Australian hospitals have become dangerous for Jews. By Megan Goldin in The Australian.
Weeks before first responders fought valiantly to save lives at Bondi Beach in Sydney in December last year, an international medical conference on the latest battle-tested techniques to treat gunshot wound victims in the critical minutes after injury was to be held in Perth.
Among the speakers was the former head of the Israeli military’s medical corp, Dr Elon Glassberg, who was to share how the Israeli army reduced battlefield mortality rates from gunshot and blast injuries to the lowest in history of any army in the world.
Anti-Israel doctors and nurses groups threatened to picket the conference with large-scale protests if the Glassberg session went ahead. The organisers capitulated and the conference was cancelled.
For protesting healthcare workers, it was a victory to be celebrated. “Thank you to everyone who wrote letters, made phone calls and made their concerns known. Free Palestine,” the Instagram account @hcw4palestinewa said. …
The Australian medical establishment has become actively antisemitic and pro-Hamas:
Many of the more than 30 doctors, nurses, midwives and allied health professionals interviewed for this article cite this incident as one of many examples of how anti-Israel activism by healthcare workers since the October 7, 2023, massacre by Hamas has shaken the 2500-year-old bedrock principle of medicine, dating from Greek physician Hippocrates and his oath, which is that the best interests of patients always comes first. …
Using the exalted mantle of their medical professions, activist doctors and nurses routinely are amplifying anti-Jewish blood libels propagated by Hamas as well as adopting dehumanising anti-Jewish hate speech while often expressing support for proscribed terror groups such as Hamas that advocate mass slaughter of Jews.
By doing so, they are turning hospitals and medical clinics into ideological war zones instead of safe spaces where patients can be assured of getting the best possible medical care by empathetic healthcare providers. …
October 8:
Anti-Israel activism began almost immediately after the October 7 massacre when the protests that unfolded in Australian cities spilled into the wards and staffrooms of hospitals in Melbourne, Sydney and other capital cities.
Doctors and nurses wore “From the river to the sea” protest symbols to work and covered hospital toilet stalls and corridors with stickers that included a Star of David with a red line drawn through it.
At The Alfred Hospital in Melbourne, which has received tens of millions of dollars from Jewish philanthropists, such stickers were stuck to the bedside wall of an elderly Jewish patient in the hours before he died.
Meanwhile, a war of words was waged online. Social media posts by pro-Palestine doctors and other healthcare professionals veered into hate speech, antisemitism, Holocaust inversion and support of proscribed terror groups.
“Doctors and nurses were posting Nazi symbols and little caricatures of Jewish people but using the word ‘Zionist’ instead of ‘Jews’,” Jewish pediatric neurologist Dr Carly Debinski says. “They were so virtuous and obsessive about vilifying Jewish people.”
Almost three years later, it’s still going on virtually unabated:
Facebook groups where doctors and nurses had discussed mundane topics such as childcare became venomous in the aftermath of October 7, with Jewish members attacked or booted off if they mentioned the 200-plus Israelis held hostage in Gaza at the time, or the mutilations, rapes and slaughter of 1200 Israelis by Hamas on October 7.
At a major hospital in Melbourne, a Jewish intensive care unit nurse resigned after more than a decade in the job because management refused to tackle “online hate speech” by staff.
“If these people are willing to share these things on social media, imagine how they treat a (Jewish) patient face-to-face,” she says, requesting that her name be withheld. …
Hostile to Jewish patients:
Hospitals became hostile environments for Jewish patients and employees.
A Jewish health worker at a Melbourne teaching hospital was shirtfronted by a colleague from Ireland, where antisemitic incidents are at record highs, who demanded she apologise for the Gaza war. The same hospital HR department that weeks earlier transferred a staff member in the same unit for mimicking a foreign accent refused to take action when a complaint was lodged.
That pattern was repeated across the country as hospitals and healthcare regulators tolerated conduct against Jews that would have triggered disciplinary action if the conduct had targeted any other minority group, say numerous medical professionals who experienced this double standard. …
“Oops, sorry”:
For Charlotte Frajman, 64, the daughter of an Auschwitz survivor, having her religion listed in her medical records is a litmus test. “If I can’t have my Jewish religion on my medical records then it’s time to leave Australia because we are no longer safe here,” she says.
Frajman worries she was targeted during monthly appointments at a Melbourne hospital day clinic where she receives intravenous post-cancer treatment. During a session last year, a Muslim nurse, with whom she’d previously exchanged smiles, lost his kind demeanour when he saw Frajman’s religion on her hospital records while verifying her details.
“When it came to putting in the cannula, he took four attempts. It was incredibly painful,” Frajman recalls. “I was bruised for weeks. You would have thought he was a trainee nurse, not the senior nurse in charge.” When the same nurse again took four attempts to insert cannulas during subsequent visits, Frajman didn’t know what to think. “Then the Bankstown nurses thing came out, and my husband and I looked at each other and we said: ‘Oh my God.’ ”
Israeli-born Orit Brand begged a hijab-wearing radiographer to stop after the eighth failed attempt to insert a cannula into her vein at a radiology clinic at a Melbourne hospital. At her insistence another staff member was called and inserted the cannula at the first attempt “with no pain and no bruising”.
It’s nearly impossible to prove malice when it comes to painful needle insertion. However, in both cases, the hospital protocol of a maximum of two attempts by the same practitioner was breached, according to nurses who work at the hospitals in question.
“The needles, it is a story that keeps repeating,” says Nurit Hadad, a NSW-based mental health nurse counselling victims of antisemitism. “This is the easiest way to hurt people. They say: ‘I’ve done my best but I just couldn’t find a vein.’ ”
Midwife Sharon Stoliar has heard many horror stories since October 7. Among them, a Jewish woman who cried in agony for hours the night after a C-section at a Sydney hospital where she was “left to lie in a pool of blood with no pain relief” while her baby screamed in its cot alongside hers. When the nurse eventually arrived, she treated her roughly and with no compassion. …
While hospitalised in the ICU ward of an Adelaide hospital, Julia, a Jewish patient who asked that her family name be withheld, sobbed after being given a bedside lecture by her nurse denying the events of the Holocaust and the October 7 massacre.
Sounds like 1920s Germany:
Jewish medical students and trainee doctors have been ostracised by fellow students. Some have been verbally attacked by patients and taunted by superiors. They are too afraid to go public because of concerns that it will affect their chances at getting accepted in highly competitive specialist training programs. Indeed, many of those interviewed for this article asked for their names to be fully or partially withheld because of safety or job concerns. …
Slurping up Hamas lies:
It is a testament to the effectiveness of Hamas’s propaganda machine that two days later, hundreds of medical workers dressed in hospital scrubs protested in Sydney and Melbourne chanting “stop hospital bombings”, even though the only Gazan hospital that had been bombed was al-Ahli and it had been hit by a misfired Palestinian rocket.
The same protesters outraged by what they claimed was Israel’s targeting of healthcare workers in Gaza were silent about Hamas firing rocket-propelled grenades at Israeli ambulances on October 7, killing paramedic crews, as well as murdering many Israeli first-aid workers during the massacre including a doctor and paramedic slaughtered as they treated the injured at Kibbutz Be’eri’s clinic.
Mental health crazies:
The medical specialty that seems to be most infested with antisemitism is mental health. Calling on Israelis to commit suicide, a Queensland-based psychotherapist posted on X, “You aren’t fit to live”. An academic working in the psychiatry department of a prominent Australian university put up a Holocaust inversion post on X comparing queues at food distribution centres in Gaza to concentration camp gas chambers during the Holocaust.
Mental health counsellor Hadad had a panic attack in the regional NSW Headspace office where she worked at the time when after October 7 a colleague draped her adjacent desk with a keffiyeh.
“If someone is coming with a keffiyeh to a workplace, Australian people who have nothing to do with Middle Eastern culture … it’s a statement of violence,” says Hadad. “It represents the people trying to kill me.”
Her managers refused Hadad’s request to ban protest symbols at work. After months of feeling unsafe at work, Hadad quit her job. …
Antisemitic double standard:
As for the doctor who posted the Hitler quote and a post describing Jews as “loathed slime”, health oversight boards closed the complaint without taking action, as they did for complaints about numerous other doctors who posted antisemitic, terror idealisation and pro-Hamas content online.
“Regulators have shown clear double standards in the handling of complaints,” says Stoliar. She says sometimes the same AHPRA staff have acted against Jewish health practitioners targeted by baseless complaints, while ignoring complaints about blatantly antisemitic and terror idealisation posts by pro-Palestine healthcare workers by claiming these posts were made in personal capacities. …
Some Jewish and pro-Jewish doctors and nurses received letters from AHPRA accusing them of Islamophobia for posting think-tank reports debunking genocide claims or for posts suggesting that the writing had been on the wall for the Bondi attack. …
Honorably setting a good example:
For Melbourne pediatrician Debinski, Australia became so toxic for Jews after October 7 that she is happy she moved to Israel, where she works at Sheba Medical Centre, one of Israel’s largest hospitals near Tel Aviv.
She is part of a team of Jewish, Arab, Muslim, Christian and Druze doctors and nurses, treating children from all communities, including Gazan children brought to Israel for medical treatment.
Israel, she says, could teach Australia lessons about cultivating a culture of collaboration by medical teams from many walks of life whose creed is that patient care is paramount and personal baggage stays at home. For Debinski, the post-October 7 activism in Australian healthcare might have been done “under the guise of humanitarianism but it was really just a poisonous hatred of Jews”.
This is an example of where multiculturalism fails. On many issues, we cannot afford to have multiple cultures. We shouldn’t have to ask whether this a proper Western hospital or a hospital where the culture is to harm people the staff don’t like. We need a monoculture on issues like free speech, good medical care for all, and liberty — which are incompatible with Sharia and antisemitism.
Of course, the advocates of multiculturalism always try to confuse the picture by obsessing on irrelevant trivialities like food and skin color, because it makes them feel so superior and enlightened. (Talk about the Dunning-Kruger effect!)
A reader comments:
The stories about medical staff clearly using needles to torture patients they don’t Iike is very disturbing; it’s almost hard to read.
Wait until whites are more of a minority and all the self-hatred/anti-white hatred taught by the left in schools and universities really starts to take effect.
It won’t just be Jewish patients being treated like this. It’ll be all of us whites.
This is the part the suicidal empaths haven’t realised: instead of “being nice to us” in return for us inviting them in and giving away to them everything we had, they’re going to treat us like second- and third-class citizens once we’re a minority.
That’s the really stupid part of supporting mass immigration from countries with incompatible cultures, predominantly Muslims and Africans.
Whites in W Europe, the UK, Australia etc are going to get trodden on hard, eventually.
