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In early February, Ahmed Rashid Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, two Muslim nurses working at Bankstown Hospital in Sydney, Australia, were having an online conversation with Max Veifer, an Israeli. Here is some of what was said, captured on videotape. “Nurses’ full anti-Semitic rant revealed,” by Clareese Packer, NewsWire, February 14, 2025:
…The video released by Mr Veifer on Friday captured the moment Mr Veifer told Mr Nadir that he was from “Israel … the Holy Land”.
“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,” Mr Nadir said.
“This pretty eyes, they should stay in this world for longer.”
Mr Veifer asked why he would be killed, questioning whether it was because he served in the Israeli Defence Force.
“Maybe because I served in the IDF, that’s why?” Mr Veifer said, with Mr Nadir replying “that’s definitely the answer, correct”.
When Mr Veifer asked what was wrong with serving in the IDF, Ms Lebdeh said “because you killed innocent people”.
“Killed? I was protecting my country,” Mr Veifer said.
“So you kill innocent people to protect your country? What kind of soul do you have, you have no soul,” Ms Lebdeh said.
Mr Veifer replied “in the war people die, as you know — they started the war”.
Both Mr Nadir and Ms Lebdeh appeared to disagree, while Mr Veifer continued, asking “who started this war? Who elected Hamas?”
“It’s Palestine’s country, not your country you piece of sh*t,” Ms Lebdeh said.
“One day your time will come and you will die the most horrible death.
“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.”
At the same time Ms Lebdeh was speaking, Mr Veifer said: “You spread hate, we spread positivity, we spread protection, we spread peace, and you spread death – how are you doctors?”
Mr Veifer then began to ask whether the pair would treat an Israeli person, but Ms Lebdeh cut him off: “I won’t treat them, I’ll kill them … Not God forbid, I hope to God.”
“You have no idea how many Israeli … dog came to this hospital and … I literally sent them to (the afterlife),” Mr Nadir added while slicing his hand across his neck.
Lebdeh was arrested and has been charged with threatening to kill any patients she may have in the future who are Jews. And just now Ahmed Rashid Nadir’s turn has come — he’s been arrested and charged on several counts, but most importantly, for making claims of having killed “hundreds” of Jewish patients in the past. More on what Nadir ow faces can be found here: “Second Australian Nurse Charged Over Viral Video Threatening to Kill Israeli Patients,” by Ailin Vilches Arguello, Algemeiner, March 5, 2025:
An Australian nurse working in a Sydney hospital has been arrested and charged after a viral video captured him making threats, stating he would refuse to treat Israeli patients and instead kill them….
On Tuesday night, 27-year-old Ahmed Rashid Nadir was arrested and charged with federal offenses, including using a carriage service to menace, harass, or cause offense, as well as possession of a prohibited drug, NSW Police said in a statement.
The arrest follows an incident at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital in Sydney, in which Nadir and his fellow nurse, Sarah Abu Lebdeh, were seen in an online video posing as doctors and making inflammatory statements during a night-shift discussion with Israeli influencer Max Veifer….
The incident is one of the latest in a surge of antisemitic acts across Australia since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza in October 2023, with Jewish institutions targeted in arson attacks and businesses defaced.
Law enforcement in Sydney and Melbourne, home to the majority of Australia’s Jewish population, is actively investigating hate crimes, including the recent discovery of a trailer containing explosives and a list of potential Jewish targets.
Since the formation of Strike Force Pearl, the task force to combat antisemitism, in December, NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb reported that 15 people have been arrested, and 78 charges have been filed.
“I must commend the work Strike Force Pearl detectives are doing to investigate, charge, and put these individuals before the courts,” Webb said in a statement. “There is a tremendous amount of dedication and hard work going into all these investigations.”
Last month, dozens of Australia’s leading Muslim groups and individuals defended the two nurses, accusing their critics of “hypocrisy” and “double standards and moral manipulation” in an open letter.
“This statement is not about defending inappropriate remarks. It is about pushing back against the double standards and moral manipulation at play while the mass killing of our brothers and sisters in Gaza is met with silence, dismissal, or complicity,” the letter said.
The Muslims are trying to divert attention away from the matter at hand. To wit, the claims made by these two Muslim nurses, one of them boasting about having killed “hundreds” of Jewish patients, and the other expressing the desire to kill Jewish patients in the future. What goes on in Gaza is not at issue here. But since these Muslims claim that there has been a “mass killing” in Gaza, we should not let that claim be uncritically accepted. Out of 2.2 million Gazans, 48,000 have died during the war. At least 20,000 of these were Hamas combatants. We know that before the war, about 800 Gazans died each month from diseases and accidents; in the 16 months of war, that amounts to 10,800 deaths from non-combat related causes. That means the total number of civilians killed in the war can be calculated as follows: 28,000 minus 10,800, or 17,200. Does a total of 17,000 civilians dead as a result of combat, out of a total population of 2.2 million amount to “mass murder”?
Now Ahmed Rashid Nadir will also have his day in court. He and Sarah Abu Lebdeh have already been struck off; neither will be able to work as nurses in New South Wales ever again, and given the massive publicity about them, it is unlikely that they will ever find similar work anywhere in Australia or, indeed, in the entire West. But don’t worry about them. After they have served their sentences, they can find suitable employment in Qatar, Algeria, or Iran.
