UK rejects push to suspend Ghassan Abu Sittah's medical license
UK rejects push to suspend Ghassan Abu Sittah's medical license
The British-Palestinian doctor and activist won against attempts to suspend his medical license by a pro-Israeli group.
Renowned British-Palestinian doctor and activist Ghassan Abu Sittah has been fully cleared after an attempt by the pro-Israel group UK Lawyers For Israel (UKLFI) to revoke his medical license was firmly rejected by the Interim Orders Tribunal, the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) announced on Tuesday.
The General Medical Council (GMC) filed the suspension request as part of an ongoing investigation, the ICJP confirmed.
The complaint was initially brought forward by UKLFI, who claimed that Abu Sittah was "unfit" to continue practising medicine over his social media posts and called for his license to be revoked.
The UKLFI attempted "to tarnish Professor Abu Sittah's esteemed reputation and diminish his standing as a prominent figure within the British Palestinian community", the ICJP said.
The fact that something called “UK Lawyers for Israel” exists is quite something. Imagine Israel replaced with basically any other country