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subscribe button. And this week, your host will be my Quillette boss, editor-in-chief, Claire

Lehman, who will be addressing a pressing problem in her native

Australia, the upsurge of anti-Semitism that followed the Hamas terrorist attacks of October

2023 and the Israeli invasion of Gaza that followed.

Now, this kind of anti-Semitism has been a problem in all Western nations, but for reasons

that Claire will discuss with her guest,

psychiatrist and journalist Tanvir Ahmed, it seems to have become particularly acute in Australia.

On October 9, 2023, for instance, just two days after the Hamas terrorist attacks,

and before the ensuing Israeli invasion of Gaza,

a large group of protesters openly chanted anti-Semitic slogans at the iconic Sydney Opera House.

And this month, two Australian nurses at Sydney's Bankstown Hospital, named Amad Rashad Nadir and

Sarah Abu Lebede, were caught on video declaring that they would

kill any Israeli patients who presented themselves for care. One claimed, improbably, that he'd

already sent Israelis to Jahanam, an Arabic word meaning hell. Claire and Tanvir spoke to

each other in Sydney earlier this week. Here is a

recording of their conversation. How did that affect you as a healthcare worker when that news broke?

Where the nurses were filmed, threatening potential Israeli patients and saying that they would harm

them and not treat them.

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