I wouldn’t want to be a Jewish patient in the NHS right now, would you? After all, 10 per cent of all doctors are Muslims and the total staff who follow Islam (nurses, administrators, etc) is around 50,000.
I may be overdramatic, but what would stop a doctor from deliberately misdiagnosing the illness of a Jew, or even worse, actually not cutting out a cancer? Or, if you were on the bureaucratic side of the NHS, ‘’accidentally’’ fail to send out a breast screening letter?
You think I’ve gone mad?
Well, I reckon Health Secretary Wes Streeting, in his quiet moments, would agree with my fears. He is so worried for Jewish patients that he gave an interview to The Times yesterday, saying medical institutions are "failing to protect Jewish patients" from a wave of racist and antisemitic comments from NHS doctors.
How incredible is that? A Cabinet minister forced to protect a minority from a medical profession which is supposed to be looking after them. I’m certain as I can be that this has never happened before and is a stain on the Muslim religion.
To give Streeting his credit (and I never say that about Labour ministers), he has come out fighting against the General Medical Council and the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service after being appalled by cases in which doctors have escaped disciplinary action after making straightforward anti-Jewish remarks.
Take this story. Two weeks Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, a trainee surgeon, was handed flowers and greeted by a crowd of activists waving Palestinian flags when she left a medical tribunal in Manchester after being ruled fit to continue practising over her social media posts, including describing the Royal Free Hospital in London as a ‘’Jewish supremacy cesspit’’.
Further, she has called for Britain to be freed from ‘’Jewish supremacy". In one post, she shared an image of Britain’s chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis, with the words ‘’rabbi genocide’’ emblazoned across his head.
I've run the numbers. You do not want to be a Jewish patient inside the NHS right now - Kelvin MacKenzie
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The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service ruled no suspension was necessary, arguing her comments would not ‘’concern or alarm’’ the public. That’s tosh. What about the 250,000 Jews in the UK? They would be petrified.
There have been nearly 500 complaints of antisemitism relating to 123 doctors submitted to the General Medical Council since the Hamas attack on October 7. Of these, 84 per cent were closed at the triage stage.
The rare cases where complaints have led to disciplinary action include that of Dr Manjo Sen, an NHS surgeon.
Last month, he was struck off for making a series of antisemitic social media comments, including referring to a Jewish man as ‘’circumcised vermin’’.
The doctor, who was working as a surgeon at Northwick Park hospital, London, commented after the Oct 7 attacks by using the word untermenschen – German for subhuman - about the Jewish victims.
Streeting is now preparing to overhaul the medical regulators, and that must mean no Muslims sitting in judgment in these antisemitic cases.
While there are 10 per cent Islamic doctors in the NHS, there are only one per cent Jewish doctors. I don’t imagine there is outright war between the two sides (although I suspect that could be possible), but I would be fascinated to know how much co-operation exists.
And what happens when a prized opportunity comes up at the hospital? Does it go to the best person, or does it go to the appointment which causes the least problem?
You may believe that I am over-egging the situation. Can I direct you to a piece written by the columnist Matthew Syed in the Sunday Times, who went to a Palestine Action demonstration in Trafalgar Square on Saturday?
He spoke to two dozen demonstrators, and with the exception of two, it was clear to him that they had one thing in common. A deep hatred of Jews.
As I said at the beginning of this piece, you wouldn’t want to be a Jewish patient using the NHS right now.
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