Antisemitic healthcare workers in Australia threaten to murder Israelis saying, 'I won’t treat them, I’ll kill them'

An Afghan-born Sydney nurse, Ahmad Rashad Nadir, and his female colleague Sarah Abu Lebdeh boasted they would not treat Israeli patients and would kill Israelis in a stream video clip with a Jewish influencer in Israel that has been widely condemned in Australia for its “sickening” antisemitic content. 

“I’m gonna be really honest with you … you actually got really, really beautiful eyes, but I’m so upset that you’re Israeli, like eventually you’re going to get killed,” Nadir who became an Australian citizen four years ago told the Jewish Israeli influencer. 

“Why do you think I’m going to get killed?” the influencer asked. The female health worker Lebdeh replied “It’s Palestine’s country, not your country you piece of s***.” 

“Listen to me when your time comes, I want you to remember my face so you can understand that you will die the most disgusting death,” she continued. 

She continued by stressing that she would not treat but rather kill Israelis. 

“I won’t treat them, I’ll kill them,” she threatened. 

“You have no idea how many Israeli … dog came to this hospital and … ,” Mr Nadir said, gesturing a knife through his neck. 

“I literally sent them to Jahannam,” he added. Jahannam means hell in Arabic.

The Observatory Tower Medical Centre in Sydney where Mr. Nadir works once a week, announced that he “comes from a background in hospital and emergency nursing and assists our doctors with a broad range of clinical duties.”

An uncle of Ms. Lebdeh reportedly claimed that she was “sorry” for her antisemitic remarks, which he blamed on an “extreme panic attack.”

“I’m trying to calm her down to see what the f**k happened,” the uncle said. “She’s been a nurse for God knows how long. She’s never done anything to hurt anyone,” he added. 

Dr. Nirmal Grewal the director and one of the General Practitioners at Observatory Tower Medical Centre condemned the antisemitic remarks made by the two health workers. 

“Our clinic has been around for 25 years and we find that behaviour reprehensible and we are far from anti-Semitic. We have a multidisciplinary team that comes from various backgrounds and we will not tolerate this behaviour.”

Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, Nadir said he intended to publicly apologize to the “Jewish community and anyone I’ve offended.” 

“It was a joke, a misunderstanding … I will use social media, anything, to apologise but I need to go and see the detectives first,” he claimed. 

The New South Wales Health Minister Ryan Park condemned the “appalling” video. 

“The comments are vile, dehumanising and unacceptable,” Park said.

“They made me sick to my stomach,” he continued. “If the investigation concludes that this behaviour has occurred, these individuals will no longer be working for NSW Health,” the minister cowed. 

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described the footage as “sickening and shameful”.

“The antisemitic video circulating today is disgusting. The comments are vile,” Albanese wrote on 𝕏. “These antisemitic comments, driven by hate, have no place in our health system and no place anywhere in Australia,” the prime minister added. 

Some 100,000 Jews reside in Australia, a multicultural society with historically low levels of antisemitism. However, antisemitism has exploded in Australian society following the Hamas Oct. 7, 2023, massacre of 1,200 Israelis.

Last December, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) reported that antisemitic incidents had increased by a whopping 400% in Australia since the Hamas attack on Israel in 2023. Immigrants from Muslim-majority countries have been disproportionally involved in the anti-Jewish attacks in Australia. 

“If anything, the raw numbers understate the seriousness of the surge in antisemitism that has occurred. There have been many new forms and expressions of anti-Jewish racism that would once have been considered alien to Australia, but which have become commonplace,” ECAJ Research Director Julie Nathan warned. 

In December, two people were injured in an antisemitic arson attack on a historic synagogue in Melbourne, which was condemned by the Australian prime minister. 

“This is an outrage. The violence and intimidation and destruction at a place of worship is something that we should never see in Australia,” Albanese stated. “I think an attack on a synagogue is an act of antisemitism by definition,” he said, stressing that it “has absolutely no place in Australia.”