One of the Bankstown Hospital nurses involved in a vile anti-Semitic rant has had his home raided by NSW Police a day after he was hospitalised.
Officers from Strikeforce Pearl executed search warrants at Ahmad Rashad Nadir’s Bankstown home on Friday night, but it was unclear whether he was there at the time.
Police are yet to lay charges against Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, four days after they told Israeli influencer Max Veifer they would kill their Jewish patients in a video that’s gone viral.
‘It’s Palestine’s country, not your country you piece of s***,’ Abu Lebdeh told Mr Veifer.
Both Nadir and Abu Lebdeh claimed they ‘won’t treat Israeli people’.
Abu Lebdeh added: ‘I’ll kill them.’
‘You have no idea how many (Israelis) came to this hospital and I sent them to Jahannam (hell),’ Nadir said, while making a throat-slitting gesture.
Nadir later insisted his comments were ‘a joke and a misunderstanding’, but both nurses were deregistered by NSW Health.
Ahmad Rashad Nadir was involved in a vile anti-Semitic rant while at work as a nurse at Bankstown Hospital
Abu Lebdeh’s home was not believed to have been searched by police.
NSW Police said they could not progress the investigation or charge the two nurses at the centre of the hate speech video until they were sent the ‘full and unedited’ vision of the viral clip.
Despite Mr Veifer posting the unedited 2.5 minute video on Instagram on Friday morning, NSW Police said they still had not received the original file from him.
‘Police are aware an extended version has been posted online, however nothing has been directly provided to NSW Police,’ a spokesman said.
‘Discussions between NSW Police and the influencer remain open and ongoing.’
Nadir was rushed to hospital over mental health concerns on Thursday night.
Sydney criminal lawyer Maggie Sten, of firm George Sten and Co, said after watching the video there was a case to support the nurses being charged.
‘I think there are several offences they could be charged with,’ Ms Sten said.
Footage released by a Jewish influencer from a public video chat forum showed nurses Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh hurling insults at Jews and claiming they wouldn’t treat them
‘One could be using a carriage service to menace, harass or cause offence, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in jail.
‘They are using a carriage service – a phone – to threaten the person on the other end. This includes the slitting of the throat gesture.’
Ms Sten said they could also be charged with intimidation offences.
In the unedited video posted on Friday, Mr Veifer asked if he was going to be killed because he served in the Israel Defence Forces, and Nadir said: ‘That’s definitely the answer. Correct.’
Abu Lebdeh then says that Israel ‘killed innocent people’.
She allegedly threatens Israeli patients and tells Veifer: ‘One day, your time will come, and you will die the most horrible death.’
State opposition police spokesman Paul Toole couldn’t understand why the pair had not yet been charged.
‘How much more evidence do you need to go ahead and charge somebody?’ he said.
