UK: Muslim Doctor and Holocaust Denier Who Celebrates Hamas and Hezbollah Leaders as ‘Legends’ is Suspended

Rehiana Ali is a Muslim doctor practicing in the U.K. On social media posts she has praised the terrorist leaders of Hamas and Hezbollah as “legends.” She denies that there were any Israelis raped on October 7, 2023. Ali is also a Holocaust-minimizer, claiming that three million – not six million — Jews died, a figure she mysteriously says is “according to Auschwitz.” She also claims that the celebrated diary of Anne Frank, a Dutch Jewish girl who died in Bergen-Belsen at the age of 14, is a “forgery.” Now Rehiana Ali has been suspended from practice for 18 months, while investigation into her fitness for practice continues. More on her case can be found here: “UK doctor suspended after calling Hamas, Hezbollah leaders ‘legends,'” by Michael Starr, Jerusalem Post, December 31, 2024:

A British neurologist received an interim suspension from the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) last week after complaints about controversial social media posts including those declaring Hamas and Hezbollah leaders to be legends, according to the General Medical Council and the doctor.

Dr. Rehiana Ali was suspended pending the conclusion of a full GMC investigation, the association said, rendering her temporarily unable to practice medicine for the National Health Service. The MPTS decision said the suspension would last for 18 months and was subject to review….

Ali, who had sought election in 2024 as an independent politician for Bradford South’s parliamentarian, told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday that she had been reported for a variety of “legitimate and accurate” anti-Israel social media posts.

“The MPTS finding was based on absolutely nothing,” said Ali. “They effectively admit it was not based on fact. Your fellow colleagues should have informed you that the ‘complaint’ was by the Israeli lobbies. The same complaints were dismissed three times previously by the GMC. The MPTS decision was a travesty and unfortunately brings them into disrepute given they are meant to serve the British public. They may have outlived their usefulness.”

Ali claimed ‘free speech’ 

The doctor contended in a Tuesday X post that the “Israel lobby” that had led the persecution against her had infiltrated most organizations, including the GMC and MPTS.

Ali argued on X Thursday that posts such as those relating to deceased Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah were legal political commentaries that had been distorted.

“Israel has failed. Nasrallah is now a legend – completely untouchable – in Lebanon. They’ve just immortalized the man forever. Rest in Peace,” Ali wrote on October 7, later eulogizing the Hamas leader in a similar manner on October 24. “Israel will lose. They’ve just turned Sinwar into a legend. A male role model.”…

So Rehiana Ali considers the man most responsible for the rapes, tortures, mutilations, and murders of 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023, the late Yahya Sinwar, to be a “role model.” Do you think someone holding such views should be allowed to practice medicine? What would Jewish patients assigned to her think if they knew her views? For that matter, what would any non-Muslim patients, if they realized that as a fanatical Muslim, Rehiana Ali undoubtedly believes that all non-Muslims are the “most vile of created beings” feel when they are told that Dr. Rehiana Ali “will now be your neurologist”? And how might her views affect her treatment of such non-Muslim patients?

How fit to be a physician is someone who believes that the Holocaust figures have been greatly exaggerated — she insists that “at most 3, not 6, million Jews were killed,” and, furthermore, believes Anne Frank’s Diary to be a “forgery”? Should her patients, should her fellow medical personal, not be alarmed at her lack of judgment, her semi-demented claims, her deep hatred of Jews and most likely, of other non-Muslims as well? Why, when her other judgements are so crazed, should anyone assume her judgements as a medical practitioner will be sound?

Would Rehiana Ali think that an obstetrician working for the NHS and who posted on social media his view that “Muslims are taking over Europe demographically and are outbreeding us, and we need to send them back to their Muslim countries before they destroy us all” is nonetheless fit to continue to practice? You know the answer to that.

“I’m Dr. Rehiana Ali Consultant Neurologist who was suspended for 18 months last week because I criticized the fake terrorist construct called Israel whose lobby in the UK has infiltrated most organizations including GMC and MPS,” Ali said in a Tuesday X post calling for the release of Kamal Adwan Hospital and alleged Hamas officer Dr Hussam Abu Safiya from IDF custody.

It was at the Kamal Adwan Hospital that the IDF discovered 240 Hamas combatants and rooms full of weapons of every type; the head of the hospital, Hussam Abu Safiya, depicted in much of the Western media as a heroic figure who won’t “abandon” his hospital (much like the naval captain who is last to leave a listing ship), turns out, according to IDF investigators, to have been a member of Hamas. Rehiana Ali neglects to mention any of that.

Ali mocks those who find her statements appalling and denies any evidence of “antisemitism” on her part, because “hurt feelings don’t count.” Insisting that there were “only” 3 million Jews murdered does more than cause “hurt feelings.” Claiming that Anne Frank’s diary was “forged” doesn’t result only in “hurt feelings.” Outrage, fury at the historical lies being told, a determination to rebut such dangerous nonsense, and make it harder for it to be spread — that is the response exhibited by those, Jews and non-Jews, who have called for Rehiana Ali’s permanent suspension.

Ali is deliberately misinforming the public. Complaints against her have not been dismissed; she has been suspended for 18 months and during that time there will be an investigation — the very investigation that Ali denies will take place. Hamas is a designated terrorist group not just in the U.K., but in the U.S., Canada, in all the member states of the EU, and in several Arab countries, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt.

Ali has also shared posts with fake and misleading Talmud quotes, claiming on Friday that Jews and Israelis behaved the way that they did because “all roads seem to lead to the supremacist beliefs in the Talmud.”

Does posting made-up Talmud quotes to blacken the image of Jews not constitute antisemitism? And do such quotes — used to persuade people that Jews are “conniving against the Gentiles” and “supremacists” and “evil to the core” — not suggest that the person spreading them is lacking in moral sense and judgement, the same moral sense and judgment that we expect our medical personnel to possess?

Dr. Ali is not merely anti-Israel; she celebrates the Hamas members who carried out the mass rapes, tortures, mutilations, and murders on October 7, 2023. She calls them “legends” — people to be praised to the skies, people whose deeds deserve to be emulated by others. Her hatred not only of Israelis, but of all Jews, lead her to Holocaust minimizing, which is one form of Holocaust denial — she wants to deprive the Jews of their own history, if that history might lead to greater sympathy for them.

The GMC will conduct its investigation. I would be amazed if it did not in the end call for Dr. Ali to be struck off. She’s a menace to her non-Muslim patients, who will rightly be most anxious if she is assigned to them. Instead, let her go practice in Pakistan, or Saudi Arabia, or Libya — some place where her lack of judgment will only affect fellow Muslims.