Jewish doctor suspended after Islamophobic comments

A Jewish GP who told a Muslim colleague it was “typical of you Muslims to gaslight” has been suspended from the UK medical register for four months.A medical practitioners tribunal also found that Cinderella Nonoo-Cohen, referred to as Dr Cohen throughout the hearing, had made a comment that “demonstrated racial hostility” on the social media site X the following month.1Cohen’s comment about Muslims gaslighting was made on a GPs’ WhatsApp forum, the Highgate Self Directed Learning Group, shortly after the Hamas 7 October 2023 attack on Israel.A GP, named only as “Dr A” by the tribunal, who is a Muslim woman, invited others to “consider signing” a petition to remove the Israeli flag then flying from the Department of Health and Social Care building in London.“In response to the bombardments of the hospitals, some GPs and other doctors have come together to go to this Saturday’s pro-Palestine protest,” wrote Dr…