<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>339073</docID> <postdate>2025-02-26 15:44:58</postdate> <headline>Social media, travel ban for nurse in anti-Israel video</headline> <body><p><img class="size-full wp-image-338205" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/ansemitism-nurses-2-resized-e1739397068213.jpg" alt="" width="843" height="562" /></p> <caption>Banned nurses Ahmed Rashid Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh. Photo: TikTok</caption> <p><span class="kicker-line">By <strong>Farid Farid</strong> in Sydney</span></p> <p>A nurse charged with inciting violence against Israeli patients has been barred from leaving Australia and logging onto social media platforms.</p> <p>Sarah Abu Lebdeh worked at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital in Sydney and was charged with three federal offences after meeting investigators at a police station on Tuesday night.</p> <p>The charges include threatening violence to a group, using a carriage service to threaten to kill and using a carriage service to menace, harass or offend.</p> <p>"(Abu Lebdeh) is on very, very strict bail conditions namely prohibiting her from going to a point of departure from Australia but more importantly banned from using social media," NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb on Wednesday.</p> <p>The 26-year-old appeared alongside colleague Ahmed Rashid Nadir in a video chat from the hospital with Israeli social media personality Max Veifer.</p> <p>The duo allegedly bragged about refusing to treat Israeli patients and killing them instead.</p> <p>Ms Webb confirmed the male nurse was still under investigation and police would "interview that individual at the right time".</p> <p>Nadir was taken to hospital for assessment earlier in February after paramedics were called to his Bankstown home following a "concern for welfare" report.</p> <p>The investigation, led by detectives targeting anti-Semitic incidents, had not been straightforward because of "jurisdictional challenges" involved with Mr Veifer's location, Ms Webb said.</p> <p>"It is very complex because we're dealing with not only offending in our jurisdiction, but it crosses global borders.</p> <p>"We're dealing with basically a global issue and obtaining evidence from someone based overseas, 13 days is an incredibly short time."</p> <p>She declined to declare whether the video was anti-Semitic or anti-Israeli, saying it was a matter for the courts.</p> <p>In an earlier ABC radio interview, Ms Webb said there was no evidence patients at the hospital had been harmed.</p> <p>Nadir previously told reporters the incident was a "big mistake", describing the comments as a joke gone wrong and apologising for any offence.</p> <p>In the back and forth with Mr Veifer, who revealed in the conversation on the Chatruletka platform that he had served with the Israeli Defence Forces, Abu Lebdeh said: "One day, your time will come and you will die the most horrible death".</p> <p>The video drew widespread condemnation, including from the prime minister and NSW premier.</p> <p>Australia's health practitioner watchdog barred both nurses from working in the profession nationwide "in any context" and they have had their registrations suspended by the NSW Nursing and Midwifery Council.</p> <p>Abu Lebdeh was granted police bail and will appear again in court in March.</p> </body>