The British Medical Association, the union which effectively represents 190,000 doctors, is investigating its own president after complaints that she reposted numerous messages from antisemitic social media accounts.
The investigation against Dr Mary McCarthy, a Shropshire GP, has been announced in the wake of a meeting convened last week between the Jewish Medical Association and the medical regulatory body, the General Medical Council. It is understood that the Jewish medics expressed serious concerns about the rising level of antisemitism in the health services, made much worse and more public since the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023.
Analysis of McCarthy’s Twitter/X account shows that she reposted a tweet by Susan Abulhawa (who took part in last month’s Oxford Union debate proposing the motion that Israel was an apartheid state which had committed genocide), which said: “We need teams of lawyers now to go after complicit world leaders and… corporations and ‘non-profits’ profiting from this Holocaust.”