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Dr Rahmeh Aladwan arrested at her home after her public support of Palestine

British Palestinian Dr Rahmeh Aladwan was arrested from her home at 7.30am on Tuesday 21 October after a ‘two-year long coordinated assault campaign”, including death threats, by the UK Zionist lobby for daring to stand up against Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people:

Government overreach

Israel-funded Health Secretary Wes Streeting has backed the campaign against Dr Aladwan and other pro-Palestinian medics, claiming that their criticism of Israel’s genocide and the UK’s collusion is ‘antisemitism’ and planning changes to legislation to effectively allow their suspension without trial or process.

So extensive and self-evident was Streeting’s involvement that the British Medical Journal wrote:

UK ministers are reportedly drawing up plans to change the law to make it easier to suspend doctors accused of misconduct from practising while they are under investigation.

The move has been prompted by the health secretary, Wes Streeting, being dissatisfied with the handling of the case of a British-Palestinian doctor, Rahmeh Aladwan, who is currently under investigation by the General Medical Council (GMC) over allegations of antisemitic remarks. Streeting is also reported to be planning to legislate for a new duty on NHS staff that would specifically prohibit them from making “racist” statements.

The fact that Streeting’s interference is so brazen is a disgrace. The government has no business interfering in wrong-headed arbitration over the personal views of NHS staff. And, when those views are more broadly up for censorship and suppression, anyone invested in freedom of speech should be deeply concerned.

And, Dr. Aladwan is part of a fast-growing group of NHS staff facing intimidation, censorship, and professional discrimination for their views on Palestine. As the Canary reported previously, Muslim midwife Fatimah Mohamied is taking her former employers, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, to court. Even having left her job as a midwife, she was treated abhorrently by the trust, UK Lawyers for Israel, and the Nursing and Midwifery Council after she expressed her support of Palestine’s right to exist on her personal social media.

Death threats against Dr Aladwan

Dr Aladwan has also faced a campaign by the same lobby groups to bar her from medical practice – as the lobby tried and failed to do against Dr Ghassan Abu Sitta, but this time with the admitted collusion of the General Medical Council (GMC) for Dr Aladwan’s refusal to ‘repent’:

Dr Aladwan

A medical tribunal found Dr Aladwan had not done anything worthy of sanction:

However, a leaked internal GMC communication revealed that it is still seeking sanctions against her because she won’t ‘moderate’ her stance on Gaza:

 

Understandably, the entire process has taken its toll:

The death threats are worse than ever. I have had to call the police for the second time this year to protect my family.

Even then, the targeting of Dr Aladwan goes much deeper.

The Canary was present at a protest outside Downing Street on Wednesday 15 October. NHS doctors and nurses were protesting against state repression of their freedom of speech over Israel and Palestine. As we put out on our social media, cops got violent after they arrested a doctor that was there:

 

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But this doesn’t tell the whole story.

The Zionist lobby colluding with the cops

The woman arrested was de-arrested after just eight minutes. This was because cops had, in a characteristic fit of racism, mistaken her for Dr Aladwan. Why? Because just around the corner from the protest were two members of the Zionist lobby – as this image shows:

Both these men are linked to pro-Zionist group Stop The Hate UK, along with other Israeli groups. It was them who instructed the police to go an arrest who they believed was Dr Aladwan – except it wasn’t her.

Footage from the day shows cops with Dr Aladwan’s name on a piece of paper, as well as instructions on the law that they were going to arrest her under:

Dr Aladwan

It is likely that these two men, or others from Stop The Hate UK, did similar with the Met Police when cops arrested someone else on their hit list:

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BREAKING 📢 Activist and content creator @ani.says2 has been arrested AGAIN by the Met in the latest episode of targeted, racialised repression against her. Full story on www.thecanary.co Solidarity with Ani ✊

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Activist and journalist Ani.Says has been central to what has been going on. As the Canary previously reported, she has also been targeted by the Zionist lobby for her activism and views on Israel.

Ani told the Canary:

What we are now seeing in the UK is an extension of the violence that Israel has rained down on the Palestinians for two years of a genocide and for 77 years of occupation preceding this.

The British Government are controlled and owned by the Israeli Zionist lobby and are using the British police, media, and the legal system of this great nation to inflict their own version of violence on us. Unlawful arrests, public shaming, court cases, job losses, loss of freedom of speech and a fear for one’s life and safety if we speak out against a genocide.

Our media is controlled and anyone who speaks out to tell the truth is demonised and dehumanised. This is the the UK’s own version of a McCarthy type witch hunt where Zionist fingers point at us and the government and police do their bidding. Understand that this affects us all regardless of our political viewpoints. Dissent is being oppressed in every form.

Dr Aladwan could be any of us

Dr Aladwan predicted last week that the state would come for her, writing presciently on X that:

Britain is in serious trouble. They’re not just coming for me. They’re coming for our free speech. They’re coming for a fundamental British value: ‘innocent until proven guilty’.

There is now a concerted and organised campaign by the pro-Zionist lobby to doxx and target prominent anti-genocide activists – and then get the cops to collude with them to ensure people are arrested. It has taken the Met nearly a week to finally come for Dr Aladwan – and she knew it was going to happen.

So, the complicit Starmer regime’s war on the freedom of speech and protest rights of UK citizens – at the behest of the Zionist lobby – has come literally to Dr Aladwan and Ani’s doorsteps. But be warned: it might come to any of our doors next.

Additional reporting via Steve Topple

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By Skwawkbox

This post was originally published on Canary.