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The epidemic of antisemitism worldwide has now spread to hospitals, emergency rooms, doctors’ offices, nurses’ stations. From Australia to Amsterdam, Jews are alarmed. More on doctors’ and nurses’ expression of Jew-hatred, and the hatred that Jews experience both in person and online, can be found here: “Dutch Jewish Writer Recounts Being Denied Care by Pro-Palestinian Nurse,” by Ailin Vilches Arguello, Algemeiner, November 11, 2025:
A Jewish columnist from Amsterdam has publicly denounced yet another example of rising antisemitism in health-care settings, saying she was denied medical care by a nurse who refused to remove a pro-Palestinian pin shaped like a fist.
On Monday, Jonath Weinberger, a dual Belgian-Israeli citizen who moved to the Netherlands in 2024, described how a visit for urgent medical care quickly turned into an unsettling experience, in a column for the Dutch Jewish news site Jonet.
Two months ago, Weinberger required urgent medical attention and was taken to a local hospital, the name of which she chose not to disclose.
“As I stepped into the room with the doctor and nurse, I was shocked. The nurse was wearing a large pin shaped like a fist in the colors of the Palestinian flag,” she wrote in her column.
Feeling uncomfortable with the situation, Weinberger told the paramedic that she was uneasy about the nurse’s pin. The paramedic then “gently [or cautiously, depending on the translation]” asked the nurse if she could remove it.
“I didn’t feel safe being treated by someone displaying such a political statement,” Weinberger said.
But the nurse “reacted indignantly, muttered that she no longer wished to treat [her], and walked out of the room.”
Weinberger recalled having to wait for another nurse to arrive, despite her medical emergency, before she could finally receive treatment….
Medical personnel are supposed to provide a neutral setting for those they are treating. Nor are they allowed to deny treating someone on the basis of religion, or ethnicity, or political views. The nurse’s pin in the shape of a fist, and painted in the colors of the “Palestinian” flag, screamed her bias. Her walking out on her Jewish patient, leaving her to wait for another nurse to arrive when she needed emergency care, violated the code for medical personnel. The scorned patient, Jonath Weinberger, is contemplating suing the hospital for allowing its personnel to wear such symbols. If she does, and the judge in the case proves judicious, he will fine the hospital, which may in turn fire the nurse who insisted on visually proclaiming her support for the “Palestinians.”
Elsewhere in the Netherlands, local police opened an investigation into Batisma Chayat Sa’id, a nurse who allegedly stated she would administer lethal injections to Israeli patients.”
Sa’id threatened to murder Jews. What more do the police need to know in order to arrest her for making such threats? And after her arrest, will the Dutch Medical Council do its duty, and deprive her of the license to practice in the Netherlands? She can always find work at a hospital in Doha or Riyadh or Tehran.
In Italy, two medical workers filmed themselves at their workplace discarding medicine produced by the Israeli company Teva Pharmaceuticals in protest against the Jewish state and the war in Gaza.
Teva Pharmaceuticals won’t be effected; the drugs that these two medical workers discarded with such fiendish glee had already been paid for. They are only hurting the hospital where they work. And should they demand that the hospital cease to buy pharmaceuticals, both generic and branded, from Teva, that will only hurt the hospital’s bottom line, for it bought medicines from Teva in the first place because the Israeli company was the lowest-cost producer.
In Belgium, a local hospital suspended a physician after discovering antisemitic content on his social media, including a cartoon showing babies being decapitated by the tip of a Star of David and an AI-generated image depicting Hasidic Jews as vampires poised to devour a sleeping baby.
The same doctor came under fire after he recently diagnosed a nine-year-old patient by listing “Jewish (Israeli)” as one of her medical problems on his report….
This Belgian physician was suspended, but for how long? It’s unclear if this antisemitic doctor will lose his license, or merely be kept from practicing at the hospital for a certain period. To depict Jews as vampires, or as decapitators of babies, and to have listed on the nine-year-old Israeli girl’s medical record as one of her medical problems the fact that she Is “Jewish (Israeli)” ought to have been enough for him to have been struck off.
One notable case drawing attention involved Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan, a trainee trauma and orthopedic surgeon, who police arrested on Oct. 21, charging her with four offenses related to malicious communications and inciting racial hatred.
Aladwan’s arrest followed the UK’s top medical regulatory body, the General Medical Council (GMC), clearing her to continue treating patients. She had made antisemitic social media claims such as labeling the Royal Free Hospital in London :a Jewish supremacy cesspit” and asserting that “over 90% of the world’s Jews are genocidal.”
Aladwan wrote on April 29 that “I will never condemn the 7th of October,” referring to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, massacre across southern Israel, the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust.
It is flabbergasting that, after Aladwan’s spewing a river of hatred toward Jews, that the GMC refused to strike her off. Now that she’s been arrested, perhaps the GMC will reconsider, and do what it should have done in the first place.
Physician, heal thyself? Apparently, when in the grip of the pathological condition known as antisemitism, too many physicians, and nurses too, just can’t manage it. That’s why they need to have their medical licenses revoked. Medical councils, please do your duty.
