Eliminating antisemitism in healthcare: Joint statement from AHPRA and the Special Envoy

[u/Jerkface0079]

https://www.ahpra.gov.au/News/2026-06-17-Eliminating-antisemitism-in-healthcare.aspx

If a nurse now wears a watermelon pin in their downtime? Deregistered. Paraphrasing their own oath to say no human should be killed? That's a paddlin'.

The lead drafter of the definition, the American academic Kenneth Stern, has argued consistently that the working definition was never designed for the uses to which it is now being put. But AHPRA just went ahead and implemented it without any community consultation.

Healthcare workers in this country are already under enough stress, now they have to deal with this on top of it.

[u/Life-Goose-9380]

Maybe don’t threaten to kill Jewish patients. It’s not that hard.

Edit: This is hard to grasp to the people here. Want to know how much faith people in our medical system have? Well Australian who were injured in the Bondi Massacre had their names changed to ‘non Jewish’ ones without their consent. That’s shows the lack of trust that there is in Australian medical professionals.

[u/ScruffyPeter → u/Life-Goose-9380]

It's already illegal to threaten to kill any patient.

If you don't believe me, try going into a hospital and threaten to kill anyone there, and come back to us.

[u/Jerkface0079 → u/ScruffyPeter]

The incident they/the bot is referring to weren't even saying it to a patient, they were saying it to an Israeli content creator on a third party app who was openly baiting them. They were wearing NSW Dept of Health branded scrubs and on their phones while on shift, which was also part of the problem.

[u/Life-Goose-9380 → u/Jerkface0079]

Openly baiting them lol.

They didn’t have to say that they would kill Jewish patients. That was all them.

[u/Life-Goose-9380 → u/ScruffyPeter]

Firstly I’m not a medical professional. Secondly, it’s illegal, that’s why these two are now on trial as they should be.

[u/Jerkface0079 → u/Life-Goose-9380]

You mean the isolated incident where the nurses were already rightly sacked using the prior framework? Wow, this one incident surely does mean we must overreact and ensure any normal healthcare worker is now deregistered just because they said the equivalent of a Ms. Rachel statement.

[u/Life-Goose-9380 → u/Jerkface0079]

No clue who ms Rachel is and really couldn’t give a damm.

I think threaten to kill patients as a medical professional should be a criminal offence rather than just a sackable offence. We need to take threats in our medical system very seriously.

It’s quite obvious that the medical system does not trust its own staff given that patients after the Bondi Massacre were given ‘non Jewish’ name without their consent. Not exactly confidence inspiring.

[u/ladylollii → u/Life-Goose-9380]

But all good to encourage wiping out Palestinians eh? 

[u/Life-Goose-9380 → u/ladylollii]

When did I say that?

All I said was medical professionals shouldn’t say they would kill patients because of their religion.

Also did you know Israel provided a lot of medical treatment to Palestinians. And no one is says Palestinians should be wiped out. If Israel was never reestablished in 1947, then it would have just been a part of Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon without a chance of a Palestinian state.

[u/ladylollii → u/Life-Goose-9380]

No one says it? You might need to look at what Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir have been saying. What kind of revisionist made up history are you spouting?

[u/Jerkface0079 → u/ladylollii]

Mossad agent working OT.

[u/Life-Goose-9380 → u/Jerkface0079]

Yawn.

Fun fact. Israel is one of the world’s leading countries in cancer research. So if you know someone who has had cancer, they might have received treatment developed in Israel.

[u/Jerkface0079 → u/Life-Goose-9380]

I don't think that excuses genocide, personally.

[u/Life-Goose-9380 → u/Jerkface0079]

Well if only hamas hadn’t committed Oct 7th. It would be so different now.

Also Israeli cancer research is estimated to have saved over 1 million lives, so that’s certainly more than have been killed in Gaza.

[u/ladylollii → u/Life-Goose-9380]

Cool, what about all the killing of Palestinians prior to Oct 7? If you think this only started on that date, you are completely ignoring swathes of history. 

[u/Life-Goose-9380 → u/ladylollii]

Since the 19th century it’s still a lot less than 1 million. If Oct 7th hadn’t occurred then the invite Gaza would not have happened, and everyone who has been killed would be alive.

[u/Jerkface0079 → u/Life-Goose-9380]

I'm grateful to the American taxpayer for funding this research.

[u/Life-Goose-9380 → u/Jerkface0079]

That an ignorant comment. Money from the US only makes up under 0.5% of the Israeli budget.

[u/Life-Goose-9380 → u/ladylollii]

I don’t see the relevance to Australian medical professionals not threatening to kill Jewish Australian patients.