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30 October 2025

The ‘Anti-Semitism’ Witch-Hunt that Targets Rameh Aladwan is itself Anti-Semitic – Despite Having Been Found to Have No Case to Answer She is Being Tried Again

Dr Rahmeh’s Only Offence is  Being a Palestinian & Opposing the Genocide that Starmer & Streeting Have Enabled

IF you are JEWISH please sign the

Statement in Support of Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, the British-Palestinian Doctor Who is Being Persecuted by the General Medical Council and Wes Streeting

Link here

https://forms.gle/cnVMGb2ubD3edKY97


Video of the Arrest of Dr Rahmeh Aladwan

Last Tuesday, Dr Rahmeh Aladwan was arrested by the Metropolitan Police for three offences of making malicious communications and one offence of inciting racial hatred. What was the basis of these allegations? Well the Police officer arresting her told Rahmeh that on 21 July, at a demonstration outside the Foreign & Commonwealth Office she called for the eradication of the State of Israel.

Since when have calls for eradicating the genocidal and apartheid Israeli state been tantamount to inciting racial hatred or ‘anti-Semitism’? This could only be a possible offence if there is an inseparable link between Israeli Apartheid and British Jews. Clearly the numbskulls of the Metropolitan Police, especially their racist Commissioner Mark Rowley, have never heard of anti-Zionist Jews.

British police arrest doctor for opposing Gaza genocide, with Asa Winstanley

So a question to those who dreamt up these charges. Were calls to abolish the Nazi state an example of anti-German racism?  Or calls to abolish or eradicate the Apartheid South African State anti-White racism?  To merely ask the question is to answer it.

If anyone is being anti-Semitic it is the Metropolitan Police, who never lose an opportunity to link British Jews with Zionism’s genocide. It should never be forgotten that when Hitler was alive and kicking his disciples in the form of the British Union of Fascists were marching through the Jewish East End of London protected by the same Met Police who are now so concerned with ‘anti-Semitism’.

The Met are no more concerned about anti-Semitism than they are about any other form of racism. The Met are a cesspit of racism. They have repeatedly been found to be institutionally racist by the MacPherson Inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence and even by Thatcherite Baronness Louise Casey. Only in the past month Police at Charing Cross Police have been caught out up to their old tricks in a Panorama programme.

The sincerity of the Met can be gauged by the fact that they haven’t arrested a single Zionist for glorifying in and denying the genocide that Israel is carrying out in Gaza. If the government denies there is a genocide then why should the Met contradict them?

Although Rahmeh has been the target of the viciously racist pro-Israel lobby – the so-called Campaign Against Antisemitism and the equally poisonous UK Lawyers for Israel [UKLFI], it is the British state that has moved into action.  Jews for them are a convenient alibi and pretext. The attack on Palestine solidarity activists is because British foreign policy is joined at the hip with that of the United States and Israel.

It is important not to invert this and believe that the British state is acting on behalf of the Israeli state and its stooges like the Board of Deputies. British imperialism has always been pro-Zionist as has the United States.  Israel is their racist Rottweiler in the Middle East.

Dr Radwan’s treatment has been disgraceful, even by British standards. In effect, having been found not guilty at her first hearing that despicable apology for a human being, the corrupt Wes Streeting demanded a rehearing of the charges. See here.

A Google search produces this entry yet the page can't be found

Dr Radwan was first referred to a hearing of the Medical Practitioner Tribunal Service by the General Medical Council [GMC] on 27 August. At the hearing on 25 September the GMC asked for conditions to be placed on Dr Radwan’s practice and the MPTS refused. She was found to have no case to answer. It appears that this decision has been scrubbed from the Internet. Although it appears in a Google search the page itself has disappeared. The Tribunal found that

·         There was no evidence that patient safety had been put at risk.

·         The GMC’s concerns arose solely from political statements, not from Dr Aladwan’s clinical practice, which remains unblemished.

·         A “reasonable and fully informed member of the public” would not be alarmed to learn that she continued unrestricted practice while the investigation proceeds.

In Place of the Missing Page

There was a fierce backlash from Streeting, who only held his seat in Ilford North by 500 votes, against the British Palestinian Leanne Mohammed. On 6 October Streeting was quoted in The Times as calling for medical institutions to ‘crack down on antisemitism’.

The issue was posed in terms of the danger to Jewish patients. Streeting warned that hospitals and medical institutions are “completely failing to protect Jewish patients”. The fact that these lies are carried without comment demonstrates the lengths the British press is willing to go to support Israel. There isn’t one verifiable example of a doctor with Palestinian sympathies injuring or failing to care for someone who is Jewish. Not one example.

However the treatment of Black and Muslim people in the NHS is a different matter. A third of Black and Ethnic Minority staff face racist abuse at work. Not that you would know from Streeting’s comments. His only concern are for a section of White people.  His allegations are completely unevidenced but were nonetheless seized upon by the Tory press.

The first ten NHS doctors to die of COVID were predominantly Muslim and from either a Black, Asian or Arabic background. Black and minority ethnic people are 40 percent more likely to access mental health services via the criminal justice system than white people. But this kind of racism is not something that Streeting, The Times or Telegraph is concerned with.

After a campaign by the Israel funded, so-called Campaign Against Antisemitism [CAA] (which is really a Campaign Against the Palestinians) the GMC rereferred Dr Aladwan’s case back to the MPTS on 3 October.  A hearing of the MPTS was held on 23 October and the MPTS agreed to hear the case again although it had already dismissed it previously.

At the second hearing on 23 Oct the GMC asked for the suspension of Dr Aladwan and the inclusion of all material from first hearing, which the MPTS agreed to. This is going to go ahead to a 3 day hearing date on a date yet to be confirmed. The GMC even want to add material they had before the first hearing but didn't submit. The video below and also this tweet explains the whole of this torturous attempt at the crucifixion of Dr Aladwan.

Dr Rahmeh Aladwan's Instagram Post Explaining the Background to her Case Before the MPTS

One factor in all of this has been the supine behaviour of the GMC which has  done its best to persecute Dr Aladwan.  Yet when it comes to genuine anti-Semitism from Zionists it behaves entirely differently. On 21 January 2024 I received a message from a Justin Stebbing which read:

At first I thought it was either from a neo-Nazi or a lunatic or both.  I wasn’t far wrong.  He is a lunatic Zionist. Justin Stebbing is a visiting professor at Imperial College and he is still listed on their website.

It is interesting to contrast the witch-hunt against Dr Aladwan, who hasn’t made any remotely similar comments with that of Stebbing. Imperial College in the form of HR Director, Harbhajan Brar, refused to do anything. I complained to the Met Police who were also reluctant to do anything. Eventually Sussex Police referred a complaint to the Crown Prosecution Service who also refused to do anything.  The Police Officer in the case informed me that the CPS had concluded that

a jury would be unlikely to conclude that he meant what he said literally, based on the surrounding circumstances, so there was no realistic prospect of conviction if the matter went to court.

Stebbing claimed that his remarks were ironic and he hadn’t meant them. There was nothing ironic about them. Sending someone Jewish an email out of the blue (because I’d never had contact with this reptile before) saying that all Jews should be gassed is clearly malicious as per the Malicious Communications Act under which Dr Radwan has been arrested. But of course the CPS is a highly political animal and it knows better than to prosecute a prominent Zionist.

I also complained to the GMC. Given their hyper activity in Dr Radwan’s case one might suppose that they would have been eager to suspend Stebbing. It was not as if he didn’t have form. In December 2021 he was suspended by the MPTS for nine months.

Stebbing was guilty of a “cavalier” approach in the way he treated some patients. This including sending “inappropriate” emails to a dying patient he nicknamed LMT (Little Miss Trouble). It would seem that I wasn’t the first victim of Stebbing.

But in my case the GMC exonerated him without even a reprimand. Stebbing was defended by UKLFI and by the CAA.  So what we have are the two most prominent Zionist organisations involved in making false ‘anti-Semitism’ allegations against Palestinian supporters defending someone guilty of making vile anti-Semitic comments about gassing Jews. This is par for the course with Zionists. They have never had any objection to genuine anti-Semitism, only anti-Zionism.

In the process the CAA/UKLFI alleged that I had been found guilty of being a ‘notorious anti-Semite’ myself when I made an unsuccessful libel claim against the CAA. However even the GMC was aware that in libel a defence of honest opinion merely finds the libel hasn’t been proven, not that it was correct. This in itself is an indication of the dishonesty of these Zionist organisations. The GMC nonetheless found that

Yet despite this finding the GMC declined to apply any penalty. The contrast with Dr Radwan, who has made no offensive remarks to anyone Jewish, even if some of her comments regarding ‘Jewish supremacy’ may be over the top, is astonishing. It is as clear a case of double standards as one could hope to find.


The justification for not imposing a warning on Stebbing is equally astonishing:

The double standards are self-evident. Criticism of Israel and Zionism is a hanging offence. Telling someone Jewish that all Jews should have been gassed is something that can be treated leniently. Incidentally the blacked out portions of the decision almost certainly relate to Stebbing’s previous striking off from the register which suggest that such an emotionally charged man is certainly not someone who should be near patients.  Again in contrast to Dr Aladwan who has handled herself with great aplomb and poise.

The full GMC decision can be downloaded here.

It is clear from the behaviour of the Police, CPS, GMC and Imperial College that when it comes to genuine anti-Semitism from Zionists and supporters of Israel, then the traditional defences go up.  Accusations of false anti-Semitism when made in support of Genocide in Palestine are, by contrast, treated seriously.

The lesson to draw from this is that the purported concern over anti-Semitism by the Met Police and the State in this and other cases is entirely spurious. Likewise the defence of Stebbing by the CAA and UKLFI demonstrates that these organisations are only interested in ‘anti-Semitism’ when defence of Israel is on the agenda.

This should also be a lesson to those in the Palestine solidarity movement who believe that the British state is genuinely concerned with anti-Semitism. It is the same with Donald Trump in the United States whose racism is a matter of record. But when it comes to ‘anti-Semitism’ and the ‘plight’ of Zionist Jewish students on campus Trump was so concerned that he threatened universities with defunding unless they fell into line and policed discourse on campus, in particular courses covering the Middle East.

Just as an addendum.  Rahmeh has attributed support for Israel amongst British Jews to ‘Jewish Supremacism’.  I think this is wrong. The reasons why British Jews have tended to support Israel are complex but racial superiority is confined to a minority of Zionist zealots such as Jonathan Hoffman.

The Jewish community in Britain has moved decisively to the right since 1945 when half the vote for Phil Piratin, the Communist candidate in the Mile End constituency in the East End, resulted in the first Jewish Communist MP.

In 1979 when both a Communist and a National Front candidate stood in Hackney North at the General Election, Professor Geoffrey Alderman could not discern a single Jewish vote for the Communist but estimated that a few hundred Jews voted for the holocaust denying National Front.

Zionism as a settler colonial and imperialist ideology is clearly attractive to those on the right. Coupled with its sense of victimhood arising out of the weaponisation of the holocaust, British Jews have been complicit in enabling Starmer and Lammy to support Israel’s genocide. However it would be wrong to ascribe the support of the British state to either the Zionist lobby or British Jews. The latter are the State’s moral alibi. It is not why the British state supports Israel.

Notwithstanding the above it is incumbent upon anti-Zionist Jews to give their full support to Rahmeh in her battles with the Medical Establishment and the Metropolitan Police. She is being attacked, not because of anti-Semitism but because she is a supporter of the Palestinians.

Tony Greenstein

11 March 2024

How did Brighton Women’s Centre Celebrate International Women’s Day?

By Banning Parents for Palestine after Zionist objections. Presumably the Death of 25,000 women & children in Gaza isn’t enough


Genocide in Gaza through the eyes of Israeli soldiers

On 5 November 2023 Anita Patel wrote a guest blog Women’s Place UK : Whitewashing Zionism. Anita wrote, in reference to their statement of 28th October “Israel & Palestine – Peace, Equality, Freedom, Justice”, that it was:

an evasive and impossible fudge, between advocates of apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide on the one hand, and a people who are fighting for their survival on the other.  The statement frames the attack on Gaza as a conflict between two equivalent hostile parties, failing to distinguish the oppressor and the oppressed, and making the same demands of both those parties, on the grounds that all the women involved share the same experience of war.  It is as though Israeli women were not part of the oppressor and Palestinian women were not part of the oppressed people.

Brighton Women's Centre

BWC has provided a good example of how this statement has been interpreted by radical and liberal/bourgeois feminists when they banned Parents for Palestine from having a stall at their celebrations in Brighton Dome.

I understand that it was Zionist Lobby group, UK Lawyers for Israel, which in December 2019, brought the far-right settler NGO Regavim to Britain, that objected. As Israel’s +972 Magazine wrote Why are British Jews opening their doors to far-right settler groups?

Daniel Berke - LFI and Tommy Robinson's solicitor

UKLFI  is a far-right Zionist organisation. Listed among its Directors is Daniel Berke, lawyer for Tommy Robinson. As the film below makes clear he is politically close to Robinson. Berke was also the solicitor for Jonathan Hoffman, the link person between British fascists and far-right Zionists.

Regavim was founded in 2006 by Bezalel Smotrich, the then leader of the far-right National Union party. Smotrich calls himself a “proud homophobe” and is an open fascist. Today Smotrich is Israel’s Finance Minister and the Gauleiter of the West Bank.

In February this Judeo-Nazi called for the ‘wiping out’ of the Palestinian  town of Huwara where the settlers had staged a pogrom.

Others involved in alleging ‘anti-Semitism’ and support for Hamas were Sussex Friends of Israel and its alter-ego the Sussex Representative Council.

I have written before on the theme of Zionist Feminism in articles such as

Ahed Tamimi Exposes the Refusal of Western Feminism to Come to Terms with Zionism and Imperialism and

How Identity Politics Turned the Victims of Sabra & Chatilla into the Antisemitic Oppressors of Zionist Feminists - A Reply to Erica Burman

BWC not only refused to talk to P4P about the allegations, they refused to disclose who had made the allegations or what they were. Instead they just went ahead and cancelled P4P’s stall.

This is the kind of ‘justice’ that Palestinians receive in the West Bank where you can be detained without trial (Administrative Detention) without knowing who has made the allegations or what those allegations are. So well done BWC. You are certainly good Zionists.

What BWC did was to cave in to the supporters of genocide in Gaza taking their side. BWC has always been a nest of right-wing radical and Zionist feminism and so it’s no surprise that they were happy to cover for the supporters of Israel.

When I was Secretary of the local Anti-Nazi League 40 years ago I wrote to them suggesting that we work together in combating the National Front which was active in Brighton at that time. Their response was that since fascists and anti-fascists were men they were going to abstain!

In practice BWC has been abstaining from the fight against racism and fascism ever since. Now they have taken it a step further and openly declared their sympathies with those who are perpetrating genocide in Gaza.


Little Boy Describing the Execution of his Parents

According to the UN’s Office of  Human Rights

Palestinian women and girls have reportedly been arbitrarily executed in Gaza, often together with family members, including their children, according to information received. “We are shocked by reports of the deliberate targeting and extrajudicial killing of Palestinian women and children in places where they sought refuge, or while fleeing. Some of them were reportedly holding white pieces of cloth when they were killed by the Israeli army or affiliated forces,” the experts said.

The experts expressed serious concern about the arbitrary detention of hundreds of Palestinian women and girls, including human rights defenders, journalists and humanitarian workers, in Gaza and the West Bank since 7 October. Many have reportedly been subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment, denied menstruation pads, food and medicine, and severely beaten. On at least one occasion, Palestinian women detained in Gaza were allegedly kept in a cage in the rain and cold, without food.

The Guardian reported on 22 February that there was evidence of at least two cases of rape of Palestinian women captives, alongside other cases of sexual humiliation and threats of rape. Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur on violence against women and girls, said the true extent of sexual violence could be significantly higher.

In 2020 Save the Children reported that:

Palestinian children in the Israel military detention system face physical and emotional abuse, with four out of five (86%) of them being beaten, and 69% strip-searched, according to new research by Save the Children. Nearly half (42%) are injured at the point of arrest, including gunshot wounds and broken bones. Some report violence of a sexual nature and some are transferred to court or between detention centres in small cages, the child rights organisation said. 

Palestinian women and children are also being starved to death by Israel.  Reports of sexual abuse and violence against women by Israeli soldiers are rife, which is not surprising since the Chief Military Rabbi of Israel, Eyal Karim has ruled that rape is permitted in war.


The haunted face of a 10 year old who died of starvation

In answer to a question on the religious website Kipa when asked if soldiers were permitted to rape women during war. Karim replied that, as part of maintaining fitness for the army and the soldiers' morale during fighting, it is permitted to

"breach" the walls of modesty and "satisfy the evil inclination by lying with attractive Gentile women against their will, out of consideration for the difficulties faced by the soldiers and for overall success."

It is no surprise that the sisters of BWC have, given the choice, chosen to side with those who have forced Palestinian women to have caesarean sections without anaesthetic, who are deprived of basics hygiene such as sanitary towels, wipes and above all, of food. To these racist harridans, Palestinian women are lesser human beings compared to their White counterparts.

The fact that BWC lied when it said in a statement that it had offered to speak to P4P when it hadn’t and then accepted the allegations from the Zionists at face value demonstrates beyond doubt where their sympathies lie.

The Zionist Apologists for Rape & Violence Against Women

Radical feminism has always given cover to imperialism, be it in Ireland or Palestine so we shouldn’t be surprised. The darlings of American feminists – Betty Friedan, Letty Pogrebin and Andrea Dworkin – were all Zionists. American feminism has until recently, and under the pressure of Black Lives Matter and third world women, been a bastion of support for imperialist ventures.  For example Susan Nossel. former head of Amnesty USA justified the Afghan war with feminist arguments.

Feminism as a western movement has, by its very nature, viewed society as primarily divided into men and women. Race and class has been largely absent from Western feminist narratives and it is no accident that the racist trollops of Brighton Women Centre have come to dominate the women’s movement and feminism.

Western feminists such as Betty Friedan fought hard against Palestinian demands for liberation and in practice what was called second wave  feminism ended up in the right-wing feminism of the ‘Blair babes’ who voted overwhelmingly in Parliament for the Iraq War in 2003.

The election of 100 Labour Women MPs in 1997 resulted in a situation where 25% of women MPs (mostly old-style socialists like Alice Mahon) voted against the war compared to 40% of male MPs. So much for the sexist idea that women are more peaceful.

In more recent years it has been female Zionist  MPs such as Margaret Hodge, Louise Ellman, Luciana Berger and Ruth Smeeth who led the ‘anti-Semitism’ fight against Jeremy Corbyn and the left in the Labour Party.

The Zionist counter-picket

This is why on Saturday March 9 we held a silent picket of the IWT celebrations at the Dome. Opposite us were a group of Zionist women chanting ‘Rape is not Resistance’.  Their message was that the break-out from Gaza on October 7 had been an orgy of rape.

Dabke at Womens Day Celebrations

Allegations of systematic rape have been the main narrative of the Israeli state in order to demonise Hamas and justify its genocide in Gaza. BWC has gone along with this false narrative. It has been comprehensively debunked.

Palestine Solidarity Lobby

However allegations of rape have always been the stock-in-trade of racists and imperialists against indigenous people from Southern Africa ‘the black peril’ to the lynch mobs of the Deep South. Indeed allegations of rape and sexual assault were common to Nazi propaganda against German Jews. So it’s no surprise that Brighton Womens Centre has adopted this narrative.


On Saturday March 8th Palestine solidarity activists and other anti-racists therefore held a silent demonstration outside the Dome. Opposite us was a small band of Zionists chanting ‘rape is not resistance’ thereby playing into this deeply racist trope.

Ironically when a woman went up to them to say that she was a victim of rape and she found their demonstration upsetting and disturbing a male Zionist told her that she should be raped again.   It was reported to the Police but the man in question was protected by the Zionist women thus demonstrating that their concern was not rape but support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

The  2 men suspected of telling a woman she should be raped again

People may wish to consider whether a demonstration should be held outside BWC to highlight their complicity in support for genocide but in the meantime you might wish to contact these racists feminists at admin@womenscentre.org.uk.

There was an interesting discussion on Mumsnet in the Feminism thread on BWC’s cancellation of P4P’s stall.

Brighton Women’s Centre cancelled a stall celebrating Palestinian women for #IWD

Fortitudinal · 09/03/2024 12:06

What the fuck? Brighton Women’s Centre and the Dome cancelled this stall at the last minute. How can they possibly justify this? It’s heartbreaking.

Brighton Women’s Centre is a captured male-including organisation now anyway. A long way from its fantastic beginnings as a truly feminist space.

Cynical, corporate-controlled bullshit.

TodayIsNotMyDay · 09/03/2024 14:38

White / Imperial feminism strikes again.

The ”we stand for ALL women” has always been bullshit, but it has been a true mask off during this genocide.

WhereAreWeNow · 09/03/2024 17:41

What reason did they give? That seems really weird.

fakeprofile · 09/03/2024 17:42

What is going on in Brighton?? The blatant misogyny on display in recent years has been shocking

Fortitudinal · 09/03/2024 18:26

I know. I don’t know if they gave any reasoning at all. I suppose in a cowardly bid to avoid anything ‘controversial’ with regards to Israel/Gaza?

It’s fucked up.

TodayIsNotMyDay · Yesterday 12:59

It’s fucked up.

It truly is.

How can someone keep a straight face and claim to support women if they don’t support all women?

The women and girls are going through the worst anyone possibly could*.

I think this IWD has turned into Valentine’s Day #2, it’s mostly just another day to buy stuff and some chant about being strong woman, without any actual substance.

 (*I do not mean to make this into a competition who has it worst)

ssd · Yesterday 13:09

That is really not on.

And that is right. What Brighton Women’s Centre has done is really not on.

Tony Greenstein