CAA submits complaint to GMC over Dr Rameh Aladwan’s social media rhetoric

Campaign Against Antisemitism has submitted a complaint to the General Medical Council (GMC) regarding social media posts on a doctor’s account.

Dr Rameh Aladwan rose to prominence and notoriety following an article in the Daily Mail, in which she was exposed for a number of posts published on her social media account.

Below is just a selection of the posts that were referenced in the complaint:

• Responding to another user’s post regarding the GMC, a post, which was published on 25th April, read: “Hey @gmcuk, the world sees you kneeling before your Jewish supremacist masters and the ‘Israeli’ lobby. This is a betrayal of your doctors. Stand with them – not with supremacy, genocide and apartheid.”
• Another post, published on 29th April, read: “I will never condemn the 7th of October.”
• A post, published on 5th July, partially read: “Britain is totally occupied by Jewish supremacy.”
• Another post, which was published on 6th July, read: “Let’s make this crystal clear: anti-Zionism means ‘Israel’ has no right to exist. No debates. No exceptions. ‘Israel’ is genocide. Its supporters are genocidal—and that includes over 90% of Jews on earth.”
• Addressing the Chief Rabbi, a post, published on 6th July, read: “Why do you lie so much Rabbi genocide? Palestinians are Semites, and you support our mass murder you criminal.”
• Another post, published on 13th July, read, “Calling them Zionists instead of Jewish supremacists only helps the mass murder continue,” and “If Jews want to be seen as separate from this horror, they need to stop perpetrating it. Until then, the world sees what they are doing, and no amount of deflection, rebranding, or moral posturing will change that.”
• One post, published on 13th July, read in part: “Jews can deny it all they like but at some point you will have to accept that Jewish supremacy is what is murdering us.”
• Responding to another user, a post was published on 30th July which partially read: “The Royal Free Hospital in London is a Jewish supremacy cesspit.”

Other posts can be found here.

According to the International Definition of Antisemitism, “Making mendacious or stereotypical allegations about Jews as such or the power of Jews as collective, such as the myth of Jews controlling the media, economy, government or other societal institutions,” and “Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g. by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavour,” are examples of antisemitism.

Dr Aladwan rose to prominence and notoriety earlier this year as some of her earlier rhetoric was revealed.

Among the alleged posts were:

• In a reel entitled ‘Resist’, alongside an upside-down red triangle icon, she wrote: “We never condemn the Palestinians. We back their struggle, including armed struggle.” In recent months, the inverted red triangle and its emoji variant have been used by some anti-Israel activists to signal support for proscribed terrorist organisations such as Hamas, inspired by the appearance of the symbol in Hamas propaganda videos to indicate targets for attack.
• Captioning a photo of a Hamas gunman: “A picture of AlQassam a day keeps the Z’s [Zionists] locked away.”
• In reference to the antisemitic Amsterdam pogrom of November last year, she posted a hand-drawn graph with the words “f*** around” along one axis, and “find out” along the other. The caption reads: “You provoke. You pushed. You prodded. You play victim. You deserve to pay. You parasitic pariah. Settlers should feel welcome nowhere. And if they tried that crap in the UK, they’ll be met with resistance too. Seems justice is found on the streets.”

Since then, her rhetoric has escalated.

A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “These posts would be appalling from anyone, let alone a doctor. Healthcare professionals have a duty of care to ensure that all patients are looked after and treated equally, regardless of their background. Dr Rahmeh Aladwan’s deranged social media rhetoric represents a danger to Jewish people and unquestionably brings the medical profession into disrepute. An individual who expresses views like these has no place in medicine. The GMC must urgently suspend Dr Aladwan and open an investigation. Such contemptible conduct is incompatible with the values that we rightly expect of our doctors and nurses.”