A British watchdog group has published an online resource that it says exposes about 40 medical professionals in the UK's National Health Service for using public social media accounts to spread antisemitic rhetoric, promote conspiracy theories and celebrate violence against civilians.
The resource appears on the website of GnasherJew, a team of Jewish online investigators who track and report antisemitism, Holocaust denial and extremism. Its page on antisemitic healthcare professionals says the group has exposed doctors and other medical staff over several years for posting antisemitic content, backing terrorism and discriminating against Jewish people. The dossiers cover practicing doctors, consultants, surgeons and therapists.
One case concerns Dr. Mazin Fageir, a senior trauma and orthopedic surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital in London. According to GnasherJew, screenshots show he shared a cartoon on X showing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wearing an armband with a Star of David and pushing a coffin draped in a Palestinian flag into an Auschwitz oven, beneath the words "ARBEIT MACHT FREI". In May 2021, during the conflict known as Operation Guardian of the Walls, he reportedly replied to a post about a rocket hitting a civilian home in Givatayim by writing, "May you live under rocket fire forever, amen." He added that Israeli citizens would be "wiped out one day."
Another dossier covers Dr. Nizar Ali Mhani, an NHS consultant orthodontist and honorary clinical lecturer at Cardiff University. After the October 7 attacks, he reportedly posted material likening Hamas to the Jewish fighters of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, asking whether anyone would suggest that those fighters used civilians as human shields because they relied on bunkers and tunnels.
A third case involves Dr. Asaad Nemer Shamallakh, an anesthetist in the Swansea Bay University Health Board area. On October 8, 2023, he wrote on Facebook about relatives, including his uncle and several women and children, who he said died in a missile strike. He wrote that the loss had ignited a fire in "our souls that will not calm down until we are victorious, take revenge, and regain our freedom and our homeland." The same day he reportedly shared a graphic captioned "Look.. watch.. what does the Palestinian do."
GnasherJew says the dossiers also show wider patterns, including 9/11 conspiracy theories, Holocaust inversion and open rejection of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism.
In a statement to The Jerusalem Post, the group said the General Medical Council had taken "little to no action" on its reports and that the regulator's reported 19% action rate in antisemitism cases was no reassurance. It said no action appeared to have been taken in the cases of Mhani, Fageir and Shamallakh, and accused the GMC of "playing Russian Roulette" with the safety of Jewish patients.
A GMC spokesperson said antisemitism is "completely unacceptable" and that the regulator can and will investigate serious concerns. About 19.5% of doctors subject to antisemitism complaints have faced regulatory action, the spokesperson said, including two erased from the medical register, one suspended and two warned. A Royal Free London spokesperson said the trust expects everyone who works there to ensure that anything they publish online is consistent with its values and standards.
The report comes amid growing scrutiny of alleged antisemitism in British healthcare. The Campaign Against Antisemitism recently released a documentary, Malignant: Antisemitism in the NHS, featuring accounts from Jewish patients and staff. Polling released with it found that more than four in ten British Jews who have used NHS services since October 7, 2023, took steps to hide their Jewish identity.
The Post contacted the General Dental Council, while Swansea Bay University Health Board did not respond to its request for comment by publication time. Inquiries sent to NHS trust press offices and regulators, for forwarding to the named clinicians, also drew no response.