Brother of nurse at the centre of anti-Semitic scandal makes a stunning claim about the viral video that police will investigate – as the Israeli influencer who unmasked the ‘vile’ pair issues a grim warning to ALL Australians

The brother of a NSW nurse at the centre of an anti-Semitic video has claimed she was ‘set up’.

Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh from Bankstown Hospital in Sydney’s south-west, were filmed by Israeli influencer Max Veifer on an internet chatroom saying they would refuse to treat Jewish patients.

‘I’ll kill them,’ Abu Lebdeh said.

But Mohamad Abu Lebdeh leapt to his sister’s defence outside her home on Wednesday night, telling Daily Mail Australia that she was ‘baited’ into making the sickening remarks and that parts of the video were ‘cut out’ and ‘edited’.

‘Sarah has wanted to be a nurse her whole life. She loved her job. She helps people, she doesn’t hurt them,’ he claimed.

‘That video was a set up. You can see that it’s edited. You can see the jump cuts. 

‘Sarah said those things but she was pushed. She was baited.’

Mohamad also claimed that his sister was antagonised by Mr Veifer.

‘Sarah was born here, but has lost 70 family members in Palestine, completely wiped out,’ her brother added.

‘She snapped. Anyone would, hearing that.

‘To hear those things. It’s too much, but he cut that part out and made it look like she just said that.  

‘She was provoked. She is a nurse and has won awards.’

Police have since requested the full, uncut version from the influencer as investigations continue. 

Nadir and Abu Lebdeh are both expected to be charged under hate crime laws.

Mr Veifer broke his silence on Sharri Markson’s Sky News program on Wednesday night and issued a grim warning for all Australians about the rise of anti-Semitism. 

‘I hope I opened their eyes a little bit to this tremendous anti-Semitism that is going on in Australia and I hope they’ll finally start taking actions to prevent these events from happening,’ he said.

‘It’s not the only case. I just recorded it, right?

‘I dropped it on the internet, but how many other cases are happening in Australia. You should take this seriously.’

Earlier on Wednesday, Abu Lebdeh’s family told media that she was suffering ‘an extreme panic attack’.

Her uncle has insisted his niece was ‘sorry’ for her anti-Semitic rant and was so worked up ‘we might be calling an ambulance for her’. 

‘I’m trying to calm her down to see what the f*** happened,’ he told The Australian. 

‘She’s been a nurse for God knows how long. She’s never done anything to hurt anyone.’

The second nurse involved also broke his silence to insist his comments were ‘a joke and a misunderstanding’.

He vowed to apologise to the ‘Jewish community and anyone I’ve offended’ as soon as he had spoken to police.

‘It was a joke, a misunderstanding … I will use social media, anything, to apologise but I need to go and see the detectives first,’  Nadir told the Daily Telegraph.

‘I didn’t mean to offend. It wasn’t meant to be like this.

The health minister condemned the nurses’ actions.

‘This act of bastardry, this vile disgusting behaviour from two individuals will in no way diminish the value the secretary, myself as the minister, but more importantly our state has in the work that [NSW Health staff] do each and every day,’ he said.

‘If the investigation concludes that this behaviour has occurred, these individuals will never be working for NSW Health again.’