Nightmare nurses: A Bankstown horror story

Rebecca Weisser I 22 February 2025 I Spectator Australia

Step aside, Nurse Ratched. The health carer from hell in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest has a pair of real-life competitors in the nightmare nurse category.

Ahmad ‘Rashad’ Nadir and Sara Abu Lebdeh burst onto our screens a week ago after Israeli English teacher Max Veifer asked them on candid camera what they would do if ‘God, forbid’ they had an Israeli patient in their care? Abu Lebdeh had already told Veifer he would die a horrible death. This time she couldn’t even wait for Veifer to finish his sentence, cutting him off to say, ‘I won’t treat them, I’ll kill them. Not God forbid, I hope to God’. ‘You have no idea how many Israeli kahara dog came to this hospital and… I literally sent them to Jahannam (hell),’ Nadir added, whipping his hand across his gullet as if he was slitting the throat of a hapless Israeli patient.

Who knows if this is Nadir’s nadir? Accepted as a refugee after fleeing the war in Afghanistan and being plucked from a boat by the Australian Navy as he and his mother attempted to enter the country without a visa, he was coached by the charitable Helmsman Project, which helps disadvantaged teens, and held up as an example of what can be achieved by ‘the power of hope, help and love’. Yet after asking a colleague to clear out his locker, they called the police who allegedly found a vial of morphine.

As Veifer’s video went viral, Nadir apologised several times, insisting his comments were ‘a joke and a misunderstanding’. Lebdeh’s family said she’d expressed remorse but also that she had been ‘set up’ and the video ‘edited’.

Cue the formation of a cheer squad to defend the noxious nurses by Stand 4 Palestine (S4P) Australia which claims it is not a ‘front’ for Hizb ut-Tahrir (HuT) although its organisers – Anas, Amer and Mohammed al-Wahwah, are all relatives of Hizb ut-Tahrir Australia’s founder, Ismail al-Wahwah, and appear routinely on HuT’s YouTube channel.

A communique was drafted which accused those who expressed horror at the murderous threats of the nurses of ‘manufactured’ ‘selective outrage’. It claimed that it was ‘the weaponisation of “Anti-Semitism”’ that was ‘dangerous’ and the ‘gaslighting by Zionist lobby groups’. The nurses were frustrated at genocidal Israel. The statements about ‘“killing Israelis”’ were ‘clearly’ just emotional hyperbole. The ethical behaviour by health professionals was ‘exemplified by healthcare workers in Gaza’ and it called on ‘our leaders and media institutions to apply their professed moral standards consistently’ to confront ‘uncomfortable truths’.

The signatories are a rogue’s gallery of the usual suspects. First amongst equals was HuT, banned in the UK last year, listed as a terrorist organisation in India, and proscribed in Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey.

Also prominent was The Muslim Vote convener sheik Wesam Charkawi, who is co-ordinating campaigns for Dr Ziad Basyouny and Ahmed Ouf running in Watson and Blaxland against Labor’s Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke and Education Minister Jason Clare. Basyouny, a GP in Western Sydney, shared a post on social media five days after the 7 October massacre depicting an armed militant riding a paraglider with the caption, ‘Dreams, my friend, come true for those who seek and work to see them come true!’

Also defending the indefensible were the -Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, the Islamic councils of Victoria and WA, the Al Madina Dawah Centre founder, Wissam Haddad, aka Abu Ousayd, and the Melbourne-based Al Bayyinah Islamic Centre, linked to Mr Haddad. Haddad is the proud friend of dead Islamic State terrorists Khaled Sharrouf and Mohamed Elomar, who is being sued for vilifying the Jewish community in sermons referring to Jews as ‘descendants of pigs and monkeys’, reciting parables about killing Jews and calling them ‘treacherous people’ with their ‘hands in business and media’.

Not to be missed was Sheik Ibrahim Dadoun, an imam at a United Muslims of Australia (UMA) community centre who has served as Director of Public Relations for the Australian National Imams Council (ANIC). Dadoun became infamous the day after the 7th of October 2023 for telling a baying mob outside Lakemba Mosque and the Lebanese Muslim Association in western Sydney that he was ‘elated’, ‘smiling’ because 7 October had been a ‘day of courage’.

A year later, at a ‘promised victory’ conference organised by S4P he told the crowd he was still ‘elated’, despite Sinwar’s death explaining, ‘I’ve never seen it, ever in my life, the shift in the tide that has occurred over the last year against the Zionist regime’ and crowing, ‘We are on that path to victory. We are on that path of the civilisational struggle where we’re going to see Islam dominate, where we’re going to see Islam bring justice to every corner in the world’, applauding those who were ‘fighting with their blood’ in the ‘lands of jihad’.

Last year, the federal government provided Dadoun’s employer, the UMA, $3.5 million to promote ‘social cohesion’, no less. When opposition home affairs spokesman James Paterson said Dadoun’s ‘open displays of extremism’ highlighted the ‘absurdity’ of the funding, Burke said the UMA leadership had a history of working closely with the government.

In a similar vein, Health Minister Mark Butler did nothing when he was sent a dossier detailing the pro-Hamas social media posts of health professionals which was compiled by Melbourne psychiatrist Jacqueline Rakov and signed by 235 health professionals.

Worse, Sydney midwife Sharon Stoliar nearly lost her job after reporting to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency that nurses and midwives were chanting ‘From the river to the sea’ while wearing NSW Health uniforms.

On 13 February, Nadir and Abu Lebdeh were deregistered by the Nursing and Midwifery Council of NSW but this didn’t daunt former Australian Ambassador Tony Kevin who wrote on social media, ‘If these two nurses get their licences back, I will be happy to be cared for them in any Australian public hospital’.

Kevin explained that, ‘The whole episode reflects the ruthlessness of the Zionists in our midst’ who he denounced as ‘reckless, utterly determined, dangerous people’. In particular he blamed Veifer, who ‘knew exactly what he was doing in targeting these two naive nurses’. ‘They were entrapped by a trained, malign manipulator into making serious mistakes in what they had thought was a fun conversation’.

Oh, the fun of chatting about killing Israeli patients. Who would have thought that in Australia, of all places, it could get you into trouble? The post was shared by ‘Stand 4 Palestine Australia’, whose social media manager was impressed, writing, ‘Respect. Former Australian ambassador!’

Author: Rebecca Weisser

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