Australian detectives have charged a Sydney woman over alleged antisemitic comments made in a video that was posted online.
Earlier this month New South Wales (NSW) detectives began an investigation into an alleged anti-semitic video that featured two people - Sarah Abu Lebdeh and Ahmad Rashad Nadir - at Bankstown Hospital being interviewed by an Israeli influencer.
It was circulated widely on social media.
The video, in which they appear to claim they won't treat Israeli people and boast of sending them to hell, sparked shock and outrage from other nurses, government officials and the wider community.
In an update today, investigators said a 26-year-old woman has been arrested after she attended Sutherland Police Station about 7.30pm (local time) yesterday.
Lebdeh was charged with three commonwealth offences including threaten violence to group, use carriage service to threaten to kill and use carriage service to menace/harass/offend.
NSW Police Commissioner Karen Webb said the charges were a major development in the exhaustive investigation.
"These charges have been laid following a lot of hard work and legal advice, received yesterday from the Commonwealth DPP," she said.
The Condell Park woman was granted conditional bail to appear at the Downing Centre Local Court on March 19, 2025.
Webb also confirmed the male nurse who appeared alongside Lebdeh was still under investigation, but police were yet to speak to him.
Nadir was taken to hospital for assessment earlier in February after paramedics were called to his Bankstown home following a "concern for welfare" report.
The investigation had not been straightforward due to the "jurisdictional challenges" involved due to Veifer's location, Webb said.
"Given the nature of this offending — where we had two people here in NSW and the recording made overseas — it's been a complex investigation. We're talking across borders," she told ABC radio.
Australia's health practitioner watchdog barred both nurses from working in the profession nationwide "in any context", while the pair have also had their registrations suspended by the NSW Nursing and Midwifery Council.
- Additional reporting by AAP
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