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Here is more of the Muslim Community’s statement on the nurses Ahmad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, and their murderous hatred of Jews: “Australian Muslim groups condemn those who are upset at healthcare workers who threaten patients for political reasons,” Elder of Ziyon, February 18, 2025:
This is more than hypocrisy. It is calculated, politically motivated outrage. It is not a failure of consistency; it is the deliberate engineering of public morality.
Outrage is manufactured when it serves a political narrative, with silence strategically deployed when the truth might expose the complicity of those in power.
2. The Weaponisation of “Anti-Semitism”
The labeling of this video as “anti-Semitic” follows a well-documented pattern of gaslighting by Zionist lobby groups and their friends within government and media circles.
Where was the “gaslighting”? What “Zionist lobby” tricked the two nurses into making their statements? And weren’t their blood-curdling remarks about murdering Israelis “antisemitic”?
We are unequivocal: Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people. The frustration and anger directed at Israel is a direct response to its violent and inhumane policies—not an expression of hatred toward Jewish people.
Attempts to weaponise accusations of anti-Semitism to silence dissent are not only intellectually dishonest but also dangerous.
No one was “weaponising accusations of antisemitism to silence dissent.” What silencing of dissent was there? Statements, and a throat-cutting gesture, were made by Ahmad Nadir that clearly suggested he had killed Israeli patients in the past. Perhaps it was an idle boast, but taking credit for murders is no laughing matter. Sarah Abu Lebdeh made no such claim, but she did say she would gladly kill any Israeli patients assigned to her. Is posting videos of these two making these blood-curdling remarks really “weaponising accusations of antisemitism”? If someone makes remarks that could reasonably be interpreted as antisemitic, or anti-Israel, or both, why should it be forbidden to offer the evidence for that charge? The Muslim community collectively claims that statements by the nurses should not be taken literally but should be understood as reflecting their “frustration and anger” at Israel for its “inhumane policies.” So please understand that their remarks were driven by righteous anger at those Zionists committing genocide. They merely wanted to make a point about the depth of their feeling.
Are you convinced by that? No, me neither.
3. The Sanctity of Healthcare
We recognise the importance of professionalism and ethical responsibility within healthcare and that the nurses’ actions breached the codes of conduct for health professionals. The statements made by the nurses regarding “killing Israelis” were clearly emotional and hyperbolic, as supported by subsequent investigations.
Their statements were made in a calm manner; there was nothing “emotional” or “hyperbolic” about them. The boilerplate about “professionalism and ethical responsibility within healthcare” should be taken cum grano salis. The Muslim Community’s statement mildly criticizing the “nurses’ actions” that “breached the codes of conduct” would be more convincing it it didn’t come at the end of paragraphs full of a defense of the nurses’ remarks for being 1) not really meant 2) tricked out of them by a Zionist provocateur and 3) clearly were “emotional and hyperbolic” in nature..
Healthcare professionals are bound by their duty to treat and care for all individuals. This principle is most powerfully exemplified by healthcare workers in Gaza who, even as their hospitals are bombed and their colleagues targeted and killed, continue to provide life-saving care to all who need it.
Healthcare workers in Gaza — many of whom have been linked to Hamas — have nothing to do with the two nurses’ threats to kill, or admissions of having killed, Israeli patients. Mentioning their supposed life-saving heroics in Gaza is a diversionary tactic.
The fifty Muslim groups that joined in the press release above are trying to deny the clear meaning of the hair-raising and murderous remarks made by Ahmad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, by suggesting they were tricked into making them by a Zionist provocateur, and that in any case the nurses could not possibly have meant what they said. Furthermore, the Muslim community of Australia wants us to believe that the rapidity with which the story spread on social media shows that a Zionist conspiracy was behind the whole incident, when in fact it was the sheer horror at the content of those remarks that explains their rapid spread. . It’s not just the two nurses, but other Muslims at Bankstown Hospital who are now in trouble. They have been accused of spitting into the food of Jewish patients, and possibly sprinkling those patients’ dishes with other, most sickening condiments. There will now be, one hopes, a thorough investigation of Muslim medical personnel across Australia, and their interactions with Jewish and Israeli patients.