Anti-Jewish Stickers Placed at Dying Man's Bedside at Melbourne's Alfred Hospital, Nurses Face Trial Over Recorded Death Threats

What Happened at the Alfred Hospital

In his final hours, an elderly Jewish patient at Melbourne's Alfred Hospital had anti-Israel stickers — a Star of David with a red line through it — plastered on the wall beside his bed. He died looking at them.

The incident emerged as part of a broader exposé into antisemitism across Australian hospitals, reported by the Daily Wire. The investigation describes a systemic pattern, not isolated acts.

The Bankstown-Lidcombe Nurses and the Inadmissible Video

Ahmad Nadir, 28, and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, 27, are night-shift nurses at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital in Sydney. An Israeli influencer named Max Veifer recorded the pair on ChatRoulette. In the footage, Nadir stated he would not just refuse Jewish patients. He would kill them, accompanying the statement with a slow throat-slitting gesture, and boasted about sending Israelis to hell. Abu Lebdeh made similar remarks.

The footage circulated widely. Then it disappeared from the prosecution's case.

Judge Michael McHugh of Sydney's Downing Centre District Court ruled this week that the recording is inadmissible because neither nurse consented to being filmed. McHugh acknowledged the video was, in his words, "at the very least likely highly disturbing to right-minded people." He excluded it anyway, on privacy grounds.

Nadir and Abu Lebdeh still face trial on August 31. Without the recording, prosecutors must build their case from other evidence, a significantly harder task.

A Pattern, Not Isolated Events

Individual misconduct does not automatically indict an entire healthcare system. Australian hospitals employ tens of thousands of people, and a handful of documented bad actors are not proof of institutional policy.

But documented incidents extend well beyond two nurses on a late-night video call.

According to the Daily Wire's investigation, hospital corridors and toilet stalls have been covered in anti-Israel stickers. Medical staff have worn "From the river to the sea" insignia to work. A Jewish ICU nurse with more than a decade on the job quit after hospital management declined to act on her complaints. A Jewish cancer patient suspects a nurse deliberately failed her IV line four times, leaving bruising that lasted weeks. She formed this suspicion only after the Bankstown story became public.

A Melbourne woman who called a suicide hotline after learning two of her cousins were murdered in a Hamas kibbutz attack reported that the counselor criticized her for not expressing sufficient sympathy for Gaza.

A medical conference on gunshot wound treatment — techniques developed from battlefield experience — was canceled after anti-Israel healthcare workers threatened mass protests. Weeks after the cancellation, a terrorist attack occurred at Bondi Beach.

Pressure on the Regulator

Activists, pro-Palestinian influencers, and medical advocacy groups including the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network have been running a coordinated campaign targeting the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency, known as AHPRA. Their demand: that AHPRA reverse its recent adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's definition of antisemitism.

The campaign puts the regulator in an uncomfortable position. If AHPRA backs down under organized pressure, it sends a direct signal to Jewish healthcare workers and patients about where the agency's priorities sit.

What the Privacy Ruling Actually Means

The inadmissibility decision deserves scrutiny in both directions. Privacy laws that prevent covert recordings from being used as evidence are not inherently unjust. They protect everyone, including people recorded in bad faith. Applying them consistently is what makes them legitimate.

Two healthcare workers who stated, on camera, their willingness to harm patients based on ethnicity will stand trial stripped of the most direct evidence against them. Whether other evidence is sufficient to convict is an open question that will be answered on August 31.