Mohammed Munaf
Introduction
Mohammed Munaf is a former UK doctor whose name was erased from the medical register — struck off — by a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) tribunal on 14 January 2026, at the end of a substantive hearing that had run from 5 January. The tribunal found his fitness to practise impaired by reason of misconduct: over a period of almost two years he had posted or reposted antisemitic, racist and sexist content on his X (Twitter) account on 36 occasions, he had left a locum placement without notice or good reason, he had posted in breach of interim orders imposed by his regulator, and he had dishonestly issued a sick note while his licence to practise was suspended. Erasure removes a practitioner from the register entirely: he is no longer permitted to practise medicine in the United Kingdom.
Background Information
Munaf was a doctor registered with the General Medical Council (GMC), identified in the published determination by registration number 7290599; the tribunal record names him Mohammed Munaf and does not set out his specialty, employer or clinical career. Press coverage of the same January 2026 hearing — reported by the BBC on 14 January 2026 — identifies the doctor struck off for the same 36 posts as Dr Asif Munaf, a 37-year-old from Sheffield who appeared on the 2024 edition of the BBC series The Apprentice. The correspondence rests on the identical fact pattern: 36 posts or reposts on X between October 2023 and July 2025, found antisemitic, racist and sexist, an erasure directed on 14 January 2026, and a doctor who was absent and unrepresented throughout. That identification is made in press coverage rather than in the determination itself, which uses only the name Mohammed Munaf; it is stated here on the BBC’s account of the case, not as an independent finding. On that identification, his television career had already collided with the allegations before the tribunal convened: he was dropped from the companion show The Apprentice: You’re Fired! after he was accused of posting antisemitic comments on social media.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Allegations vs. findings. No criminal proceedings are recorded in the determination. The findings are regulatory findings by an MPTS tribunal on the civil standard (the balance of probabilities) and are not criminal convictions.
The conduct at the heart of the case was a two-year pattern of posting. Between October 2023 and July 2025, the tribunal found, Munaf posted or reposted content on his X account on 36 occasions that was antisemitic, racist, sexist, seriously offensive, and motivated in whole or in part by racial or religious hostility. According to the GMC, the posts included Holocaust denial, conspiracy theories and rhetoric equating Jews with Nazism, and one post was accompanied by an image of a flag showing the Star of David above a swastika. He also reposted a comment which referred to boxer Floyd Mayweather using a derogatory racial slur, and in a separate post argued that certain professions should be restricted by gender and criticised female empowerment.
Three further charges completed the case. The tribunal found he had left a five-day locum cardiologist placement at University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire without notice or good reason. It found he had continued to post on X in breach of the conditions of interim orders made while the case proceeded. And it found he had dishonestly issued a sick note to a patient in November 2024, at a time when his licence to practise was suspended under an interim order. Munaf did not attend the hearing and was not legally represented, and the tribunal found all charges proved.
Public Reaction and Consequences
Munaf’s own response, given at a previous hearing, was to deny that the posts were antisemitic, saying they were made “in the heat of the emotion” and were “not befitting of someone as educated as myself”. The tribunal did not accept that framing, concluding the posts were “objectively antisemitic, racist, sexist, seriously offensive and/or motivated (in whole or in part) by racial or religious hostility and/or prejudice”.
In mitigation, the tribunal noted his good character but gave it extremely limited weight, because the offensive posts had continued over two years, including after regulatory action began and in breach of interim conditions; the placement abandonment and the dishonest sick note it treated as isolated incidents of those types of behaviour. In aggravation, it found he had failed to engage with the proceedings, had breached both his interim order conditions and his interim suspension — demonstrating a continual disregard for the regulator and its purpose — and had shown no evidence of insight or remediation. MPTS chair Kate Kirwin described his social media conduct as “sustained and repeated”, saying the seriousness of the facts found proven and the ongoing risk to public protection meant his continuing to hold registration would undermine public confidence in the profession. The tribunal directed erasure from the medical register and imposed an immediate order so the erasure took effect at once. A GMC spokesperson said there was no place for antisemitism, sexism or misogyny in medicine.
Current Status
Munaf is struck off the GMC register. The tribunal’s decision of 14 January 2026 took the form of erasure with an immediate order of suspension, so removal from the register was not delayed by the appeal period. Erasure is otherwise indefinite, though it can be reviewed after a minimum of five years. The determination records no insight or remediation, and his failure to engage with the proceedings was itself treated as an aggravating factor.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The erasure ends his career as a doctor in the United Kingdom: removed from the register, he is no longer permitted to practise, and because the tribunal judged the case too serious for suspension, the removal took effect immediately. By the time of the hearing his working life had already contracted — the BBC’s identification of him records that his Apprentice exposure was cut short when he was dropped from You’re Fired! over the antisemitism accusations in 2024, and the abandonment of the Coventry locum placement showed placements slipping away even before the sanction. Any application to return to the register can be considered only after the five-year minimum review period has elapsed, and the tribunal’s finding of no insight and its record of non-engagement give little indication of a path back.