Australian Health Workers Suspended After Threatening Israeli Patients
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia denounced the comments, caught on video amid a spate of antisemitic incidents, as “sickening and shameful.”
Two Australian medical workers caught on video making threats against Israeli patients have set off an uproar in a country where there has been a spate of antisemitic attacks in recent weeks.
“I won’t treat them,” one of the workers, wearing medical scrubs and a hijab, is heard saying in the video. “I’ll kill them.”
Discussing Israeli patients who had come to the hospital near Sydney, a co-worker, also dressed in scrubs, can be seen ominously running a finger across his neck
The workers appeared to be speaking from inside a medical facility. Neither has been identified publicly by officials.
Australian officials have been quick to denounce the comments captured on the video, which went viral after a pro-Israel content creator posted it online.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Tuesday called the threats “sickening and shameful.” He said the two workers, identified as employees of Bankstown Hospital, had been suspended. He also said in a statement that they had been referred to the police for a criminal investigation.