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The Independent
05-03-2025
- The Independent
Second Sydney nurse who appeared in video threatening Israeli patients charged
Police have charged a second Sydney nurse over a video posted online that allegedly made threats to Israeli patients. Ahmad Rashad Nadir, a 27-year-old nurse who worked at Bankstown-Lidcombe hospital, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend, and possessing a prohibited drug, the Sutherland police said. Mr Nadir has been granted conditional bail and was due in court on 19 March. Mr Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, 26, were suspended from their duties at the hospital over antisemitism after a video of them was posted online in which they allegedly threatened to deny treatment to Israeli patients or kill them. Ms Labdeh was arrested in February and charged with the federal offences of threatening violence to a group, using a carriage service to threaten to kill and using a carriage service to menace and harass, police said. The charges carried a potential maximum penalty of 22 years in prison. Mr Nadir was interviewed by the police earlier and has reportedly apologised for the video last month through his lawyer. The hospital examined patient records and found no evidence that the nurses had harmed patients. In the video, the nurses, wearing their uniforms, purportedly engaged in a conversation on the chat platform Chatruletka with Jewish content creator Max Veifer. After learning that Mr Veifer was from Israel, one of the nurses allegedly said if patients from the country came to their hospital, she would not treat them. "I won't treat them, I'll kill them," she said. The other nurse, a man, said: "Eventually you're going to get killed and you're going to go to (hell)." The incident comes amid a wave of antisemitic attacks targeting Jews in Australia in the backdrop of Israel's war on Gaza. Recent months have seen attacks on synagogues, buildings and cars belonging to Jews across the country as well as the discovery of a caravan carrying explosives and a list of Jewish targets in Sydney. New South Wales police commissioner Karen Webb said the antisemitism taskforce called the Strike Force Pearl has arrested 15 people and laid a total of 78 charges. 'I must commend the work Strike Force Pearl detectives are doing to investigate, charge and put these individuals before the courts,' she said on Wednesday, according to The Guardian. 'There is a tremendous amount of dedication and hard work going into all these investigations. 'Detectives have overcome many challenges – including huge public expectation – to put these individuals before the court,' Ms Webb said. The duo have been barred by the Australian health practitioner watchdog from working in the profession nationwide 'in any context'.
BBC News
26-02-2025
- BBC News
Nurse charged over video that referenced harming Israeli patients
A Sydney nurse who was suspended over a video in which she allegedly made threats against Israeli patients has been charged by Abu Lebdeh, 26, is facing three charges: threatening violence to a group, using a carriage service to threaten to kill, and using a carriage service to harass or cause Abu Lebdeh and another man were both suspended from their duties at Bankstown Hospital after the video - filmed on an anonymous online platform which pairs people randomly for a chat - was released say there is "no evidence" the pair harmed patients. In the footage, which appeared to have been filmed inside a hospital and was published by an Israeli content creator, Ms Abu Lebdeh and Ahmad Rashad Nadir allegedly bragged about refusing to treat Israeli patients, killing them, and said they would go to video spread widely online and caused public outcry, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese describing it as "disgusting" and "vile".New South Wales Police Commissioner Karen Webb said the charges are a significant breakthrough in what has been a complicated investigation."Detectives must be commended for acting swiftly under enormous pressure and public expectation," she Abu Lebdeh was granted bail and will return to court on 19 March. Mr Nadir has not been charged. Earlier this month Australia passed tougher laws against hate crimes following a wave of unrelated antisemitic recent months, there have been a several of arson and graffiti incidents involving homes, cars, and synagogues in Jewish communities across Australia.A caravan packed with power gel explosives that police warned had the potential to cause a "mass casualty event" was found in New South Wales in January, alongside a document with antisemitic sentiments and a list of Jewish targets in Sydney.
Yahoo
17-02-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
Australia's integration failures may be putting people's lives at risk
Australians are proud of their healthcare system, and – unlike the situation here – that pride generally isn't misplaced. Australian health outcomes are usually mentioned in the same breath as those of Singapore, Switzerland, and Japan. This means the national response to a pair of Sydney nurses stating with some glee to what they must have known was a global audience that they preferred the Harold Shipman approach to Israeli patients has been about what you'd expect. Asked what she'd do when confronted with an Israeli patient, the female nurse responded, 'I wouldn't treat them. I'd kill them.' The male nurse, meanwhile, boasted that 'you have no idea how many Israelis came to this hospital, and I just sent them to Jahannam' (Arabic, roughly, for 'Hell' or 'their Maker'.) After the video went viral and the two were identified as Ahmad Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh (the pair have since apologised), the country exploded. 'Don't bother turning up for work tomorrow,' said New South Wales Health Minister Ryan Park as he sacked them live on air. 'I won't allow a sliver of light for any of them to be allowed to work in NSW Health again.' This response was representative: politicians and civil society expectorated as one, in part because to attack something at which Australians excel is an attack on the country's sense of itself. Australian tourists used to make sly jokes about the 'diversity bollards' they saw while travelling in European countries. I remember Australian solicitors working on cross-border deals sniggering about metal detectors posted at the entrances to US high schools all the while informing you of where it wasn't safe to drink the water. The video shattered this distinctively Australian self-confidence. The story then proceeded apace. It emerged Nadir was born in Afghanistan but permitted to enter Australia aged 12 as a refugee. It didn't take long for intrepid internet sleuths to turn up mawkish commentary about how well he'd integrated and what a wonderful migrant success story he was, complete with pictures of him in the same scrubs he was wearing while making cut-throat hand gestures. It is difficult to overstate the seriousness of this. There are no asylum seekers in the pejorative sense in Australia. If someone born in Afghanistan lives in Australia, it means he's a genuine refugee. He will also have been assessed as such using Australia's in-house rules, not those developed by the United Nations. Australia is especially good at selecting refugee families, using its strongly conformist education system to promote integration. Abu Lebdeh, meanwhile, comes from Western Sydney's Lebanese Muslim community, the country's only integration failure: to this day, an arc of suburbs across the region are plagued with organised crime (mainly outlaw motorcycle gangs and drugs). NSW Police and senior medical staff at Bankstown Hospital are now combing through patient records to establish whether the country really is dealing with two hospital-based alleged mass murderers. Broaden your horizons with award-winning British journalism. Try The Telegraph free for 1 month with unlimited access to our award-winning website, exclusive app, money-saving offers and more.
Telegraph
17-02-2025
- Health
- Telegraph
Australia's integration failures may be putting people's lives at risk
Australians are proud of their healthcare system, and – unlike the situation here – that pride generally isn't misplaced. Australian health outcomes are usually mentioned in the same breath as those of Singapore, Switzerland, and Japan. This means the national response to a pair of Sydney nurses stating with some glee to what they must have known was a global audience that they preferred the Harold Shipman approach to Israeli patients has been about what you'd expect. Asked what she'd do when confronted with an Israeli patient, the female nurse responded, 'I wouldn't treat them. I'd kill them.' The male nurse, meanwhile, boasted that 'you have no idea how many Israelis came to this hospital, and I just sent them to Jahannam ' (Arabic, roughly, for 'Hell' or 'their Maker'.) After the video went viral and the two were identified as Ahmad Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh (the pair have since apologised), the country exploded. 'Don't bother turning up for work tomorrow,' said New South Wales Health Minister Ryan Park as he sacked them live on air. 'I won't allow a sliver of light for any of them to be allowed to work in NSW Health again.' This response was representative: politicians and civil society expectorated as one, in part because to attack something at which Australians excel is an attack on the country's sense of itself. Australian tourists used to make sly jokes about the 'diversity bollards' they saw while travelling in European countries. I remember Australian solicitors working on cross-border deals sniggering about metal detectors posted at the entrances to US high schools all the while informing you of where it wasn't safe to drink the water. The video shattered this distinctively Australian self-confidence. The story then proceeded apace. It emerged Nadir was born in Afghanistan but permitted to enter Australia aged 12 as a refugee. It didn't take long for intrepid internet sleuths to turn up mawkish commentary about how well he'd integrated and what a wonderful migrant success story he was, complete with pictures of him in the same scrubs he was wearing while making cut-throat hand gestures. It is difficult to overstate the seriousness of this. There are no asylum seekers in the pejorative sense in Australia. If someone born in Afghanistan lives in Australia, it means he's a genuine refugee. He will also have been assessed as such using Australia's in-house rules, not those developed by the United Nations. Australia is especially good at selecting refugee families, using its strongly conformist education system to promote integration. Abu Lebdeh, meanwhile, comes from Western Sydney's Lebanese Muslim community, the country's only integration failure: to this day, an arc of suburbs across the region are plagued with organised crime (mainly outlaw motorcycle gangs and drugs). NSW Police and senior medical staff at Bankstown Hospital are now combing through patient records to establish whether the country really is dealing with two hospital-based alleged mass murderers.
