Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah accuses regulator of seeking ‘politically acceptable’ outcome after allegations dismissed
A surgeon who was cleared by a tribunal of alleged antisemitism and support for terrorism has accused his regulator of seeking a “politically acceptable” outcome after it announced it would appeal against the decision to the high court.
Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, who gave testimony to the international criminal court on Israel’s assault on Gaza and is the rector of the University of Glasgow, was cleared of misconduct by the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) in January.
But the decision to appeal by the General Medical Council (GMC), which brought the case after a complaint by the lobby group UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI), means he is trying to crowdfund £150,000 to defend himself again.
“When the MPTS rejected the allegations, I felt that a two-year period of continuous harassment and attempts to undermine my credibility, including my evidence before the ICC [international criminal court] and ICJ [international court of justice], had finally come to an end.” said Abu-Sittah.
