Two Sydney nurses were stood down after a viral video showed them discussing threats to kill Israeli patients. The Executive Council of Australian Jewry condemned the incident, calling it a 'wake-up call' to rampant antisemitism in Australia.
The peak body of Australian Jewry has condemned two Sydney nurses who spoke of threats to kill Israel i patients in a viral video, amid hopes the matter will serve as a “wake-up call” to rampant antisemitism. Executive Council of Australian Jewry’s Co-CEO Alex Ryvchin has condemned two NSW Health nurses who spoke of threats to kill Israel i patients, with the incident showcasing the “depravity and inhumanity” of the antisemitic movement.
Ahmad ‘Rashad’ Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh were stood down from their jobs as nurses at Bankstown Hospital on Wednesday after the NSW Health Minister Ryan Park earlier said an investigation involving the department and NSW Police was underway, with Premier Chris Minns later confirming the workers had been stood down. Executive Council of Australian Jewry’s Alex Ryvchin deemed the incident “one of the most chilling things” he had seen recently – despite a concerning wave of antisemitic attacks in the last few months. “To have these two young Australians, medical practitioners in our country, in our hospital system, speaking so openly, so brazenly, so calmly and competently about torturous death… it just shows the level of depravity and inhumanity of this movement,” he told Sky News host Chris Kenny. He argued it was a “teachable moment” and a “wake-up call” to rampant antisemitism which has swept through the nation since Hamas’ October 7 attacks on Israel. “For so long, we've been saying we have to understand antisemitism, we have to understand how it poisons minds, how it infects even rational, educated people, and what it drives people to do, the uniqueness of antisemitism,” he said. “But for too long it's been bundled up with Islamophobia and all forms of racism and hatred, which totally misses the point of how antisemitism works and what it does to society. Ahmad ‘Rashad’ Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh were stood down from their jobs as nurses at Bankstown Hospital on Wednesday after the video emerged. Picture: Supplied. “But hopefully this is the wake-up call - when something like this happens, it can be denied no longer. 'We have a serious problem in our society, particularly in certain sectors of the political and ethnic, and we have to rule it out.” Mr Ryvchin said the matter needed to be urgently confronted, raising concerns about generations of future Australians who may demonstrate the same level of “hatred”. “We'll be dealing with school kids sitting next to each other and feeling this sort of hatred we saw on the university campuses months ago, the forceable indoctrination of little kids, kids being urged to talk about intifada, to speak about Israel as an evil,' he said. “And those same kids are going to be in our hospital systems before long, so we need to understand this ideology and root it out from the beginning. One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson also spoke to Sky News on Wednesday night, slamming the nurses and arguing the incident showed there needed to be a tightening of rules around who was let into the country. One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson also spoke to Sky News host Chris Kenny, expressing her anger as she argued the incident showed there needed to be a tightening of rules around who was let into the country. Picture: Sky News It comes as Mr Nadir, one of the nurses, is understood to have been born in Afghanistan, immigrating to Australia at 12 years old and becoming at citizen in 2020. “For many decades I've been saying about the people we bring into this country that they must be compatible with our culture and way of life, not the fundamentalist ideology that people are pushing,” Ms Hanson said. Ms Hanson acknowledged there are “good people here of Muslim faith and background” in Australia, but said there needs to be a “tighter rein-in” on immigrants and what their ideologies are. 'That's why I keep saying, make it eight years before anyone can apply for citizenship in the country. Just take more of a of a look,' she said
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