YESTERDAY’S TCW reported on the video in which two Muslim health workers in Bankstown Hospital, Sydney, wished violent death on every Israeli, threatened to kill every Israeli who came into the hospital, and even claimed to have killed Israeli patients: When is a Gazan like a Ukrainian? Never – The Conservative Woman
The male nurse – who wrongly claimed to be a doctor in the video – was later identified as Rashad Nadir. He is an Afghan migrant who had previously featured in a news article showing the benefits of such migration, showing ‘the power of hope, help, and love’
The female nurse was identified as Sarah Abu Lebdah. One of her relatives attacked an investigating reporter and stole his phone.
It was also revealed that the hospital had a culture of Israel hatred among its staff, and evidence of this was wiped from its social media pages after the video went viral:
The nurses were suspended while the Australian media and politicians insisted that this was an ‘isolated’ incident and inevitably tried to present it as a generic example of ‘hate speech’ which could be solved by more online censorship. In fact it was just one symptom of the tsunami of open anti-Semitism – including multiple physical attacks against Jews and synagogues – in Australia since the Hamas attacks in Israel on October 7, 2023.
As in most of the West, much of this anti-Semitism has been fuelled by a mainstream media narrative which downplayed the genuine genocide committed by the Palestinians and instead wrongly cast Israel’s response as a genocide.
The problem of increased anti-Semitism among healthcare workers since October 7 is equally true in the UK, where NHS staff health workers have been a prominent feature of the anti-Semitic pro-Hamas rallies and demonstrations. Moreover, NHS staff have also organised their own anti-Israel protests. In April 2024 dozens of healthcare workers blocked the entrance to NHS England headquarters in London, protesting about the NHS’s contract with Palantir, a US-based company known for supplying technology to Israel. Demonstrators held banners reading ‘No Palantir in the NHS’ and ‘Palantir aids apartheid’.
In August 2024 a mass protest by NHS healthcare against Israel took place outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London.
There have also been multiple incidents of NHS staff in the UK displaying slogans on their uniform in support of ‘Free Palestine’ and badges and clothing calling for the destruction of Israel.
An especially serious case of anti-Semitism occurred in March 2024 when nurses wearing pro-Palestine badges forced a nine-year-old identifiably Jewish boy out of a hospital bed and on to the floor while he was receiving a blood transfusion.
Despite promising a thorough investigation into this event, no results of such an investigation have been published and a Freedom of Information (FoI) request for details surrounding the event was refused by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust.
Because of this I have submitted my own FoI request to Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust asking to see all email correspondence relating to the case and the investigation.
Judging by the extremely weak statements made by the hospital after the event and the NHS history of cover-up I do not hold out much hope of a positive response.
