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Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah, a “Palestinian” who was born and raised in Kuwait and never lived in “Palestine,” now practices medicine in the UK, where he is a plastic and reconstructive surgeon. He’s also the Rector of Glasgow University, a post he was given as a way to express solidarity with him after charges against him of being a supporter of Hamas were made.
He is a figure of some prominence. But he’s also been an enthusiastic supporter of Hamas, and especially admiring of its attack on Israelis on October 7, 2023, in which Hamas gang-raped, torture, mutilated, and murdered 1,200 people. He has also given an interview to a newspaper In which he expressed antisemitic views. Given Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah’s murderous rhetoric and views, United Kingdom Lawyers For Israel (UKLFI) called into question his fitness to practice medicine. More on Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah can be found here.
A world-leading plastic and reconstructive surgeon re-posted antisemitic and pro-terrorism messages on social media, a medical tribunal heard.
Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, who has worked as a war surgeon in Gaza, Lebanon and Syria and is also Rector of Glasgow University, is also accused of expressing antisemitic views in a newspaper article and showing support for proscribed terrorist organisation Hamas.
The Kuwait-born surgeon appeared before a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) misconduct hearing in Manchester yesterday and denies the allegations against him.
The tribunal heard how a complaint was received about the doctor from UK Lawyers For Israel (UKFLI) relating to two reposts on X, formerly Twitter.
One read: “We congratulate our brothers in Hamas and our comrades in the Popular Front on the anniversary of their inception. May you remain sincere, steadfast, and vigilant. May your strength endure and your enemies be humbled #Hamas _35 #Hamas #Our_inception_is_resistance.”
Another referred to the “Iranian Martyrs in the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine”, adding: “Their blood is Iranian. Their heart is Palestinian.”…
Giving evidence, Abu-Sittah said he had reposted the comments, which were in Arabic, because he found them “intellectually and culturally interesting”.
No, Abu-Sittah didn’t just find those comments in praise of Hamas “intellectually and culturally interesting,” as he now claims. He was in total agreement with them — that is, in total agreement with their praise of Hamas, and by reposting them, he quite clearly wanted to spread their message.
He said the reposts would be difficult for anyone unfamiliar with Arabic language and Arabic culture and he’d wanted to highlight “inherent contradictions” within them….
How did he show the “inherent contradictions” in its messages that non-Arabic speakers would fail to grasp? Is Abu-Sittah trying to suggest that non-Arabs may wrongly read into these messages praise of murderous violence that isn’t meant, but non-Arabs simply wouldn’t comprehend?
He also accused the UKLFI of “dog-whistling” and racially profiling Palestinians as “inherently violent.”
There was no “racial profiling” of “Palestinians” for two reasons: First, “Palestinians” are not a “race.” Second, Dr. Ghassan Abu-Sittah had reposted praise of the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023. No one at the UKLFI has claimed that all “Palestinians” are “inherently violent.” But no one can deny that many “Palestinians” are “violent” because they follow the dictates of the Qur’an, that tells them that when they meet the Unbelievers, who are “the most vile of created beings” (98:6), they should “strike at their necks” (47:4). And there are several dozen Qur’anic passages with the same murderous messages, which Abu-Sittah surely knows.
He also claimed they wanted to “destroy my life” because he had met International Criminal Court (ICC) investigators.
The group United Kingdom Lawyers For Israel (UKLFI) did not want to “destroy his life,” as the self-pitying, melodramatic Ghassan Abu-Sittah wants us all to believe. The UKLFI simply wanted to question his fitness to practice medicine in the UK, given his open support for terrorist atrocities.
Now, on January 9, 2026, a higher tribunal, the Medical Practitioners Service Tribunal Service Tribunal, has decided his case. And I regret to say that the MPST concluded that Ghassan Abu-Sittah’s praise of Hamas murderers did not make him unfit to practice medicine. He was cleared of the charge of antisemitism, which is hard to square with his enthusiasm for Hamas. He will not be reprimanded, much less struck off. He’s free to keep spreading his anti-Israel and antisemitic venom, both in his own social media posts, and in those by others that he chooses to so enthusiastically re-post. A defeat for common sense and decency, and a victory not just for Ghassan Abu-Sittah, but for all admirers of Hamas.
What should his Jewish patients do? What should all of his non-Muslim patients do?
