Family of viral antisemitic nurse who threatened to kill Israeli patients says she was set up

The brother of a Sydney nurse who has been stood down after she and a colleague were recorded making vile anti-Semitic remarks has said his sister was “set up”.“She was baited,” said Mohamed Abu Lebdeh of his sister Sarah Abu Lebdeh who worked at Sydney’s Bankstown Hospital in Australia.It comes as Israeli media outlets have reacted to the nurses’ shocking remarks and their subsequent apologies.One questioned if the pair were, in reality, “sorry, not sorry?”Sarah and fellow nurse Ahmad “Rashad” Nadir were recorded by Israeli influencer Max Veifer.He frequently uses Chatruletka and Omegle, online platforms that pairs users into random video chats, to expose instances of anti-Semitism and also to learn English, he has claimed.The two nurses were wearing New South Wales Health scrubs when they ended up talking to Veifer.“I’m so upset that you’re Israeli, like eventually you’re going to get killed,” Nadir told the Israeli man.When Veifer asked why he was going to get killed, Sarah appeared on the screen.“It’s Palestine’s country not your country, you piece of s—,” Sarah said.“One day your time will come and you will die the most … listen to me when your time comes, I want you to remember my face so you can understand that you will die the most disgusting death.”Veifer questioned whether they would treat an Israeli person, but Sarah cut him off saying “I won’t treat them, I’ll kill them … Not God forbid, I hope to God”.The remarks set off a firestorm with NSW Health suspending the staff members and making moves to sack and bar them from ever working in healthcare again.NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb has said a Strike Force Pearl investigation was “well underway”.

Police have indicated they could charge the pair.Sarah is believed to have graduated with a diploma of nursing five years ago, and has been working at NSW Health since February 2021.A man who identified himself as her uncle told The Australian on W...