By Albert Tait

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An NHS doctor who allegedly denied the Holocaust cannot be let off, a former attorney general has urged Wes Streeting.

The Health Secretary is under pressure to challenge a medical tribunal’s ruling that allowed NHS doctor Rahmeh Aladwan to keep her job.

Mr Streeting has been urged to launch a judicial review into the tribunal’s decision to allow Dr Aladwan to continue practising despite claims that Jewish patients would not feel safe in her care.

The trauma and orthopaedics doctor has allegedly refused to condemn the Oct 7 attacks, called Israelis “worse than Nazis”, and described two Palestinian gunmen who carried out a fatal bus shooting as “martyrs”.

The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) ruled this week that she would remain free to practise while the General Medical Council (GMC), the doctors’ watchdog, carries out an investigation into her social media posts.

Sir Michael Ellis, the former attorney general, said it was “imperative” for Mr Streeting, who has previously vowed to root out anti-Semitism in the NHS, to launch a judicial review.

Such a process would involve asking a judge to rule on the lawfulness of the tribunal’s ruling, and, if successful, could result in the decision being quashed and the MPTS asked to rule again on Dr Aladwan’s case.

Sir Michael told The Telegraph: “Wes Streeting has said that he has no faith in the medical regulator. That now makes this issue a critical matter of public and patient safety.

“After this extraordinary ruling there are many people who would agree with the Health Secretary, but it is incumbent on him now to do something about it.

“In the circumstances it is imperative that the Health Secretary launches a judicial review of this ruling. The future of this public body rests on the general public having confidence in it.”

A spokesman for the Department of Health and Social Care would not comment on whether Mr Streeting was planning to launch a judicial review.

However, he pointed to the Health Secretary’s comments on Friday night in which he criticised the tribunal’s ruling and said he has no faith in the medical regulator.

Mr Streeting wrote on X: “The racist language of ‘Jewish supremacy’ reflects the values of Nazis, not the NHS.“I fail to see how medics using such language with impunity doesn’t undermine confidence in the medical profession. I have no confidence in our regulation system.”

The Campaign Against Antisemitism said it was preparing to apply for a judicial review into the ruling but would step aside if Mr Streeting chose to lead the legal challenge.

The Telegraph has uncovered posts on a Twitter account thought to be operated by Dr Aladwan, which has 35,000 followers. Posts on the account have described anti-Semitism and the Holocaust as “concepts” used by Jewish people to “promote a narrative of victimhood”.

Other posts say: “I will never condemn the 7th of October”, while denying that any rapes took place during the Hamas-led massacre in 2023.

During Dr Aladwan’s tribunal hearing on Thursday, the GMC said that Dr Aladwan’s posts “appear to demonise Israelis and Jews” and claimed she had “embraced the label of anti-Semitism” and described the Holocaust “as a fabricated victim narrative”.

However, the tribunal ruled her posts did not amount to “bullying or harassment” and said there was not sufficient evidence to establish Dr Aladwan posed a real risk to patients.

At the hearing, Dr Aladwan, who is of British-Palestinian heritage, told the hearing that all the social media posts were “legitimate and can be defended and reasoned”.

She spoke through tears as she said that more than 50 of her friends had died during the conflict in Gaza which she described as a “genocide” and a “holocaust”.

Following the verdict, Dr Aladwan, who has the words Free Palestine tattooed on her left bicep, celebrated with her activist supporters outside the tribunal building in Manchester.

Dr Aladwan and the MPTS were approached for comment.