This is an HWAC opinion piece responding to a Daily Mail article. The facts below are drawn from the published sources listed at the end.
Disclosure: Dr Nadeem Crowe, one of the people named in the Daily Mail article and discussed below, is involved with HWAC.
On 10 October 2026 the Daily Mail published an article headlined "Revealed: The NHS workers who claimed Zionists 'control the world' and called Hamas terrorists 'the resistance'". It named five NHS workers and reproduced material from their social media accounts. By the paper's own account, the posts were "uncovered by Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA)" during the group's own investigation.
HWAC does not defend every word any healthcare worker has ever posted, and we are clear that antisemitism must always be challenged. But this kind of journalism deserves a response, because of what it does to people whose cases have already been examined.
The facts buried in the copy
Take the midwife named in the article. Several paragraphs down, the Mail reports that she was referred by her former employer both to the Nursing and Midwifery Council and to the police under Prevent, and that "both referrals were dismissed". She denies any wrongdoing and has brought a claim against her former employer, which is ongoing. Yet she appears near the top of a national newspaper article about "hate in healthcare".
Take Dr Nadeem Crowe, the A&E doctor also named. He has brought an employment tribunal claim against the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, and the outcome of that tribunal is still pending. According to the Evening Standard's report of the hearing in June, Dr Crowe told the tribunal his suspension came 63 minutes after the complaint was lodged, and the trust's responsible officer accepted under cross-examination that she did not show him any of the posts at the meeting that followed: "I didn't take him to any posts." The Standard and The National report that his suspension was lifted on 16 August 2024 after he deleted the posts, and his solicitors, Leigh Day, say no further action was taken. Dr Crowe says he was discriminated against because of his anti-Zionist beliefs and his Arab heritage. The trust's primary case at the tribunal, as reported by The National, was that "there was no disciplinary action", and it says the processes followed were informal. The tribunal has not yet ruled.
Both declined to comment to the Mail.
Who sets the agenda?
The article closes with the CAA's director of investigations, Stephen Silverman, describing what is happening in medicine as "a national disgrace" and saying the authorities are "doing nothing". Readers are not told that the GMC's own figures, reported by Doctors.net.uk, show regulatory action against around 30 of roughly 170 doctors subject to antisemitism complaints since October 2023. In other words, most doctors complained about faced no regulatory action at all.
Our view
When a campaign group's research becomes a newspaper story, and that story includes a healthcare worker whose referrals were dismissed and a doctor whose suspension was lifted with no further action, the message to every nurse and doctor in Britain is clear: speak about Palestine and your name may appear in a newspaper whatever the outcome. We believe that is not accountability. It is intimidation by publicity.
We call on editors to give the outcome of a referral the same prominence as the allegation, and we stand with every healthcare worker who refuses to be shamed into silence about Gaza.
Sources
- Daily Mail: Revealed: The NHS workers who claimed Zionists 'control the world' (10 October 2026, updated 19 October 2026)
- Evening Standard: London doctor suspended by NHS for anti-Zionist posts 'not shown evidence' (19 June 2026)
- Leigh Day: Tribunal to hear NHS doctor's discrimination claim (11 June 2026)
- The National: British-Jordanian doctor sues NHS (16 June 2026)
- Doctors.net.uk: GMC defends its handling of antisemitism complaints (5 October 2026)
