UK Senior Doctors Justified Hamas Attack, Antisemitism Probe Finds

A recent investigation by the UK's Campaign Against Antisemitism, reported by The Telegraph, has uncovered that several senior doctors within the British healthcare system publicly supported the October 7th Hamas attacks and other antisemitic incidents. One of the doctors, Dr. Mohammed Saad Rashad, a senior ophthalmologist at Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals, shared posts on the day of the attack. These included an image of Hamas terrorists using paragliders with the caption "creativity" and heart emojis, a post stating "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" with the hashtag #AlAqsaFlood, and another claiming Israel killed its own people on October 7th to justify genocide. Dr. Rashad was later awarded "Educator of the Year" by a British Muslim organization in 2025. He told The Telegraph that he deeply regrets sharing posts without proper consideration, unequivocally rejects antisemitism and racism, does not support Hamas, and condemns terrorism and attacks on civilians. He added that he was profoundly shocked by the killing of Israeli civilians and the taking of hostages on October 7th, just as he was by the immense loss of civilian life and humanitarian suffering in Gaza.

In another instance, Dr. Shabina Sultan, a general rheumatologist at a hospital in Keighley, responded to a post about Israelis taken hostage from the Nova music festival by writing, "When people are under occupation, resistance is justified!". Dr. Jawad Azhar, a specialist in gastroenterology and emergency medicine at the Good Hope Hospital in Birmingham, appeared to justify an attack on the Heaton Park Synagogue last year, which resulted in two fatalities. He shared a video of a child expressing a desire for revenge for what was done to "our land" and asked if their children would accept a situation where their fathers were absent, like theirs. Dr. Azhar captioned this with, "This is how freedom fighters are born."