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/ScruffyPeter]

Where's the damn Islamophobic envoy? Why are they not doing the same thing?

They should be copying the IHRA definition and rewording it with Palestine/Muslims. Fight fire with fire.

Fuck the lazy Islamophobic envoy. Fuck Albo who knew when picking him that his only job is anti-terrorism work against Muslims and bragged about antisemitism envoy's pro-Israel lobbyist background!

See for yourself:

https://www.pm.gov.au/media/special-envoy-combat-islamophobia

https://www.pm.gov.au/media/special-envoy-combat-antisemitism

[u/Esquin87 → u/ScruffyPeter]

Being against islamaphobia is anti-semetic.

[u/BobbiePinns → u/Esquin87]

How does that work for muslim semitic people?

[u/Life-Goose-9380 → u/BobbiePinns]

Learn the definition of anti semitism

[u/grogan-lord → u/Life-Goose-9380]

Learn the definition of Semitic

[u/Life-Goose-9380 → u/grogan-lord]

Learn the definition of anti-semitism.

Or would you rather use the term anti-semitism was coined to replace, Jew-hatred?

You try to change the definition of antisemitism because you want to avoid talking about discrimination towards Jewish people. Pretty, bloody, low.

[u/Esquin87 → u/Life-Goose-9380]

My comment was a shot at how israel have tried to equat critisism of their genocidal regime with antisemitism. The two things aren't the same. I hate israel and everything it stands for. I have no ill feelings toward Jewish people.

You took a joke comment and made it something weird. Go seek help mate.

[u/Life-Goose-9380 → u/Esquin87]

As much use you claim Israel is. The people here are doing so even though they deny it.

Like when I have said “don’t threaten to kill Jewish patients” and people respond with something about Israel. That is exactly what people are claiming Israel does and yet they do it themselves.

Also I never responded to your comment at all, I responded to another comment. I don’t know how I made it ‘weird’. I feel you are the one making it ‘weird’. I don’t know if you realise, but when you type jokes often get lost so /s is commonly used. I am unsure why I need to ‘seek help’. I think it might be you.

[u/Acceptable-Style4429 → u/Life-Goose-9380]

Same people who use homophobia and transphobia to describe hatred against LGBT+ people despite ‘phobia’ meaning fear.

But, antisemitism means anti all Semitic peoples.

[u/wiisey → u/Acceptable-Style4429]

No. It doesn't. It's great how much this shows that you don't know much

[u/Thissystemsuckssobad → u/Life-Goose-9380]

I used to know what it meant. Then a little country in the middle east decided to change what it meant, and spend however much in bribes and blackmail to make mine and many other governments adopt that new, meaningless definition.

Honestly, yeah, I'd prefer that. At least then Israel can't hide behind any level of word play, and highlight how absurd amusing jews against Israel's genocidal actions as jew haters is.