British surgeon with a history of supporting antisemitism sues NHS for using IHRA definition that proves it ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

British surgeon with a history of supporting antisemitism sues NHS for using IHRA definition that proves it

Middle East Eye reports:

A British surgeon is taking the National Health Service (NHS) and the UK government to court, arguing that the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism has been used to restrict political speech and silence pro-Palestine expression.

Ranjeet Brar was suspended from his role at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust following a speech he gave on 6 April 2026 outside the US embassy in London commemorating the victims of a reported US-Israeli attack on a school in the Iranian city of Minab.

In his speech, Brar said that Israel, which he described as a “genocidal settler colonial entity”, “has no right to existence” and “needs to be wiped off the map and replaced with the word ‘Palestine’”.

Footage of the speech was later circulated online by right-wing and pro-Israel social media accounts, including GB News and Julie Hartley-Brewer.

So Brar says he is not an antisemite. OK, let's see

He ended a fundraising video for his advocacy group by holding a sign that read, "Say no to 'genocide' doctors — Ban the Jewish Medical Association."

This was not a call to boycott Israeli products, not a demand that a colleague apologize for a specific statement, but a demand to abolish a professional body of Jewish doctors, on the grounds that Jewish doctors organizing as Jewish doctors is itself the problem. Healthcare Workers Against Censorship, the group Brar co-directs, frames this as resistance to "well-financed pro-Israel lobby groups — ardent Zionists." A Jewish Medical Association source put it more simply: they've said the JMA should be banned because it's "an extremist group."

Brar's preferred framework for all of this is Marxist class analysis, and he deploys it carefully. Global power belongs to a capitalist ruling class, he says, and Israel functions as an "unsinkable aircraft carrier" for Anglo-American imperial interests, not the reverse. Financial institutions, media narratives, and foreign policy all flow from "monopoly capitalism," never from any ethnic or religious group. It's a coherent worldview, and for most of the interview it stays coherent.

Then the interviewer raises the idea that Jews control the world's financial and political systems, and Brar's says yes, Jews are "a considerable number of people" among the financial ruling class, though the project itself is British, American, and European. Just with a lot of Jews.

His father Harpal Brar's pamphlet, which Ranjeet Brar has personally distributed and sold at rallies, is titled Zionism: A Racist, Antisemitic and Reactionary Tool of Imperialism, and its cover merges a Star of David with a swastika. Its fifth chapter argues that Nazi-Zionist collaboration "arose logically from shared aims." Elsewhere it revives the Khazar theory to deny Ashkenazi Jews their history. This is Protocols-style conspiracism laundered through "reactionary tool of imperialism," and Brar has never repudiated it, before or after his own arrest over it.

In fact, the pamphlet is distributed at rallies where Ranjeet Brar is a prominent speaker. If he was against antisemitism, why does he support the distribution of his father's antisemitic pamphlet?

The pattern holds outside the pamphlet too. In an April 2026 speech outside the US Embassy, Brar called for Israel's destruction and also described financiers in the City of London as "parasites." He has separately pushed the claim that Israel harvests Palestinian organs, an update on the medieval blood libel with a state substituted for the Jewish community. Each piece, alone, has a "materialist" gloss available. Together, they trace the same arc every time: economic grievance, routed through "Zionist" or "capitalist," landing on Jews as a class of people to be organizationally excluded.

None of this makes Brar unusual on the far left, which is precisely the point. What "the socialism of fools" describes is a structural resemblance between two explanations of who runs the world, one naming a class and one naming a people, that share enough vocabulary to slide into each other when the speaker stops being careful. Brar is careful in interviews. He is considerably less careful when he's holding a banner, selling a pamphlet, or answering an unscripted question about who's actually in the room when the money gets counted. The interview performance of principled anti-racism was never the evidence that mattered; the sign was.

This is exactly why the IHRA definition is so important. It can see when people like Ranjeet Brar are Jew haters even when they insist otherwise, because sometimes the context and history explains it all better than the antisemites' attempts at spin.

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