Second Nurse Charged Over Viral Comments About Harming Israeli Patients

Ahmed Rashid Nadir, 27, arrested on March 4, has been charged with using a carriage service to menace, harass, or offend, and possessing a prohibited drug.

Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital where two NSW public hospital nurses allegedly made anti-Semitic comments and boasted they would kill Israeli patients in Sydney, Australia on Feb. 13, 2025. AAP Image/Dean Lewins

The second former nurse caught on film making anti-Israeli comments during a video call at Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital in Sydney’s west has been charged.

Ahmed Rashid Nadir, 27, was arrested on the evening of March 4 and charged with using a carriage service to menace, harass, or offend, as well as possessing a prohibited drug.