THE COURTS:

BRISBANE: A Palestinian-born general surgeon will appear in court later today charged under the Queensland LNP Government’s new antisemitism laws banning specific phrases.

Dr Medhi Khair, a staff surgeon at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital (RBWH), was last night arrested and charged under the recently passed laws that ban the use of the phrases “globalise the intifada” and “from the river to the sea”.

“I’m still very confused about what I am supposed to have done to breach the law,” Dr Khair said. “It was a very busy day at the hospital, I know that much.

“I started work in the morning and performed a couple of fairly straightforward operations before being called on in the afternoon to perform a hepatectomy – a partial resection to remove a tumour.

“It was a long operation but everything went well and the patient should now be cancer free.

“As I was putting in the final stitches I received an urgent call from the maternity ward where a birth was not going to plan.

“I quickly finished up stitching then ran to the other theatre, jumped into new scrubs, washed and scrubbed and then performed an emergency caesarean.

“Luckily that operation also went well and mum and bub are both doing well.”

Dr Khair said it was just after he had showered and was changing to finally head home that he was approached by two policemen who advised him he was to be arrested and charged with making an antisemitic statement in breach of the new law.

“I’m still at a total loss to know what I did wrong,” he said.

“All I can remember after all the operations was walking down the corridor towards the doctors’ change rooms, but because it was by then early evening I detoured to check on a young boy whose circumcision I’d performed earlier in the day.

“His parents were at his bedside and asked if it had been a busy night for me. All I said was yes, it had been busy and that I had just gone from the liver to the C-section.

“It wasn’t long after that that the cops turned up,” he said.

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