Doctors criticise medical regulators over campaign against British-Palestinian surgeon

Doctors criticise medical regulators over campaign against British-Palestinian surgeon Submitted by Areeb Ullah on Mon, 03/23/2026 - 13:24 Hundreds of doctors sign petition calling on leaders of General Medical Council to resign for launching appeal against Ghassan Abu Sittah The GMC is pursuing its High Court appeal after a separate medical tribunal found that Ghassan Abu-Sittah did not support terrorism and a proscribed terror group Off Hundreds of doctors in the UK have signed a petition accusing the country's medical regulator of fostering an “environment of fear” by pursuing what they say is a politically motivated campaign against the prominent British- Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu Sittah. The petition, organised by Health Workers 4 Palestine, calls on the leadership of the General Medical Council (GMC) to resign after the regulator said it would challenge the outcome of an independent tribunal which cleared Abu Sittah of wrongdoing following a complaint brought by a pro-Israel advocacy group over an article he had written for a Lebanese newspaper. The petition also raised concerns about financial governance at the regulator, after noting that legal costs in the Abu Sittah case reportedly exceed £200,000 - an amount that requires approval from the GMC’s most senior leadership.