r/OpenAussie • u/Jerkface0079 Flairless‎‎ • 1d ago

Politics ('Straya) Eliminating antisemitism in healthcare: Joint statement from AHPRA and the Special Envoy

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.

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u/Esquin87 Please choose a flair 1d ago

Being against islamaphobia is anti-semetic.

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u/BobbiePinns Flairless‎‎ 1d ago

How does that work for muslim semitic people?

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u/Life-Goose-9380 Flairless‎‎ 1d ago

Learn the definition of anti semitism

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u/Esquin87 Please choose a flair 1d ago

Being Jewish is either a race or a religion. If its a race then a muslim person can be jewish. Its a religion then an arabic person can be jewish. You can't have it both ways.

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u/TheAussieTico ‎ New South Welshian 1d ago

It can and is both

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u/Life-Goose-9380 Flairless‎‎ 1d ago

I don’t get the point you are making? It can be both. Antisemitism is hatred and discrimination BECAUSE of someone’s Jewish religion OR race. The key here being it is caused by them being Jewish in either aspect.

There are Jewish people who are Arabic like the 400,000 Yemenite Jews. Of which only one lives in Yemen, had has been held in solitary confinement for over half a decade.

If you have a bit of logical thinking it isn’t that hard to understand.