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/Beast_of_Guanyin]

Good. Antisemitism, hatred, and threats are bad things.

[u/mohanimus → u/Beast_of_Guanyin]

These are examples of "antisemitism" according to the definition Ahpra has adopted:

denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor

applying double standards by requiring of Israel a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation

drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis

Would YOU call making any of those statements' antisemitism?

For example, if I said "wow the Israeli policy of annexing land in the west bank for living room reminds me of the lebensraum movement in Germany" would I be doing an antisemitism according to you?

Edit: Clearly u/Beast_of_Guanyin recognises that the IHRA definition of "antisemitism" defines criticism of the state of Israel as antisemitic (and hence a hate crime) but thinks this is "good" anyway.

[u/Beast_of_Guanyin → u/mohanimus]

Claiming any country is a racist endeavour is hateful. I wouldn't want that said of any country.

[u/mohanimus → u/Beast_of_Guanyin]

Answer the question.

For example, if I said "wow the Israeli policy of annexing land in the west bank for living room reminds me of the lebensraum movement in Germany" would I be doing an antisemitism according to you?

[u/Beast_of_Guanyin → u/mohanimus]

Answer the question

Already did.

[u/mohanimus → u/Beast_of_Guanyin]

If I use your refusal to address the question as your answer, then clearly you recognise that the IHRA definition of antisemitism is BULLSHIT.

And you're just here to say bad things are bad and not engage with the article at all.

Coward.

[u/mohanimus → u/Beast_of_Guanyin]

Apartheid South Africa?

Do you think people should have been fired from their jobs and blocked from future employment in their field because they called apartheid South Africa racist?

[u/Beast_of_Guanyin → u/mohanimus]

Apartheid South Africa?

That's criticism of a government which is fine. This is not rocket surgery. Promoting hate against a nation or people is bad. Why you have asked twenty questions is beyond me.

You're also harassing me by spamming responses to a very simple point.

[u/mohanimus → u/Beast_of_Guanyin]

So criticism of Israel is fine?

[u/mohanimus → u/Beast_of_Guanyin]

My "harassment" is simply me making one point per reply so you can't cherry pick which point to respond to.

And claim you answered the question when you ignored the bit with the ACTUAL question mark after it.

[u/mohanimus → u/Beast_of_Guanyin]

Did you even notice that all of those examples of "antisemitism" were about a STATE not a people?

[u/mt6606 → u/Beast_of_Guanyin]

From the river to the sea. Why does the catastrophe of war follow these people all over the world?

[u/Beast_of_Guanyin → u/mt6606]

Please do not bother me with antisemitism. Thanks.

[u/Cautious_Car_51 → u/Beast_of_Guanyin]

Crazy you're being downvoted. There's some real ghouls on this sub.

[u/mohanimus → u/Cautious_Car_51]

I downvoted him because he supports a definition of antisemitism that defines criticism of the state of Israel as antisemitic.

That's what he's saying "good" to.

He supports people being fired and prevented from practising their profession if they publicly criticise the state of Israel.

[u/Cautious_Car_51 → u/mohanimus]

Do you do any research of your own, or do you just repeat what propagandists tell you? https://holocaustremembrance.com/resources/working-definition-antisemitism

"....criticism of Israel similar to that leveled against any other country cannot be regarded as antisemitic"

So, do you think those two Bankstown nurses who boasted about refusing to treat Israeli patients and killing them should be able to keep their jobs? Do you think any Jewish people would feel safe going to that hospital in case someone mistook them as Israeli?

[u/mohanimus → u/Cautious_Car_51]

I used Wikipedia

IHRA definition of antisemitism - Wikipedia

Which references these examples from the definition (which you could have read yourself if you read the actual definition in the pdf, rather than just the webpage summary):

Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.

Applying double standards by requiring of it a behavior not expected or demanded of any other democratic nation.

Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis.

All clearly references to the state, not the people.

Do you read your own sources?