Apprentice star in anti-Semitism storm accused at medical tribunal over ‘racist and sexist social media posts’, and ‘dishonestly offering’ sick notes

A former NHS doctor and contestant on BBC show The Apprentice made a series of antisemitic, racist and sexist social media comments, a medical tribunal heard.

Dr Asif Munaf, 37, who appeared in the 2024 series, faces a string of complaints about his conduct.

He failed to appear before a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) misconduct hearing today, which was given details of the allegations against him.

Munaf – who also uses the name Mohammed – reposted comments on X, formerly known as Twitter, claiming Israel had ‘forfeited any right to exist’, was a ‘Nazi state’ and that Zionists are not Jews but ‘today’s Nazis’.

Other posts claimed that Jews ‘have no limits to their depravity’ are ‘sick in the head’ and are ‘born with an inherent ability to deceive’.

One post, in June 2025, claimed: ‘9/11 (the terror attack of September 11, 2001 on New York and Washington) wasn’t an inside job. Let’s call it for what it really is. A Jewish job.’

There were further comments about an ‘inherent Jewish supremacy’, the Jewish ‘victim complex’ and Jews having ‘a genocidal impulse’.

One sickening comment made reference to the Nazi holocaust and North London bagel shops and read: ‘Does the obsession with baking and ovens explain the uncontested and unproven claims of 6 million Jews and 40 beheaded babies in ovens?’

Dr Asif Munaf is accused of making anti-Semitic, racist and sexist posts on social media

The doctor’s posts and reposts, dating from 2023 to 2025, also included a racist term to describe ex-world champion boxer Floyd Mayweather and claimed he’d been in contact with Israel Defence Forces (IDF).

Further comments were aimed at women, saying most men ‘cannot tell the difference between an asset and a liability’ and this was reason why many were ‘broke and miserable’.

Women, ‘should not be pilots’, the doctor said, and he commented: ‘Female ‘empowerment’ is one of the great tricks of Satan. Islam gives us the blueprint. When will the world wake up?’

Harriet Tighe, for the GMC, said the posts were ‘objectively antisemitic and/or seriously offensive, and motivated by racial or religious hostility and/or prejudice against Jews’.

They were also ‘racist’ and ‘objectively sexist’, she added.

The tribunal heard that Munaf had chosen not to attend the hearing or provide any witness statements.

But at an earlier interim orders tribunal hearing, he did not dispute posting or reposting the comments.

He denied they were antisemitic but accepted they were ‘not befitting of someone as educated as myself’ and posted ‘in the heat of the emotion’.

Munaf also faces claims of acting inappropriately and dishonestly providing sick notes

Munaf was fired from episode 7 of The Apprentice’s 2024 series – and axed from spin-off show You’re Fired, after his online postings came to light

The doctor is accused of failing to comply with conditions placed on his registration in August 2024 not to ‘abuse, discriminate against, bully, harass or deliberately target any individual or group’ when expressing his beliefs on social media.

Further charges relate to when he was booked to provide locum services as a cardiology specialist registrar at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust in January 2024.

It is claimed he ‘acted inappropriately’ by vanishing just days into the role.

He also allegedly ‘dishonestly’ provided a sick note to a patient in November 2024.

Munaf set up the online service Dr Sick Ltd in 2024 which claimed to ‘beat the GP wait’ and offer sick notes ‘in as little as two hours’.

Without any face-to-face or phone consultation, it was reported, the company sold sick notes enabling customers five months off work for Covid, six weeks for anxiety over a sick pet, and four weeks of home working to enable them to go on holiday abroad.

Munaf also ran the now defunct University of Masculinity website which was criticised for its controversial postings and retweeting of posts by Andrew Tate.

Munaf was fired from the main show during week seven of the series aired in 2024 after his team lost a task.

After his social media posts came to light and a complaint made by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the BBC pulled his appearance on spin-off show You’re Fired, which normally features the candidate axed from the business contest each week.

He was given an interim suspension in May 2025.