The Israeli influencer who filmed two Bankstown nurses making anti-Semitic threats and claiming they wouldn’t treat Jewish patients has handed over the unedited clip to NSW detectives.
Max Veifer released the full clip of his chat with Rashad Nadir and Sarah Abu Lebdeh to his social media on Friday saying he had ‘nothing to hide’, but he had not handed it to detectives because he said the email address they provided was incomplete.
A text message from police to Mr Veifer obtained by Sky News showed the email address given to him for where to send the video contained no ‘@’ symbol.
‘Please give me a call. My name is Detective (deleted) from NSW Police in Australia and I will be facilitating the statement from you regarding the antisemitic incident online. Thank you,’ the message read, followed by the incomplete email address.
Mr Veifer claimed a representative of his had spent hours on the phone and online trying to get hold of someone working on the case before the broadcaster stepped in and put him in touch with the relevant officer.
The full clip of the interaction between Mr Veifer and the two Australians on public video chat app Chatruletka was then given to police about 8.50pm on Friday night.
Detectives are investigating whether any laws were broken by the pair, with hate speech that threatens violence or damage to property outlawed in NSW.
NSW Health said an initial investigation indicated that no patient care had been impacted, though a more in depth investigation would follow.
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
It’s understood detectives were negotiating with lawyers for the Bankstown Hospital nurses to attend a police station for formal questioning.
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.
He has reportedly been taken to hospital after police responded to a concern for welfare report at his townhouse.
The shocking included comments from the pair indicating they would refuse to treat Jewish patients.
Jewish influencer Max Veifer (pictured) provided the full clip to police on Friday night
‘It’s Palestine ‘s country, not your country you piece of s***,’ Abu Lebdeh told Mr Veifer in the video.
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 [hell],’ Nadir said, while making a throat-slitting gesture.
He later insisted his comments were ‘a joke and a misunderstanding’, but both nurses were deregistered by NSW Health.
Police previously 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.
‘Police are aware an extended version has been posted online, however nothing has been directly provided to NSW Police,’ a police spokesman said on Friday.
‘Discussions between NSW Police and the influencer remain open and ongoing.’
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.
‘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’.
State opposition police spokesman Paul Toole couldn’t understand why the pair had not yet been charged.
‘How much more evidence do you need?’ he said.
