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Wednesday, November 26, 2025

11/26 Links Pt2: Palestine 36 is an insult to history; John Cleese apologises for sharing antisemitic posts; Notorious ‘Jewish supremacy’ rant doctor FINALLY has medical licence suspended

From Ian:

Palestine 36 is an insult to history
Palestine 36 is a new movie about Arab resistance to colonialism in British-governed Palestine in the late 1930s. It is a moving and eye-catching story, but it suffers from a big problem: it is not true.

Annemarie Jacir’s film looks the part, with its mix of beautifully realised life in the hill villages, Haifa townscapes and jazz-age cocktail parties. It is replete with neat production values, paid for with cash from BBC Films and the British Film Institute.

The performances from Karim Daoud Anaya, as young, radicalised journalist Yusuf, and Yafa Bakri, playing a widow called Rabab, are moving. Jeremy Irons, who plays British high commissioner Arthur Wauchope, and Robert Aramayo, as British intelligence officer Orde Wingate, are hiss-worthy music-hall villains.

The account of the conflict on which the movie is based – the events of 1936 to 1939 – is far less convincing. Jacir takes it as read that the British are working on behalf of the Jewish settlers, who are depicted as vicious and rapacious ‘colonisers’. Yet the truth about what is known as the Great Revolt is that the leaders of the Palestinian Arabs were more opposed to Jews than they were to British imperialism – indeed, they said straight-forwardly that they would have supported Britain if only it would stop Jewish immigration to Mandate Palestine.

Throughout the film, it is the Jews who are portrayed as the problem, while Britain is blamed for taking their side. In one scene, Rabab’s daughter, Afra, looks on at the Jewish women building their settlement and asks why they have come. Her mother replies ‘their countries don’t want them… I don’t know why.’

In the film, Jews are shown being allocated land by the British that was confiscated from Arabs. But that was not British policy. Whatever land Jews had in 1936, they had bought from Arab owners. ‘Palestine is not for sale’, say protesters in the movie. But the truth is that it was, and for a decent profit, too, for Arab landowners.
John Cleese apologises to Jewish News for sharing antisemitic posts – vows free Israel show
John Cleese has issued a fulsome apology to Jewish News for inadvertently sharing false and antisemitic content online – as he reiterated his pledge to make good on his pledge to perform again in Israel.

In an exclusive hour-long interview, the 86-year-old comedy icon said he was “extremely sorry” for reposting material he later discovered had been fabricated, including a false quote attributed to former Israeli ambassador Tzipi Hotovely and another suggesting Israel “controls global finance.

“I didn’t check them properly,” he said. “I couldn’t believe some of them had been completely invented. It was a mistake.”

The posts provoked widespread anger among Israelis and British Jews and came ahead of Cleese’s cancellation of three sold-out shows scheduled in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem between 26 November and 1 December.

Initial statements cited “security concerns,” while online speculation claimed he feared BDS pressure.

Cleese said the decision stemmed from anxiety rather than politics. “I was dreading it weeks before the posts,” he said. “I thought someone would ask me something political, and if I didn’t say the right thing it would be unpleasant for the rest of the tour.”

Asked whether he feared for his safety, he replied: “I think there was always a security element… but I didn’t know.”

The Fawlty Towers and Monty Python star admitted to being “naïve” about how easily posts can be manipulated and said he now intends to stop commenting on Israel online. “I don’t understand the internet,” he said. “People create things and don’t care that they can be disproved.”

Cleese condemned Hamas as “the nastiest of all terrorist organisations” and stood firmly by Israel’s right to defend itself, while expressing concern about some actions of the Israeli government. He also voiced concern about record levels of antisemitism in the UK, saying he was deeply saddened by reports from Jewish friends who told him how unsafe they now feel.
Revealed: Police quizzed wrongfully arrested Jewish mother over her faith
A wrongfully arrested mother was interrogated by police about her Jewish faith and involvement in a Holocaust Memorial Day event at her daughter’s school, the JC can reveal.

Citing a claim of “harassment” against her, an officer asked Rosalind Levine, 47, about emails she had sent her daughter’s school in which she offered to help arrange for Holocaust survivors to address pupils and requested the removal of her child from Christian prayer.

Levine and her partner, Maxie Allen, 50, received a payout from Hertfordshire Police earlier this month after the force admitted they had been wrong to send six officers to arrest the couple at their Borehamwood family home in January over complaints the pair had made about their daughter’s school.

CCTV footage captured the uniformed officers hauling the parents away as their three-year-old, Francesca, cried.

Documents seen by the JC now suggest Cowley Hill Primary School cited Levine’s emails relating to her Jewish faith, her Israeli family and her desire to promote Shoah education as part of a harassment report.

Levine said it felt like she had “slipped into an alternative reality” when she was forced to explain her religious rights from inside a police cell. “I felt I was in a weird nightmare,” she told the JC.

Shadow education secretary Laura Trott, said: “The family’s Jewish faith was entirely irrelevant, and questioning them about it was unacceptable. Freedom of religion is a cornerstone of our democracy, and any attempt to threaten it must be fought absolutely.”

Shadow DfE equalities minister Claire Coutinho called on Hertfordshire Constabulary “to come clean” on why Levine was questioned about her religion.

“This appears to be part of a worrying trend of Jewish people being asked about their religion in police interviews in a way that other groups wouldn’t be,” Coutinho said.

Former Attorney General Sir Michael Ellis added: “The appalling way these parents have been treated exemplifies the dire state of British policing at the moment.”

The couple were arrested on suspicion of harassment, malicious communications and causing a nuisance on school property – allegations later dismissed as baseless.


Notorious ‘Jewish supremacy’ rant doctor FINALLY has medical licence suspended
A British-Palestinian doctor who has become infamous for her rants about “ Jewish supremacy” in the UK has had her licence to practice medicine suspended for 15 months while the General Medical Council (GMC) investigates her conduct.

The decision, announced by the Medical Practitioner Tribunal Service on Wednesday evening, will go into effect immediately and will be reviewed in six months.

The tribunals decision described how the council for the GMC, Emma Gilsenan, had outlined “outlined a large number of Dr Aladwan’s posts which she submitted involve social media activity which allegedly justifies terrorism, denies sexual violence, includes antisemitic conspiracy theories, misuses Holocaust and Nazi imagery and expresses support for proscribed groups and terrorist acts including the Al-Aqsa flood (the name Hamas gave to its large-scale surprise attack on Israel on 07/10/2023).”

On 7 October this year, marking two years since the mass murder carried out by Hamas, Aladwan tweeted: “7 October – the day Israel was humiliated. Their supremacy shattered at the hands of the children they forced out of their homes. The children who watched foreign jews execute their loved ones, rape their land, and live on their stolen soil.”

She also posted a picture of one of the bulldozers used by Hamas to break down the border fence between Gaza and Israel on 7 October 2023, writing: “Glory to the breaking of the 17 year long illegal siege. Glory to the Palestinian resistance. Glory to our martyrs. Al-Aqsa flood. Palestine.”

According to the tribunal decision, “Ms Gilsenan also outlined a number of social media posts made by Dr Aladwan published since 25 September 2025, including in relation to the attack on a Manchester synagogue on 2 October 2025, which she submitted showed an escalation in the tone and level of Dr Aladwan’s communications. She outlined the impact that such alleged antisemitic, racist and highly offensive social media posts may have on public confidence in the profession and the confidence that patients are entitled to have in doctors.”

Aladwan had responded to news that hospitals across Manchester were ‘on lockdown, with people told not to attend A&E’ after the Heaton Park Synagogue terror attack, by saying “This is extremely concerning. A hospital is a pillar of civic society, a sanctuary of care that must remain universally accessible. When the State commands these institutions to close their doors to all but the most critically injured, it weaponizes public health and safety. It effectively places a specific community’s security above the healthcare of the entire population, creating a dangerous and discriminatory precedent…This action frames an entire group or community as so separate, so uniquely threatened or threatening, that the normal functioning of society must be halted for them. This is highly divisive and erodes the very principle of universal public provision that the National Health Service was founded upon.”

The GMC’s council “submitted that there is a risk that Dr Aladwan’s comments undermine public confidence in her, as a doctor, and the profession as a whole, when applying the standard of what an ordinary reasonable member of the public, with a reasonable understanding of the main historical and cultural manifestations of antisemitism, would think. She submitted that moreover, that reasonable person would almost indubitably be shocked and alarmed to learn that Dr Aladwan was allowed to continue to practice when she is alleged to have made such comments.”
UKLFI: Dr Rahmeh Aladwan Suspended
The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) has imposed a 15-month interim suspension on Dr Rahmeh Aladwan, a trainee in Trauma and Orthopaedics, following extensive concerns about antisemitic, extremist, and pro-terrorist social media posts. The decision, issued on 26 November 2025, follows a series of complaints from members of the public and organisations — including UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) — regarding Dr Aladwan’s online conduct.

UKLFI first raised concerns with the General Medical Council (GMC) in early 2024, highlighting Dr Aladwan’s repeated use of Holocaust analogies, antisemitic tropes and other offensive material. In February 2025, the GMC issued advice to Dr Aladwan warning her to reconsider how she expressed her views, noting that her comments — including Nazi and Holocaust comparisons — could be seen as antisemitic or grossly offensive.

UKLFI submitted further evidence to the GMC on 30 March 2025, providing additional material which the GMC’s Assistant Registrar later described as a “departure in tone” and involving posts using Hamas symbolism and references to “Jewish supremacy”. The GMC concluded that these new posts warranted a fresh investigation.

Escalating Concerns and New Complaints
In addition to UKLFI’s submissions, the GMC received multiple complaints from members of the public alleging that Dr Aladwan had:
posted antisemitic and offensive comments,
disseminated material appearing to support terrorism,
“doxxed” a former colleague on social media.

Although an earlier Interim Orders Tribunal (IOT) in September 2025 declined to restrict her registration, the GMC brought the case back before the tribunal after identifying new and increasingly extreme posts, including comments made following the Manchester synagogue attack on 2 October 2025. The GMC argued that Dr Aladwan’s posts showed an escalation in tone and content, featuring antisemitic conspiracy theories, praise for terrorist acts, and racist language.

Tribunal’s Findings
The Interim Orders Tribunal concluded that the allegations — if proven — were “serious” and arose from a persistent and prolonged pattern of posting egregious material. Among the concerns cited were:
repeated antisemitic tropes, including claims of Jewish control of government and media,
glorification of terrorist attacks, including Hamas’s 7 October 2023 massacre,
apparent support for proscribed terrorist organisations,
demonisation of Jews and Israelis,
mockery of victims of violence,
referring to an NHS hospital as a “Jewish supremacy cesspit”.

The Tribunal also noted Dr Aladwan’s arrest in connection with four matters relating to potential offences of stirring up racial hatred, malicious communications, and misuse of communications networks.
Anti-Semitism Is Often ‘Fabricated,' According to Curriculum Bankrolled by George Soros
Amid a historic spike in anti-Semitism, liberal billionaire George Soros is bankrolling an education company that provides a "curriculum on anti-Semitism" to students from kindergarten to college. The organization, PARCEO, is led by anti-Israel activists who claim many allegations of anti-Semitism are "fabricated" and used to silence pro-Palestinian activists.

Open Society Foundations (OSF) gave $50,000 last year to the New York-based PARCEO to develop its "Curriculum on Antisemitism from a Framework of Collective Liberation," according to OSF’s grants database.

The revelation about OSF's role sheds new light on a curriculum that has stirred controversy at some public schools in New York and California. Jewish faculty at New York City’s High School for Community Leadership, for example, complained the curriculum presented a "one-sided indoctrination" about the Israel-Hamas war, according to the New York Post.

PARCEO, in tandem with the anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), also held a curriculum workshop at Northwestern University in April to counter the school’s mandate for students to watch a video about anti-Semitism.

And in San Francisco, the teachers' union provided the PARCEO curriculum as an alternative to one from American Jewish Committee (AJC) that had been approved by the San Francisco school board.

AJC blasted the PARCEO curriculum, saying the group "makes bizarre and radical claims about antisemitism even over ostensibly uncontroversial matters." It cited a PARCEO video presentation that claimed when Jews contact police about hate crimes, they contribute to the "continued oppression, incarceration and murder of [Black] people."
NYC teacher sends threat to ‘jew hating bastards’ in unhinged DMs to City College: docs
A fifth grade teacher at a Big Apple private school was suspended after unhinged online ramblings that included a warning to CUNY City College that “none of you Jew-hating bastards are safe,” prosecutors and sources said.

Joshua Penn, 39, made the raging post after an interfaith event on campus turned chaotic when a Muslim speaker hatefully singled out a “Zionist” in attendance — and allegedly sent DMS to City College’s Instagram page threatening controversial self-described imam Abdullah Mady, according to a criminal complaint and law enforcement sources.

The Manhattan resident teaches at the Corlears School and has since been placed on administrative leave, the school’s leader confirmed to The Post Tuesday.

Penn was busted Friday and charged with second-degree aggravated harassment but pleaded not guilty in Manhattan court later the same day.

Penn’s alleged threats emerged as news of Mady’s actions at the off-the-rails Nov. 13 City College interfaith event spread last week and was widely condemned.

Mady, a recent grad pursuing his master’s degree at the school, encouraged Muslim students to leave the workshop because of the involvement of Ilya Bratman — an adjunct lecturer at Baruch College and the director of the Hillel Jewish campus group, according to audio obtained by The Post and people in attendance.

Penn, from his Instagram account “jewfacekillah,” leveled the threats on City College’s social media page that were seen by the school’s communication director last Thursday, court docs obtained by The Post alleged.

“Let your faculty member Abdullah he gunna catch it in the street,” Penn allegedly wrote, the complaint states.
‘Repulsive’ anti-Israel group protests against fallen UK-Israeli soldier’s father
The behaviour of anti-Israel students at Leeds University has been described as “staggering and repulsive” by the Union of Jewish Students, after the “Leeds Students Against Apartheid Coalition” group organised a protest against the visit of the father of a fallen British-Israeli soldier, describing the 20 year old, killed by Hamas, as “a war criminal who committed genocide in the Gaza Strip”.

Sergeant Yisrael Natan Rosenfeld, who grew up in Hendon, North West London, was serving in the IDF’s 601st Combat Engineering Battalion when he was killed by an explosive device in June. His father, Avi, is currently visiting the UK, speaking to Jewish communities around the country about his family’s loss.

A post from the Leeds Students Against Apartheid Coalition (LSAAC), also known as “Leeds Students 4 Palestine” showed a picture of Sergeant Rosenfeld with his father, featuring the red triangle of Hamas in the background, titled “War Criminals of [sic] our Campus”. It described Sergeant Rosenfeld as “a war criminal who committed genocide in the Gaza Strip”.

The statement from the anti-Israel group accompanying the picture claimed that “After over two years of a genocide that our University has supported through its partnerships with weapon manufacturers, the University now sees it fit to allow the criminals who had a hand in committing this genocide to roam our campus, and give a talk about loss! As if the loss of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians isn’t important to them.”


Cornell grad student union approves BDS resolution backing resistance ‘by any means’
Cornell University’s graduate student union on Wednesday said it had officially adopted a resolution backing Palestinian resistance “by any means necessary.”

A spokesperson for Cornell distanced the university from the union and condemned antisemitism.

“Our [union] is now taking an official stance on one of the most important issues of our lifetimes: the Palestinian liberation struggle,” the union said in a message to members.

The union said the resolution, titled “International Solidarity with the Palestinian Liberation Struggle,” passed with 559 votes in favor, and 215 against, according to a copy of the message obtained by The Times of Israel.

“Amid nationwide repression of pro-Palestine speech, our union is taking a principled stance to empower and protect all of our members in speaking out against genocide,” the message said.

The union, Cornell Graduate Students United — UE Local 300, issued a draft of the resolution to members in October and voted on the measure in the past week.

The resolution endorsed the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign targeting Israel; demanded that Cornell disclose its finances, land holdings and academic partnerships; divest from entities tied to “morally reprehensible activities”; not implement disciplinary measures in response to pro-Palestinian speech; and hold “political education about the Palestinian struggle for liberation” and its connection to Cornell.

The measure said “solidarity with Palestine” is “a moral imperative and the most effective means of defending Cornell graduate workers.”


Deadly raid in Ramtha: Jordanian forces kill extremist suspects after firefight
Jordanian security forces neutralized armed suspects in a raid in northern Jordan, Jordanian state media said, on the morning of November 26.

Jordan’s state Petra News said that “the Public Security Directorate (PSD) reported that a special security unit raided a site in Ramtha on Tuesday evening, sheltering two brothers wanted for extremist-related investigations.”

Ramtha is located in northern Jordan, near the city of Irbid and the border with Syria. Over the past decade, it has been a transit area for many Syrian refugees and displaced people.

Jordan has seen several terrorist incidents in recent years. In 2016, dozens of suspects, emanating from Irbid, were arraigned on terror charges related to their role in having weapons and committing terrorist acts.

In 2017, Jordan executed 10 people on terror charges, some for crimes dating back two decades.

The recent report says that upon arrival to detain the suspects in Ramtha, “the suspects opened heavy fire on the unit, injuring three officers who were hospitalized for treatment.“The suspects, who had used their mother as a human shield, were killed during the operation. Authorities ensured the mother was unharmed.”

Petra News said, “The raid also led to the seizure of firearms and ammunition at the location.”


California man faces up to 15 years for threat to ‘blow up every synagogue in a 20-mile radius’
Elijah Alexander King, 36, who allegedly threatened to bomb every synagogue within a 20-mile radius, was arraigned on Tuesday on a three-count federal indictment, the U.S. Justice Department said.

The resident of San Luis Obispo, Calif., near the coast some 100 miles northwest of Santa Barbara, was charged with three counts related to making threats and conveying hoaxes.

The defendant, who pleaded not guilty and who had been in federal custody since Nov. 6, is set to go to trial on Jan. 13, the department said. He is to be released on bond.

He is accused of making the threat that “I’m gonna blow up every synagogue in a 20-mile radius” on social media on Aug. 28, using what the Justice Department said was an email address and phone number that “he is known to use.”

Shortly after posting the threat, King wrote that “this is a real threat. Send the police and report me for terrorism,” and some 10 minutes later, he searched on his phone for synagogues nearby, the Justice Department said.

Even after police had King sent to a hospital for monitoring, he kept posting on social media, according to the Justice Department, including writing that “I got arrested and put on a three-day psych hold for my posts against the Jews.” He also allegedly shared someone else post saying that there is a need for “Jew control” not “gun control.”

King has also posted “antisemitic rhetoric, including praise for Adolf Hitler,” and messages with “images of weapons, including a handgun, knives and mace,” and has sent “numerous” racist emails and voicemails to the police detective who placed the pyschiatric hold on him, the Justice Department said.

King faces up to 15 years in prison for the charges.


NVIDIA explores major R&D expansion in northern Israel
Months after NVIDIA confirmed its plans to double down on Israel, the country is trying to woo the company to settle in the northern town of Kiryat Tivon, mere minutes away from its Yokneam site and home to the first location it established after acquiring Mellanox in 2019.

The news comes soon after the company secured a collaboration with Israel’s Sheba Medical Center and Mount Sinai for a multi-year partnership to explore the human genome with LLMs, adding a major healthcare and research collaboration to its expanding footprint in the country.

The world’s most valuable chipmaker is making a bet: that Israel’s artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem remains one of the few places capable of accelerating breakthroughs at scale and securing its place as one of the top big players in the years to come.

“I see NVIDIA’s major expansion here as a powerful endorsement of Israel’s attractiveness for cutting-edge semiconductor and AI projects,” said Asaf Bruner, Engineering Group Manager at SAP‏ and head of its AI community. “In many ways, Israel has become the ‘go-to’ hub for advanced tech R&D, and NVIDIA’s move amplifies that reputation.”


26/11 Mumbai Attack 17th Anniversary: Israel’s Envoy Revisits Baby Moshe’s Escape From Chabad House And Celebrates India’s Courage, Unity & Humanity
Mumbai: At a solemn gathering in the city on Wednesday, the Consul General of Israel in Mumbai, Yaniv Revach, invoked one of the most extraordinary survival stories from the 26 November attacks to highlight the power of compassion that cut across religion and identity.

Revach spoke about little Moshe, the two year old boy who survived the assault on the Chabad House in 2008. His story, he said, continues to define the strength of Mumbai and the harmony of India.

A Child Saved by Courage Beyond Faith
Revach reminded the audience that Moshe lived only because of two people who refused to think twice on a day consumed by terror. One was Sandra Samuel, his Christian nanny. The other was Zaki, the Muslim kitchen worker at the centre.

Both risked their lives to pull the toddler out while his parents were killed in another room.“They are a powerful symbol of India’s humanity, courage and unity beyond all differences,” Revach said. Now nineteen, Moshe is a living reminder, he added, that life stands stronger than the hate and violence that terrorists seek to spread.

Personal Loss and Shared Pain
In an emotional address, Revach spoke of the heavy cost his own family bore on 7 October. His daughter, a surveillance operator, was among the first to raise the alarm during the attack in Israel. His son had just completed his military service in an intelligence unit.He revealed that his partner’s cousin was kidnapped and murdered during the 7 October massacre. “His body was returned from Gaza by Hamas only two weeks ago,” he said quietly.

The shared grief between India and Israel, Revach noted, strengthens the bond between the two nations.

Fighting the False Narratives of Terror
Revach emphasised that both countries face similar challenges as they continue to confront groups that twist narratives and portray attackers as victims. India, he said, has long mastered the art of handling several security challenges simultaneously. Israel, meanwhile, has been fighting a difficult war on seven fronts over the past two years.He added that Israel is ready to share its combat proven technologies as India continues its rapid defence modernisation. The two countries, he said, stand together against what he described as a dangerous rise in state sponsored extremism.




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