When news of the shocking anti-Semitic hate spouted by two Sydney nurses broke, the first reaction of peak Islamic bodies and Muslim politicians was that the pair were being scapegoated. In a sense, this is not entirely untrue. As I’ve already reported, violent anti-Semitism is not just endemic in the Australian Muslim community (and the worldwide ummah), but also disturbingly commonplace in the health system.
So, yes, in a sense, the two nurses are scapegoats. Which is not to say they’re innocent or didn’t entirely deserve their punishment. Instead, like Milli Vanilli in pop music in the ’80s, or Harvey Weinstein in the movie business, they’re being ostentatiously punished, while a whole lot more, possibly systemic, wrongdoing goes unpunished.
Which perhaps shouldn’t surprise us, when it comes to the medical community. It’s often discreetly glossed over that doctors were the single biggest professional group in the Nazi party in 1930’s Germany.
Australian midwife Sharon Stoliar posted an ‘open letter’ video on Instagram (reposted here on X), alleging that anti-Semitism is widespread in the Australian health system.
I raised the alarm about this not long after October 7 happened, when nurses and midwives were chanting, ‘from the river to the sea’ while wearing NSW health uniforms.
I wrote an open letter to Nurses and Midwives explaining that this chant is a call for the annihilation of Jews and that they should not be shouting this genocidal chant, let alone whilst wearing NSW Health uniforms. I also had meetings with AHPRA asking for something to be done about it in terms of regulation.
Instead of anything being done to punish the anti-Semites, Stoliar was targeted for retribution.
AHPRA and the HCCC received eight complaints from me, mostly about the post that I wrote, asking to have me deregistered. Whilst initially those complaints were dismissed, two of the complainants went on to ask for a review of the outcome, causing the HCCC to investigate and place formal corrective comments on my registration. All without my knowledge and without giving me my legal right of reply to these complaints […]
Do you see the double standards? I asked for the end of a genocidal chant by NSW Health staff while wearing their uniforms. Instead, I get formal corrective comments and threats of jail time.
Even when wrongdoers are exposed, they escape any punishment.
A Melbourne obstetrician accused of making “racially motivated” comments towards a midwife married to a Jewish man has avoided punishment under the nation’s health regulator, with authorities saying she claimed she “never intentionally meant to cause harm”.
Miranda Robinson was reported to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency last year by midwife Sharon Stoliar, after Dr Robinson accused Ms Stoliar of “almost certainly” being behind an anonymous Instagram account posting about anti-Semitism in healthcare and the conflict in the Middle East because she was a “POC” (person of colour) and married to a Jewish man.
Dr Robinson also said Ms Stoliar had been “brainwashed” and that she would be “very worried” to be one of her patients, and also claimed in a private conversation her family were billionaires connected to the “Jewish mafia” and “dirty dirty money”.
Those are unabashedly anti-Semitic comments, peddling the line that wicked Jews surreptitiously use their money to exert control. It’s the sort of stuff you’d expect to read on a neo-Nazi website. Instead, it came from a senior medical practitioner.
And AHPRA, which had surreptitiously sanctioned Stoliar, the whistleblower, chose to do nothing about it.
AHPRA said in August last year that its reasons for not taking action against Dr Robinson were that she had completed “formal education” on social media usage and “demonstrated her commitment to uphold the professional standards with respect to appropriate conduct on social media”.
Despite this, in November Dr Robinson wrote on social media said she “loved” the Netherlands after a violent incident involving Israeli soccer fans in Amsterdam that sparked accusations of anti-Semitism.
Dr Robinson also wrote in a private message, obtained by the Australian, to an Instagram account on January 31, 2024, that she laughed about Ms Stoliar requesting in her AHPRA complaint that she take a Jewish and South Asian cultural awareness course, and visit the Melbourne Holocaust Museum.
With astounding chutzpah, Robinson describes herself on social media as ‘friendly and inclusive’.
This is far from the only, and, unbelievably, certainly not the worst example of virulent anti-Semitism in the medical community.
A Melbourne doctor who praised terrorist group Hamas and its former leader, Yahya Sinwar, has quietly begun work at a new hospital despite resigning from another just months ago after being exposed for his horrific social media posts.
Mohamed Ghilan resigned last year from Caulfield Hospital – in an area with a large Jewish community – when colleagues raised concerns about his “racist and inflammatory” social media content, in which he shared pro-Hamas propaganda.
Ghilan bragged that, “I am Hamas, they are Hamas, we are all Hamas.” Immediately after the October 7 massacre, he exhorted his fellow Muslims to copy massacre mastermind Sinwar, “or die trying”.
The Australian can reveal Dr Ghilan began working in the rehabilitation ward, as a specialist in training, at a hospital in Melbourne’s northeast on February 3, despite apparently being reported to Victoria Police and the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency in December after co-workers discovered his social media posts […]
A dossier sent to Health Minister Mark Butler two years ago blew the whistle on rising anti-Semitism in Australia’s healthcare sector, but it appears the red flags were never acted upon.
Jackie Rakov, the doctor who sent the dossier to Mr Butler, broke her silence on Wednesday, slamming the federal government’s lack of will to combat workplace racism.
Other doctors have complained that quietly shuffling Ghilan to another hospital is reminiscent of how institutions refused to deal with serial paedophiles under their authority. There is no record of any active AHPRA investigation into Ghilan.
Don’t believe for a minute that the two nurses are in any way the sole exceptions.
