Two nurses from Bankstown Hospital in Sydney are facing severe consequences after allegedly making violent threats against Israelis in a viral video.
Ahmad Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh have been banned from working with the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) for two years, just months after being stood down from their jobs at the hospital.
A Definition of Sanctions
The pair are among 133 individuals and businesses banned from working with NDIS participants in the first five months of 2025 for various reasons. Nadir’s lawyer has refused to comment on the NDIS ban.
Others sanctioned include a disability carer who was banned after OnlyFans videos of her and her client were found on his phone, and a former Lions president and his wife behind an NDIS company that was permanently banned by the watchdog.
The Incident
Nadir and Lebdeh were working at Bankstown Hospital in February when they allegedly made the threats in a conversation via online platform Chatruletka.
Footage posted online by Israeli social media personality Max Veifer showed them claiming they would refuse to treat Israelis and kill them instead.
Their alleged comments drew widespread condemnation, including from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and NSW Premier Chris Minns, who vowed the pair would never work for the state’s health service again.
Court Proceedings
Nadir, 27, was charged with using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend, and possessing a prohibited drug.
He previously apologized through his lawyer for the comments he made in the video.
His lawyer told reporters that he will challenge the charges against Nadir on the grounds of the video being taken without his consent.
Lebdeh, 26, is charged with three Commonwealth offences – threatening violence to a group, using a carriage service to threaten to kill, and using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend.
The pair are currently before the courts.