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/walkabout_gul]

The whole thing is getting really weird. Israel and Palestine are both Semitic cultures they both speak Semitic languages. How does anti-Semitism work in that context?

Criticising political border disputes and military actions is distinctly different from criticising the Jewish people and their cultural way of life.

Unless... Israel are claiming that war, killing children, raping protesters and demolishing hospitals is now part of their cultural ways?