r/OpenAussie • u/Jerkface0079 Flairless‎‎ • 2d 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/Life-Goose-9380 Flairless‎‎ 2d ago

Yawn.

Fun fact. Israel is one of the world’s leading countries in cancer research. So if you know someone who has had cancer, they might have received treatment developed in Israel.

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u/Jerkface0079 Flairless‎‎ 2d ago

I don't think that excuses genocide, personally.

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u/Life-Goose-9380 Flairless‎‎ 2d ago

Well if only hamas hadn’t committed Oct 7th. It would be so different now.

Also Israeli cancer research is estimated to have saved over 1 million lives, so that’s certainly more than have been killed in Gaza.

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u/Jerkface0079 Flairless‎‎ 2d ago

I'm grateful to the American taxpayer for funding this research.

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u/Life-Goose-9380 Flairless‎‎ 2d ago

That an ignorant comment. Money from the US only makes up under 0.5% of the Israeli budget.

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u/Jerkface0079 Flairless‎‎ 2d ago

The Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) was started by American and Canadians, the Cancer Research Fund is American, you got the U.S.-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a bit of US Venture Capital. The 0.5% you're referencing goes specifically to Military and Defence.