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| UK minister: Health service ‘failing to protect Jewish patients from racist doctors’ |
| 2025-10-07 |
Canary in the coal mine stuff: anyone likely to neglect or harm patients because they are Jews is likely to do the same to Christians, or even Caucasians. [IsraelTimes] British Health Minister Wes Streeting says that the UK National Health Service (NHS) is “completely failing to protect Jewish patients” amid a rising wave of antisemitism from medical staff.“Two years on from the horrific events of October 7th and just days after a despicable attack on our nation’s Jewish community, we must be unequivocal that antisemitism has absolutely no place in our NHS, or anywhere in our society,” Streeting tells London’s The Times, referring to the deadly terror attack at a Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur. Campaigners have long warned of spiking antisemitism within the British health service, which they say leaves Jewish patients unsafe. Streeting also tells The Times he will overhaul the General Medical Council (GMC) and Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) after a number of cases in which medical professionals went unpunished for antisemitism. “The NHS is a universal health service, which means that everyone, regardless of race, religion or creed, should feel safe seeking its care. I deplore the fact that this is frankly not the current reality for many Jewish patients and staff, and I am determined to change this for once and for all,” Streeting says. “It should go without saying that doctors making racist comments about Jewish people is abhorrent and demands action. Yet all too often, appropriate action by regulators has been sorely lacking,” he says. The comments by Streeting came two weeks after the latest incident in which a medic wasn’t suspended over antisemitic comments. Dr Rahmeh Aladwan was investigated and then cleared of wrongdoing over social media posts, including one saying that Israelis are “worse” than the Nazis, and claiming that the “Royal Free Hospital in London is a Jewish supremacy cesspit.” The Times says that since she escaped suspension, “Aladwan has posted incessantly about Jews and Israel.” According to figures obtained by the Jewish News and cited by The Times, nearly 500 complaints of antisemitism relating to 123 doctors have been submitted to the GMC since October 7, 2023. Of these, 84 per cent were closed at the triage stage, according to the data. |
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