Randy Fine wants his South Florida dentist license revoked because of anti-Semitic sermons

A North Miami dentist who is also an imam at a local mosque should have his license revoked because of anti-Semitic comments that incite violence against Jews, according to Rep. Randy Fine.

Fine, a Republican from Brevard County and the only Jewish Republican in the Legislature, wrote a letter to the Florida Board of Dentistryand calls on members to suspend the license of Fadi Kablawi.

“Practicing medicine in Florida is a privilege – not a right – and as chairman of the House Health and Human Services Committee, I call on you, Dr. “To immediately revoke Kablawi’s license and begin a thorough investigation into his practice.” Fine wrote To Jose MelladoChairman of the Board of Dentistry.

In the letter, Fine cited several instances in which Kablawi made anti-Semitic statements in his sermons, all of which came after Hamas’s Oct. 7 terrorist attacks against Israel, which killed more than 1,400 people and took more than 200 civilians hostage.

Those comments included calling Jews “brothers of monkeys and pigs” during an April 26 sermon. “O Allah, destroy the tyrannical Jews,” Fine quoted Kablawi as saying. In excerpts from the sermon are circulating on social media Kablawi says the Israeli army is “worse than the Nazis” and suggests that Jewish people harvest organs from Palestinian children.

Kablawi has had at least one run-in with the law. In 2017, then-Attorney General Pam Bondis Medicaid Fraud Unit accused him of defrauding the federal program by charging patients full amount for some procedures while simultaneously billing Medicaid. The outcome of these charges is unclear.

The Board of Dentistry meets four times a year. The next meeting is scheduled for Friday in Jacksonville, but Kablawi’s license does not appear to be there on the agenda.

Fine called on the board to take action because he does not believe Jewish patients would be safe at Kablawi’s practice. In fact, Fine ended his letter by saying, “The lives of some Florida Jews may be at stake.”

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