Ex-Imperial lecturer struck off NHS due to antisemitic social media comments

Ex-Imperial lecturer Manoj Sen has been struck off the UK medical register due to antisemitic comments on social media.  

A few days after the October 7 attacks on Israel, Sen had responded to a post on Facebook by “‘Mr A”, calling him a “Jewish cunt” and “Jewboy”, and writing “he belongs in the flames of a crematorium.” 

Sen, a qualified surgeon, was an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer in Imperial’s Faculty of Medicine until 2020, and worked in the NHS for 25 years. 

He was arrested following the incident and served a caution for “racially/religiously aggravated harassment/alarm/distress by words/writing” and for “sending a communication/article of an indecent/offensive nature.” 

In a July fitness to practice hearing, the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service found some of Sen’s comments to be “objectively antisemitic”, “seriously offensive”, and “motivated (in whole or in part) by hostility towards and/or prejudice against Jews”.  

As a sentence, the tribunal imposed an erasure from the Medical Register, with an immediate order of suspension until that erasure takes effect.  Sen, who was already retired at the time of the sentence, did not attend the hearing. 

Sen did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In a 2023 email to Felix following his arrest, he had written: “I sincerely regretted and apologized for any feelings I may have caused to anyone, specifically the Jewish people.”