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UK Medical Regulator Under Fire After Doctor Who Demonized Jews, Praised Oct. 7 Allowed to Keep Treating Patients
Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan addresses the Activist Independent Movement’s Nakba77, Birmingham Demonstration for Palestine, outside the local BBC offices and studios in 2025. Photo: Screenshot
The United Kingdom’s top medical regulatory body is facing scrutiny for a recent decision to allow a doctor who on social media called for the ethnic cleaning of Jews and celebrated the terrorist group Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel to continue practicing medicine.
The General Medical Council (GMC) confirmed that it has re-referred the case of Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan, a trainee trauma and orthopedic surgeon, to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS). The move came just one day after the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), a British nongovernmental organization, earlier this week announced plans to challenge in court the GMC’s initial decision to let Aladwan continue practicing without restriction while under investigation.
In a statement, the GMC said it had referred Aladwan to “an interim orders tribunal,” adding that such referrals are made when an interim order “is necessary to protect the public or public confidence in doctors during an investigation.” The new hearing is scheduled for Oct. 23, according to The Guardian.
The controversy follows a Sept. 25 tribunal ruling that Aladwan’s conduct had not done anything to “undermine public confidence in the medical profession” and that her comments did not “amount to bullying or harassment.” The MPTS panel concluded that “a reasonable and fully informed member of the public would not be alarmed or concerned” by her being allowed to continue treating patients.
According to the CAA, Aladwan has repeatedly used social media to share her antisemitic ideology. Posts cited by the group and shared widely online include her description of the Royal Free Hospital in London as “a Jewish supremacy cesspit,” her claim that “over 90% of the world’s Jews are genocidal,” and her call to “globalize the intifada” in response to a report about a deadly terrorist attack on a Manchester synagogue.
She also wrote, “October 7. The day Israel was humiliated. Their supremacy shattered at the hands of the children they forced out of their homes. The children who watched foreign jews [sic] execute their loved ones, rape their land, and live on their stolen soil.”
Hamas-led Palestinian terrorists murdered 1,200 people, kidnapped 251 hostages, and perpetrated widespread sexual violence during their invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, which became the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust.
Despite such remarks, the September tribunal said Aladwan’s right to free expression under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights outweighed concerns about public safety. Her lawyers argued that she had exercised her legitimate political speech rights as a Palestinian opposing Israel, describing her as a “direct victim of genocide and dispossession” with an otherwise “impeccable clinical record.”
The CAA called the tribunal’s reasoning “extraordinary,” saying it was “inconceivable that a Jewish person would feel safe receiving treatment from this doctor.” After threatening a judicial review of the GMC’s handling of the case, the group welcomed the regulator’s reversal.
“Just one day after we notified the GMC of our intention to launch a legal challenge, the regulator is re-referring her case,” a CAA spokesperson said in a statement. “Why does it take the threat of legal action from us to get regulators in Britain to do their duty?”
Britain’s Health Secretary Wes Streeting also condemned the original ruling and announced plans to reform medical oversight procedures. He said he had no confidence in the GMC’s judgment and vowed to “root out the evil of racism” from the National Health Service.
“Sickening comments like these have no place in the NHS,” Streeting told The Times. “Action needs to be taken to make it easier to kick racists out of the NHS. The current regulatory system is completely failing to protect patients and staff.”
A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson told The Times that Streeting had ordered officials to draft new rules that would suspend doctors accused of racism or antisemitism while investigations are ongoing, calling it “ridiculous that racist medics are free to continue operating with impunity until a tribunal can be held.”
Streeting’s remarks prompted Aladwan’s legal representatives at Rahman Lowe Solicitors to accuse him of interfering with judicial independence. In a letter to the health secretary, they called his statements “an egregious breach of your duties as a minister to uphold the rule of law and also the independence of both the GMC and of judicial proceedings.”
CAA said it welcomed Streeting’s strong words but insisted that regulators must still act decisively. The organization also warned that Aladwan’s case is not unique, citing “myriad other medical cases” involving antisemitic conduct by health-care professionals.
In recent months, The Algemeiner has reported extensively on rising antisemitism within health-care settings across the UK and also the broader Western world, leaving Jewish patients feeling unsafe and marginalized.
“The Manchester terrorist attack took place in no small part because of a cataclysmic failure in enforcement by the authorities – from our streets to the professions,” CAA said in a statement. “It is evident to any reasonable person that this doctor is wholly unfit to practice medicine. Let us hope the system delivers the correct result this time.”
Aladwan’s posts have remained visible on X (formerly Twitter), where she wrote Wednesday that “a doctor can harm a British patient and get a hearing. Accuse a doctor of ‘anti-Semitism,’ and they’re gone. That’s the hierarchy. That’s Jewish supremacy. This is Britain.”
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Rep. Ilhan Omar says Stephen Miller’s comments on immigrants sound like how ‘Nazis described Jewish people’
Rep Ilhan Omar, Democrat of Minnesota, on Sunday likened the Trump administration’s immigration rhetoric to Nazi depictions of Jews.
“It reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany,” Omar said in an interview on CBS’s Face the Nation, commenting on a social media post by Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s senior adviser, in which he suggested that “migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.” Miller, who is Jewish, is the architect of the Trump administration’s immigration policy.
Omar called Miller’s comments “white supremist rhetoric” and also drew parallels between his characterization of migrants seeking refuge in the U.S. to how Jews were demonized and treated when they fled Nazi-era Germany. “As we know, there have been many immigrants who have tried to come to the United States who have turned back, you know, one of them being Jewish immigrants,” she said.
Now serving as Trump’s deputy chief of staff for policy, Miller is central to the White House’s plans for mass deportations and expanded barriers to asylum. During Trump’s first term, Miller led the implementation of the so-called Muslim travel ban in 2017, which barred entry to the U.S. for individuals from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen, and pushed to further reduce a longtime refugee program.
Rep. Ilhan Omar: “When I think about Stephen Miller and his white supremacist rhetoric, it reminds me of the way the Nazis described Jewish people in Germany.” pic.twitter.com/GAjIMqFq26
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 7, 2025
Miller’s comments echoed similar rhetoric by Trump after an Afghan refugee was accused of shooting two National Guard members near the White House last month, killing one.
Trump told reporters at a cabinet meeting last week that Somali immigrants are “garbage” and that he wanted them to be sent “back to where they came from.” The president also singled out Omar, a Somali native who represents Minnesota’s large Somali-American community. “She should be thrown the hell out of our country,” Trump said.
In the Sunday interview, Omar called Trump’s remarks “completely disgusting” and accused him of having “an unhealthy obsession” with her and the Somali community. “This kind of hateful rhetoric and this level of dehumanizing can lead to dangerous actions by people who listen to the president,” she said.
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Nigeria Seeks French Help to Combat Insecurity, Macron Says
French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France, Sept. 15, 2025. Photo: REUTERS/Benoit Tessier/Pool
Nigerian President Bola Tinubu has sought more help from France to fight widespread violence in the north of the country, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Sunday, weeks after the United States threatened to intervene to protect Nigeria’s Christians.
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, has witnessed an upsurge in attacks in volatile northern areas in the past month, including mass kidnappings from schools and a church.
US President Donald Trump has raised the prospect of possible military action in Nigeria, accusing it of mistreating Christians. The government says the allegations misrepresent a complex security situation in which armed groups target both faith groups.
Macron said he had a phone call with Tinubu on Sunday, where he conveyed France’s support to Nigeria as it grapples with several security challenges, “particularly the terrorist threat in the North.”
“At his request, we will strengthen our partnership with the authorities and our support for the affected populations. We call on all our partners to step up their engagement,” Macron said in a post on X.
Macron did not say what help would be offered by France, which has withdrawn its troops from West and Central Africa and plans to focus on training, intelligence sharing and responding to requests from countries for assistance.
Nigeria is grappling with a long-running Islamist insurgency in the northeast, armed kidnapping gangs in the northwest and deadly clashes between largely Muslim cattle herders and mostly Christian farmers in the central parts of the country, stretching its security forces.
Washington said last month that it was considering actions such as sanctions and Pentagon engagement on counterterrorism as part of a plan to compel Nigeria to better protect its Christian communities.
The Nigerian government has said it welcomes help to fight insecurity as long as its sovereignty is respected. France has previously supported efforts to curtail the actions of armed groups, the US has shared intelligence and sold arms, including fighter jets, and Britain has trained Nigerian troops.
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Netanyahu Says He Will Not Quit Politics if He Receives a Pardon
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu participates in the state memorial ceremony for the fallen of the Iron Swords War on Mount Herzl, Jerusalem on Oct. 16, 2025. Photo: Alex Kolomoisky/POOL/Pool via REUTERS
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday that he would not retire from politics if he receives a pardon from the country’s president in his years-long corruption trial.
Asked by a reporter if planned on retiring from political life if he receives a pardon, Netanyahu replied: “no”.
Netanyahu last month asked President Isaac Herzog for a pardon, with lawyers for the prime minister arguing that frequent court appearances were hindering Netanyahu’s ability to govern and that a pardon would be good for the country.
Pardons in Israel have typically been granted only after legal proceedings have concluded and the accused has been convicted. There is no precedent for issuing a pardon mid-trial.
Netanyahu has repeatedly denied wrongdoing in response to the charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust, and his lawyers have said that the prime minister still believes the legal proceedings, if concluded, would result in a complete acquittal.
US President Donald Trump wrote to Herzog, before Netanyahu made his request, urging the Israeli president to consider granting the prime minister a pardon.
Some Israeli opposition politicians have argued that any pardon should be conditional on Netanyahu retiring from politics and admitting guilt. Others have said the prime minister must first call national elections, which are due by October 2026.