Video of two Sydney nurses allegedly making antisemitic comments to Israeli influencer struck from court case

A video of two Sydney nurses allegedly making antisemitic comments to an Israeli influencer has been ruled inadmissible as evidence as the pair prepare to go to trial. Ahmad Nadir, 28, and Sarah Abu Lebdeh, 27, have pleaded not guilty to being menacing and offensive when they allegedly said they would refuse to treat Israeli patients and threatened violence against them. The pair are due to face a trial at the end of August but the rejection of key footage has delivered a blow to the prosecution case. The judge, Michael McHugh, on Tuesday ruled that videos and any other recordings of the conversation could not be admitted as evidence. “I’ve come to the firm view that the video evidence must be excluded from each of the trials of the applicants,” he told Sydney’s Downing Centre district court. Lawyers for the pair earlier argued the nurses had been recorded without their consent while at Bankstown hospital in south-west Sydney , amounting to an illegal invasion of their privacy. One of the reasons given by McHugh for ruling out the video evidence was the already broad publication of the material online and in the media. Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email “The alleged utterances of the applicants during the chatroom interactions are on their face at the very least likely highly disturbing to right-minded people,” he said. Max Ilinsky, an Israeli popularly known as Max Veifer, recorded a video of his conversation with the nurses on the platform ChatRoulette in 2025. …