This post was originally published on this site.
Chloe AslettYorkshire
A former Apprentice contestant has been struck off the medical register after a tribunal found he posted antisemitic, racist and sexist posts on social media.
Dr Asif Munaf, 37, from Sheffield, posted or reposted a total of 36 “seriously offensive” comments on X between October 2023 and July 2025, a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) hearing was told.
Munaf, who did not attend the tribunal and was not legally represented, denied the posts were antisemitic at a previous hearing, adding they were said “in the heat of the emotion”.
According to the General Medical Council (GMC), Munaf’s posts included Holocaust denial, conspiracy theories and rhetoric equating Jews with Nazism.
He appeared on the 2024 edition of The Apprentice but was dropped from The Apprentice: You’re Fired! after he was accused of posting antisemitic comments on social media.
Harriet Tighe, lawyer for the GMC, said one post was accompanied by an image of a flag including the Star of David above a swastika.
Munaf also reposted a comment which referred to boxer Floyd Mayweather using a derogatory racial slur.
In a separate post, Munaf argued that certain professions should be restricted by gender and criticised female empowerment.
The tribunal concluded 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”.
He had previously said the comments were “not befitting of someone as educated as myself and were said in the heat of the emotion”.
Tighe said he had demonstrated a “deep-seated and ongoing attitudinal issue” and there had been no “insight or efforts to remediate”.
‘Flagrant’ breaches
In a separate allegation, the tribunal heard he provided a sick note to a patient in November 2024 while suspended from practicing medical duties.
In the same year, he walked out of a five-day locum cardiologist placement at University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire without notice or good reason, the tribunal found.
The sick note and abandonment of placement were “isolated incidents of these types of behaviours”, the hearing concluded.
However, it found he had committed “clear and flagrant” breaches of medical guidance.
MPTS chairwoman Kate Kirwin said Munaf’s conduct on social media was “sustained and repeated”.
“The seriousness of the facts found proven and associated ongoing risk to public protection mean the effect of Dr Munaf continuing to hold registration would undermine public confidence in the profession,” she said.
Following the conclusion of the tribunal, a spokesperson for the GMC said: “There is no place for antisemitism, sexism or misogyny in medicine, and we will always seek to strike off doctors for such conduct.”
Additional reporting by PA Media.
