A surgeon has been struck off the UK medical register after calling an acquaintance a "Jewish c***" and saying he was "regretful enough rats were not liquidated at Auschwitz".
Manoj Sen, who had been practising in the NHS for 25 years, made the comments on Facebook, three days after the October 7 massacre in 2023.
Replying to comments by a Jewish Facebook user, Sen called him “vermin” and a “rodent".
He wrote: “When dealing with circumcised vermin like you, not even the strongest measures will help... You belong in the flames of a crematorium."
He also wrote: “Die Juden sind unsere Ungluck”, which means "Jews are our misfortune" - the slogan of Der Stürmer, the antisemitic Holocaust-era German newspaper.
Sen was arrested the following month for racially and religiously aggravated harassment.
Later, he told the General Medical Council (GMC): “I must have lost my senses as in the heat of the moment. I made wrongful and injudicious remarks – for which I have apologised in public on Facebook as well as privately to the police.”
Sen was due to attend a hearing last month but told the GMC he had "no wish to participate".
Nigel Grundy, Counsel for the GMC, Nine Chambers’, said: “[It is] the most serious, upper end of the spectrum of discrimination”, adding that striking him off the medical register was the only suitable punishment.
The GMC’s tribunal came to the conclusion: “The degree of hostility expressed in his comments is fundamentally incompatible with the duty of a doctor to treat patients equally and without discrimination.
"Only erasure can properly mark the boundary: this type of conduct is incompatible with ongoing registration.”
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