuse colonizing Palestine and committing genocide.”
Some of her other tweets included the assertion that “Jewish Supremacy—It is synonymous with Zionism,” and “World jewry remains largely in support of jewish supremacy (Zionism), terrorism, and extremism.”
Antisemitism, she added, “is a misnomer. It’s identity theft. Most jews are not Semites. Palestinians are the Semites.”
Anti-Jewish hatred “is also irrelevant here, as the central issue is the Holocaust being perpetrated against the Palestinians,” Aladwan wrote. “The jewish lobby and jewish supremacists need to have some shame.”
