Asif Munaf
Introduction
Asif Munaf is a doctor from Sheffield, England, and a former contestant on the BBC series The Apprentice who appeared in the 2024 edition of the show. On 14 January 2026 he was struck off the medical register after a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) tribunal found that his fitness to practise was impaired by misconduct, on findings that he posted or reposted 36 “seriously offensive” comments on X (Twitter) between October 2023 and July 2025 that were antisemitic, racist and sexist. The tribunal record names him as Mohammed Munaf (General Medical Council registration number 7290599), while press coverage of the same hearing identifies him as Dr Asif Munaf.
Background Information
Munaf, 37, is from Sheffield. He appeared on the 2024 edition of The Apprentice but was dropped from the companion show The Apprentice: You’re Fired! after he was accused of posting antisemitic comments on social media.
At the time of the tribunal he was a registered doctor, listed by the General Medical Council (GMC) under registration number 7290599. The disciplinary proceedings against him also drew on his conduct during a locum placement as a cardiologist at University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire.
The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation
Adjudicated vs. alleged. The findings below are findings of the Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service, which found all charges proved on the civil standard; they are regulatory findings, not criminal convictions, and no criminal proceedings were reported. Munaf disputed the characterisation of his posts at a previous hearing.
The central charge was that Munaf posted and reposted content on his X account on 36 occasions between October 2023 and July 2025 that was antisemitic, racist and sexist, and motivated by racial or religious hostility. According to the GMC, his posts included Holocaust denial, conspiracy theories and rhetoric equating Jews with Nazism. Harriet Tighe, lawyer for the GMC, told the hearing that one post was accompanied by an image of a flag including the Star of David above a swastika. He also reposted a comment which referred to boxer Floyd Mayweather using a derogatory racial slur, and in a separate post 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”. At a previous hearing, Munaf denied the posts were antisemitic, saying they were “not befitting of someone as educated as myself and were said in the heat of the emotion”.
Three further sets of allegations concerned his conduct as a doctor. The tribunal heard he provided a sick note to a patient in November 2024 while suspended from practising medical duties; the determination records that he dishonestly issued the sick note while his licence to practise was suspended under an interim order. In the same year, he walked out of a five-day locum cardiologist placement at University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire without notice or good reason. And he posted on X in breach of the conditions imposed by his interim orders. The hearing concluded that the sick note and the abandonment of the placement were “isolated incidents of these types of behaviours”, but found he had committed “clear and flagrant” breaches of medical guidance.
Munaf did not attend the tribunal and was not legally represented. The tribunal found he failed to engage with the proceedings, breached both his interim order conditions and his interim order suspension — demonstrating, in the determination’s words, a continual disregard for the regulator and its purpose — and found no evidence of insight or remediation. Tighe said he had demonstrated a “deep-seated and ongoing attitudinal issue” and that there had been no “insight or efforts to remediate”.
Public Reaction and Consequences
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.”
In mitigation, the tribunal noted Munaf’s good character but gave it extremely limited weight, given that the offensive posts continued over a two-year period, including after regulatory action began and in breach of interim conditions. The behaviour on placement and the dishonest sick note were treated as isolated incidents of those types of behaviour. Aggravating factors were his failure to engage with the proceedings and his breaches of both the interim order conditions and the interim suspension.
Current Status
Munaf is struck off the medical register. The sanction — the regulator calls it “erasure” — was directed on 14 January 2026, the final day of a substantive hearing that ran from 5 to 14 January 2026. Erasure removes him from the Medical Register, and he is no longer permitted to practise as a doctor in the UK. An immediate order of suspension was imposed alongside the erasure. Erasure can be reviewed after a minimum of five years, but is otherwise indefinite.
Impact on Their Career/Life
The strike-off ended Munaf’s ability to work as a doctor in the United Kingdom, capping a two-year sequence in which the offensive posts continued even after regulatory action began. The tribunal’s finding that there was no evidence of insight or remediation left the erasure as its sanction, and the direction removed the registration he held under GMC number 7290599. His public profile beyond medicine had already been curtailed when he was dropped from The Apprentice: You’re Fired! over the accusations of antisemitic social media posts. Any return to the register lies at least five years away and depends on a successful review of the erasure.