LONDON: An Indian-origin surgeon who worked in the NHS for 25 years has been struck off the UK medical register for making antisemitic comments on social media, including calling a Jewish man “circumcised vermin” and a “Jewish rodent”.Manoj Sen, who qualified as a doctor in 1983 with an MBBS from the Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata, (Calcutta Medical College), and moved to the UK in 1985, wrote on Facebook in response to Mr A, on October 10 2023, three days after the Nova festival massacre: “When dealing with circumcised vermin like you, not even the strongest measures will help,” adding that he was “regretful enough rats were not liquidated at Auschwitz”.In the same rant, Sen called Mr A a “Jewish c**t” and “Jewboy” and also wrote “Die Juden sind unsere Ungluck (The Jews are our misfortune)”. “Good thing he is no longer in a respectful place like India. He belongs in the flames of a crematorium,” he said of Mr A. At the time Sen was working as a surgeon at Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow.Mr A raised a complaint about Sen with the General Medical Council (GMC) and the police. Sen was arrested and issued a police caution.The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service concluded that Sen’s conduct amounted to serious misconduct and that immediate suspension and erasure from the medical register were the only appropriate sanction.The tribunal found his comments were antisemitic and seriously offensive, especially his reference to Auschwitz and a crematorium, which, the tribunal said, “went far beyond any acceptable or lawful expression of opinion”.“The language used suggested a deep hostility towards Jews as a group, rather than merely a personal attack on the complainant,” the tribunal said.The tribunal noted there was no written apology and “the degree of hostility expressed in his comments is fundamentally incompatible with the duty of a doctor to treat patients equally”, and that he had brought the medical profession into disrepute.On August 13 Sen told the GMC he did not wish to participate in the hearing and said “to go ahead and good luck.”In an email from Sen to the GMC in Feb 2024, he wrote: “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. Those remarks are entirely out of character.”