A doctor named in a British newspaper investigation into antisemitic social media posts by NHS consultants worked in the Isle of Man health service until April 2020, the Isle of Man Government has confirmed.
The Telegraph reported last week that Dr Sajid Aslam, who has also worked at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, used a comment beneath a LinkedIn post to describe Zionists as rapists and paedophiles, using disguised spellings including “a bunch of r@p!sts”. The newspaper also reported that he had shared the false conspiracy theory that Israel was behind the 9/11 attacks.
The posts were identified by the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), whose earlier complaint about the Liverpool-based Abdullah Quilliam Society, named after the Victorian convert to Islam who was educated at King William’s College, led to an official warning to that charity in 2025.
Responding to questions from Community.IM, a representative of the Isle of Man Government said Dr Aslam, whose professional profiles describe him as a cardiologist, worked briefly in the Island’s health service on a short-term agency basis. That engagement ended in April 2020, before Manx Care was established.
The Government representative said: “The social media comments reported by the Telegraph were made some time after Dr Aslam’s engagement with the Isle of Man’s health service had ended.”
According to The Telegraph, Dr Aslam trained at King’s College London and the University of Aberdeen, and was briefly suspended in 2017 for falsifying a reference. He remains registered with the General Medical Council (GMC), with the locum agency Interact Medical acting as his designated body for revalidation.
The Government representative said all staff appointed to Manx health services, including locum doctors, must meet the professional, regulatory and employment standards in place at the time of appointment. It said checks include verification of registration and licence to practise, references, employment history, identity and right to work, criminal record checks where required, and any restrictions or findings recorded by the relevant regulator.
The statement did not say whether the 2017 suspension was known when Dr Aslam was engaged, or whether any concerns were raised about his conduct while he worked on the Island.
“There is no place for discrimination, racism, antisemitism, or any other form of prejudice within our health and care services,” the Government representative said, adding that concerns about the conduct of healthcare professionals are considered through employment, governance or regulatory processes.
The other three doctors named are consultants at NHS hospitals in Surrey, Keighley and Birmingham. Their posts included material praising or justifying the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023, and apparent justification of the October 2025 attack on Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester, in which two worshippers were killed. The Surrey consultant has apologised, saying he reposted material without properly reading it.
The investigation has renewed criticism of the GMC’s handling of antisemitism complaints. Figures reported by The Telegraph show the regulator received 732 such complaints between 7 October 2023 and 31 January 2026. Of those, 651 were closed at triage and only six resulted in action, with 25 still in progress.
The GMC told the newspaper that antisemitism is completely unacceptable and that concerns raised with it are handled appropriately. Damian Hinds, the British shadow health secretary, described the examples uncovered as horrifying.
The Telegraph said it had approached Dr Aslam for comment.