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 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."
Aladwan's statements
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.”
She has repeatedly called for Israel to be wiped out, posting “If and when Palestinians win – there will be no ‘Israel’” on August 31 and on August 27, “Am Yisrael lie. Soon...Am Yisrael bye. Then, Am Yisrael die. Finally, Am Yisrael cry, cry, cry.”
According to her, “there is no ‘antisemitism’” as Jews are “oppressors and colonizers!!” “Most synagogues, Jewish organizations, agencies, institutions, and communities are Zionist. Jewish schools teach manifest destiny. Jews are not the victims of a Jewish genocidal colonial occupation,” she added.
Additionally, she repeatedly tweets her support for Hamas and its October 7 massacre.
On August 30 she tweeted “Glory to the Palestinian armed resistance, the bravest men on earth.” On July 23 she wrote, “I don’t condemn Hamas. I don’t condemn October 7. I don’t condemn armed resistance to occupation,” and on July 8 denied Hamas’s use of sexual violence on October 7:
“The number of proven rapes on October 7 is ZERO. What has been proven, however, is the systematic sexual violence against Palestinian men, women, and children – including rape and sodomy to the point of literal death – committed by ‘Israeli’ Jews.”