‘People are spoiling for a fight’: The undoing of two NSW Health nurses caught on vile video

What has happened to our tolerant society, where people with different views can still coexist? These days people are spoiling for a fight.

Even if you’re not Jewish, many Australians will be feeling a little bit less safe going into a hospital today than they would have last week.

Because it is not often that you see someone’s prejudices displayed so publicly, like in the viral video of the two NSW Health nurses in their scrubs at Bankstown Hospital, happily spitting out their vile, racist thoughts about Jews with unrestrained glee.

Their views – one made a “cut throat” gesture with his hand before bragging he had sent Jewish patients to hell and the other said if she had the opportunity she would kill a Jewish patient – were shocking to the core.

The two nurses, Ahmad “Rashad” Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, have been banned from working in health facilities across Australia after their anti-Semitic tirade.

But they seemed to be champing at the bit to have their say about Jews to Max Veifer, via the app Chatruletka.

Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, wearing their NSW Health uniforms were filmed declaring they refuse to treat Israeli people and would "kill them" if they present to their ward. Picture: NewsWire

Israeli influencer Max Veifer.

Of course, they didn’t know he was an Israeli influencer, because there are no names displayed on the screen.

The app brings random people together to have a conversation. Sometimes, it is a nice one. Quite often it is not.

This app makes easy content for social media influencers and Mr Veifer has been using it to out people with anti-Semitic views.

He probably couldn’t believe his luck when by chance he was paired with these two.

Of course, he was recording the conversation and once it was done he uploaded it on TikTok, where it went viral.

Why anyone would want to go online and have a row with someone they have never met is beyond me. We have faceless keyboard warriors who troll and terrorise people online. Now this app allows strangers to spew their hatred via video link. They can look into the eyes of the person they don’t agree with and tell them exactly what they think.

The app says it prohibits threats and insults and it is moderated, but not in real time.

Australia’s online watchdog warns that although the app is for adults only, there is no proper age verification system.

It just shows what I have been thinking for some time. People are spoiling for a fight these days and tolerance is a thing of the past.

The nurses probably thought this video would never be seen. While this online confrontations may be distasteful – and a backward step for society – it’s revealed an even uglier truth: that anti-Semitism in Australia is lurking where we least expect it.