[News] UK doctor arrested under pressure from Israel lobby over ‘anti-genocide posts’

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UK doctor arrested under pressure from Israel lobby over ‘anti-genocide
posts’
Presstv
December 2, 2025
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Tens of thousands of Palestine supporters demonstrate in front of the Prime
Minister's Office is located in London, United Kingdom on January 18, 2025.
(Photo via AFP)

*British police have arrested a senior doctor under pressure from
pro-Israel lobby groups over social media posts condemning the regime's
genocide against Palestinians.*

Ellen Kriesels, a consultant paediatrician with more than 15 years of
service at London’s Whittington Hospital, was arrested at her home on
Saturday by officers from the Metropolitan Police.

According to a colleague of Kriesels, she was arrested in front of her
children.

“The Israeli lobby began hunting her in September because of her sign at a
national Palestine demonstration,” Doctor Rahmeh Aladwan wrote in a post on
X.

"Britain is doing this to our NHS doctors for Israel. Britain is occupied,”
she added.

Kriesels was first targeted after appearing at a pro-Palestine protest
holding a placard opposing Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. Within days, she
was suspended from Whittington Hospital.

She was subsequently reported to the General Medical Council (GMC) and
later to the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS), which suspended
her medical license for nine months.

Healthcare workers’ group HCWs Against Censorship also condemned Kriesels'
arrest, which it said was followed by a coordinated campaign against her
after she participated in a national pro-Palestine demonstration in
September.

“The Israeli lobby strikes again,” the group said, adding that police acted
following complaints from pro-Israel lobbying organisations, including UK
Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) and the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA).

The arrest was carried out “on behalf of a foreign-aligned lobby,” the
group said, describing it as "an absolute outrage."

“This is what Britain now does to NHS doctors for speaking about
Palestine,” one supporter said. “It is repression, plain and simple.”

No formal charges have been publicly confirmed yet. The Metropolitan Police
have not released details of the specific offences under investigation.

In a post on X dated September 17, Kriesels criticized the NHS for
reporting her to the police over her “anti-genocide posts and placards.”

“Leaving the front door ajar so the police don’t have to use force when
they come and get me,” she wrote at the time.

Her arrest comes as British police have threatened a renewed crackdown on
pro-Palestinian demonstrations, warning they will arrest anyone chanting
the phrase “globalize the intifada” or displaying it on placards.

Intifada, an Arabic word meaning uprising, is used by Palestinians to
describe resistance to Israel’s occupation of their land.

The Metropolitan Police made their first arrests linked to the chant at a
pro-Palestine demonstration in London on Sunday, claiming the slogan
constitutes “a call for violence against Jewish people.”

Pro-Israel lobby groups are pressing for a harsher crackdown on
demonstrations and have even suggested that chants such as “Free, free
Palestine” inherently incite violence.

Pro-Palestinian protests have surged across London over the past two
years, amid Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and in response to the UK
government’s military and diplomatic support for Israel.
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