Sydney nurse charged after saying she wouldn’t treat Israelis

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A Sydney nurse has been charged with making threats after she appeared in an online video saying she would not treat Israeli patients.

Sarah Abu Lebdeh, 26, was arrested Tuesday night and charged with the federal offences of threatening violence to a group, using a carriage service to threaten to kill and using a carriage service to menace and harass, police said in a statement.

The charges carried a potential maximum penalty of 22 years in prison.

Neither a defence lawyer nor Abu Lebdeh has commented on the charges. She was released on bail to appear in a Sydney court on 19 March.

Abu Lebdeh and another nurse, Ahmed Rashid Nadir, were suspended from Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital on 12 February over an online exchange with Israeli influencer Max Veifer the night before.

Abu Lebdeh said she wouldn’t treat Israeli patients, while Nadir suggested he had killed Israelis.

Nadir has yet to be interviewed by police.

The hospital examined patient records and found no evidence that the nurses had harmed patients.

Australia has experienced a surge in antisemitic attacks and rhetoric that have roiled the nation as homes, offices, and businesses have been vandalized, and a school and two synagogues were torched in just over a year with crimes targeting Jews.

The director-general of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation announced antisemitism is now the “number one priority”.

At the same time,  the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils said it was “alarmed” by the increase in attacks against Muslims.

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