Disturbing new testimony from Britain is raising serious concerns over antisemitism inside the country’s National Health Service, with Jewish patients and medical professionals describing harassment, threats, discrimination and even physical violence since the October 7 Hamas massacre.
A newly released documentary, “Malignant: Antisemitism in the NHS,” produced by the Campaign Against Antisemitism, features accounts from Jews who say they encountered antisemitism while working in or receiving treatment from Britain’s public healthcare system.
Among the incidents documented is a Jewish nurse who says a colleague performed a Nazi salute; a senior medical professor who received antisemitic death threats; and a Jewish emergency-services worker who says he was physically attacked by a colleague.
One Jewish patient described undergoing surgery while his doctor allegedly made antisemitic remarks connected to Israel and the war in Gaza.
“While making an incision in my head, he says — the Jews are shooting children,” the patient recalled.
Another patient discovered that a doctor who had treated him, Dr. Wahid Asif Shaida, also known as Abdul Wahid, was a senior figure in the British branch of Hizb ut-Tahrir. Britain banned the Islamist organization in January 2024 under terrorism laws after determining that it promoted and encouraged terrorism, including through praise for the October 7 Hamas attack.
Perhaps most alarming are the results of a survey released alongside the documentary.
The Campaign Against Antisemitism surveyed 4,490 British Jews in November 2025 and found that 65.1% were concerned they might not receive equal medical or administrative treatment from the NHS because they are Jewish.
Among respondents who had received NHS treatment since October 7, 2023, approximately one-third said they had felt uncomfortable because of their Jewish identity. More than four in ten said they had taken steps to conceal that identity while seeking medical care, including hiding visible Jewish symbols or avoiding telling medical personnel they were Jewish.
The findings follow an official British government-commissioned review released in June by Lord John Mann, the government’s independent adviser on antisemitism.
Mann reported hearing testimony of routine exclusion of Jews, persistent negative treatment because of their identity and serious incidents of racial hatred. NHS data cited in the review showed that 13% of Jewish employees reported discrimination from managers or colleagues during the previous year, while 11% reported discrimination from patients or members of the public.
The report warned that some Jewish patients had avoided seeking medical treatment, while some Jewish healthcare workers were considering leaving their jobs.
NHS England chief executive Sir Jim Mackey responded to the findings by declaring that “antisemitism and all forms of racism have no place in the NHS.”
The British government accepted the review’s recommendations and announced measures aimed at strengthening accountability, improving complaint and investigative procedures and introducing mandatory training against racism and antisemitism.
(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)
