A former contestant on The Apprentice has been accused of sharing antisemitic, racist and sexist posts on social media, a medical tribunal has heard.
The BBC faced mounting pressure to drop Asif Munaf, a doctor from Sheffield, from the long-running reality show fronted by Lord Alan Sugar in 2024.
Munaf continued to make offensive comments after receiving a BBC-organised diversity and inclusion training course. He was subsequently dropped from the spin-off show You’re Fired!
The 37-year-old is now said to have posted and reposted ‘seriously offensive’ comments from his X account from between October 2023 and July 2025, according to the General Medical Council (GMC) tribunal.
He has reportedly not attended the tribunal and is not legally represented, but has denied that the posts in question were antisemitic, according to the BBC.
According to the GMC, Munaf posted several antisemitic statements, including Holocaust denial, conspiracy theories and comments which equated Jews with Nazism.
The lawyer for the GMC Harriet Tighe said one post included an image of the Star of David above a swastika.
Tighe detailed a number of the posts in question, which also included a racial slur against boxer Floyd Mayweather and a comment in which he wrote: ‘Female empowerment is one of the great tricks of Satan,’ according to The Sun.
At a previous hearing, he said the posts were ‘not befitting of someone as educated as myself and were said in the heat of the emotion’. The tribunal continues.
The medic apologised in 2024 over his offensive posts and was given ‘specialist training’ by the BBC.
A spokesperson for the BBC show at the time said that after filming took place, they were made aware of ‘concerns over social media posts that Asif had made after he had left the process’.
‘As soon as we were alerted, we took immediate action and spoke to Asif in detail on this,’ they said in 2024.
‘Asif took part in specialised training to understand why his posts may cause offence.’
They added: ‘We are committed to providing an inclusive environment on and off screen.’
In a statement, Munaf apologised for ‘any offence caused’ by his social media posts.
‘It was not my intention to offend anyone, and I am of course open to all views,’ he said. ‘The beliefs I hold and have shared are based on the values that I was brought up with.’
Metro contacted the BBC, which declined to comment.
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