A newly-elected Green councillor who is also an NHS GP is being investigated by the General Medical Council after The Spectator revealed that she repeatedly attacked ‘Zios’ and called on people to ‘burn Zionism to the ground.’

Rebecca Jones, a doctor at the Hilly Fields practice in Lewisham, and councillor for the nearby Blackheath ward, announced on her Facebook page that the medical regulator has ‘opened an investigation into my fitness to practice. It’s one of the worst bits of professional news a doctor can receive.’ The GMC can suspend or prohibit a doctor from practice.

Jones remains defiant, however, claiming that it is simply an attempt to ‘censor and silence doctors who speak out against Israel’s genocidal regime… We must fight, if only for our little corner of justice.’ Jones described our accurate reporting as a ‘smear’ and said she had been targeted because she was standing for the Green party and ‘oppose[s] Zionism’.

Let’s remind Dr Jones of what she said on her social media channels. She posts on Facebook and Instagram as ‘The Vegan Doctor,’ complete with a personal logo of her in a stethoscope and, er, a balaclava. She has a separate personal account, Rebecca Ellen Jones. The offending posts were done from the Vegan........

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