Former NHS doctor and The Apprentice star Dr Asif Munaf has been struck off the medical register after a tribunal found he posted antisemitic, racist and sexist content on social media. The 37-year-old, who appeared in the 2024 series of the BBC show, failed to attend the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service hearing or provide witness statements.
The tribunal heard that Munaf shared posts on X (formerly Twitter) including claims that Israel had 'forfeited any right to exist' and was a 'Nazi state', and that Zionists are 'today's Nazis'. Another post stated that Jewish people 'have no limits to their depravity' and are 'born with an inherent ability to deceive'. A post from June 2025 read: '9/11 wasn't an inside job. Let's call it for what it really is. A Jewish job.'
The posts also included a racist slur directed at former world champion boxer Floyd Mayweather and sexist comments suggesting women 'should not be pilots' and that female empowerment was a 'trick from Satan'. The tribunal found 36 occasions of objectively antisemitic, racist, sexist or seriously offensive content.
Harriet Tighe, representing the General Medical Council, said the posts were 'objectively antisemitic and/or seriously offensive, and motivated by racial or religious hostility and/or prejudice'. Munaf had previously denied the posts were antisemitic, claiming they were made 'in the heat of the emotion'.
The Board of Deputies of British Jews complained to the BBC about Munaf's 'despicable antisemitism', leading to his removal from the spin-off show You're Fired. In January 2024, Munaf issued an apology, stating: 'It was not my intention to offend anyone.' A GMC spokesperson said: 'There is no place for antisemitism, sexism or misogyny in medicine.'
