The High Court has quashed a decision by a General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) fitness-to-practise (FtP) committee that had ruled that comments made by a pharmacist could not be considered antisemitic. The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) (/article/news/pharmacy-regulator-s-fitness-to-practise-decision-in-anti-semitism-case-referred-to-the-high-court-by-professional-standards-authority) had appealed against the FtP committee’s decision to issue pharmacist Nazim Hussain Ali with a warning (https://www.pharmacyregulation.org/sites/default/files/determinations/ali_nazim_2041615_principal_hearing_05-11-2020.pdf) , following comments he made at an Al Quds Day rally held in central London on 18 June 2017. The committee had considered whether the remarks could be interpreted as antisemitic and offensive. It ruled that the comments were offensive and amounted to “serious misconduct” , and found Ali “to be impaired on the public interest ground” . However, the committee said that “most reasonable people” , when taking into account the context in which the comments were made, would not conclude that the comments made by Ali were antisemitic.
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