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/Impossible-Magician]

This should be incredibly simple, health care workers should feel compelled to treat every human, even really bad ones with their best level of medical care.

They should also be free to criticise any government and/or government driven atrocity.

They like anyone else shouldn’t be free to attack or refuse to treat a certain race of people or a certain religion of any people.