Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan addresses the Activist Independent Movement’s Nakba77, Birmingham Demonstration for Palestine, outside the local BBC offices and studios in 2025. Photo: Screenshot

London’s Metropolitan Police arrested a doctor in the UK who called for the ethnic cleaning of Jews and celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel

Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan, 31, was charged Tuesday on four charges related to her statements about the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, London police said.

Video footage on social media shows police officers removing the trainee surgeon in handcuffs after explaining her alleged crimes.

Aldawan has been the subject of an ongoing investigation by the General Medical Council and was scheduled to appear again before a tribunal on Thursday, following public pushback after a previous review cleared her to continue practicing medicine.

The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) has led the push for government investigation into Aldawan. The group released a statement on X following the police’s actions.

“Dr Rahmeh Aladwan has been arrested. We have submitted numerous complaints to the General Medical Council (GMC) regarding this doctor, who is a prolific poster of the most deranged material and claims about Jewish people, and is self-evidently unfit to serve as a regulated professional,” CAA wrote. “The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) inexplicably disagreed, allowing her to continue to practice as a trainee pending further investigation, and we have threatened legal action.”

Some of Aladwan’s statements that led to CAA’s complaints and her Tuesday arrest included calling Royal Free Hospital in London “a Jewish supremacy cesspit” and saying that “over 90% of the world’s Jews are genocidal.”

In the arrest video, the female officer tells Aladwan, “You’re under arrest for four offenses: malicious communications times three, and for inciting racial hatred.”

After hearing the charges against her, Aladwan asks the police officer in the video, “Are you doing this for Israel?”

“I know you’re doing this for the Israeli Jewish lobby so you can get an arrest on me before my tribunal on Thursday,” she adds, according to the video. “A doctor for seven years and I’ve never harmed anybody. Never had any patient complaints. And this is what the British state is doing for Israel, for genocidal Israel.”