Calling for the GMC to reinstate Dr Rehiana Ali to the Medical Register

Petition calling for the GMC to reinstate Dr Ali to the Medical Register

Dr Rehiana Ali BA MB BChir (Cantab) MA MRCP PhD is a Consultant Neurologist with over 20 years’ experience in the NHS. Her qualifications, expertise and impeccable record of service are a credit to her as a person and a great benefit to her patients, to the NHS, and indeed to our nation. Horrified by the genocide in Gaza, Dr Ali stood as an independent candidate in the parliamentary elections in July 2024, securing 10.1% of the votes, despite the suddenness of the election, which left only 5 weeks to campaign. Dr Ali stood on a wide-ranging manifesto related to domestic issues - including proper funding of the NHS and protection of free speech - but which also included a call for an immediate end to the collective punishment and extermination of the people of Gaza.

On 20^th December 2024 Dr Ali was given an 18-month suspension by the General Medical Council/ MPTS, a judgement delivered without proper process or investigation. Was Dr Ali’s suspension related to complaints from patients or from members of the public? Certainly not. This draconian and particularly punitive suspension was imposed following an ongoing campaign of harassment by a range of Jewish organisations and Israeli pressure groups who have been targeting Dr Ali for her principled stand in opposition to one of the most unspeakable evils of our time. To its credit, three of their previous “complaints” were dismissed by the GMC. The organisations in question include the UK Jewish Medical Association (JMA), UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), the Community Security Trust (CST) and GnasherJew. There has been a corresponding coordinated attack on Dr Ali in the Jewish media including Jewish News, the Jewish Chronicle, the Jerusalem Post, with back-up from Jewish/ pro-Israel journalists at the Daily Telegraph, as well as political interference from the Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, who is himself seriously compromised by having received funding from the Israeli lobby.

Needless to say UKLFI and Gnasherjew are lobby groups which exist to further the interests of a foreign power, and to target anyone who questions or criticises the Israeli regime, or the behaviour of Jews in the Holy Land, and extremist Jews and their supporters here in the UK. It beggars belief that the GMC is kow-towing to the malicious demands of these groups, rather than protecting the rights of UK doctors and responding to the concerns of UK patients. The very idea that Jewish or Israeli organisations can arm-twist prestigious organisations like the GMC in order to prevent someone like Dr Ali from practising is a cause of gravest concern. This abuse of the complaints system is absolutely intolerable, demonstrating the extent to which Jewish privilege is allowed to dictate who is and who is not allowed to practise as a doctor here in the UK. This must be opposed by all right-thinking people. The targeting of Dr Ali is the opposite of justice, and is, quite frankly, known more commonly as lawfare.

Since the unlawful suspension, Jewish groups and individuals have been celebrating their “success” on social media and have been issuing Dr Ali with threats.

This Petition has been created to call for the immediate re-instatement of Dr Ali. It also calls for a commitment from the GMC that it will uphold its mission to promote and protect the interests of doctors and patients, and not indulge the malicious and vengeful tactics of groups and indeed individuals who wish to silence and persecute NHS doctors and staff and other public servants. In an age of social media it is perfectly legitimate for – one might say incumbent upon – people to exercise their inalienable right to express publicly their views on any matter of interest, and in this case their revulsion at a genocide, and the ongoing persecution of the Palestinian people.