Tanveer Ahmed - Psychiatrist, Author - The Bankstown Hospital Nurses and Antisemitism in Australia

Dr Tanveer Ahmed is a Sydney-based psychiatrist, author, and newspaper columnist. His books include The Exotic Rissole, Fragile Nation and In Defence of Shame. He has written regularly for the Australian Financial Review, The Australian and for the Sydney Morning Herald amongst other publications. He has served on local government and on multiple Boards and advisory committees. Today we discuss: - The recent controversy regarding the Bankstown Hospital nurses and antisemitism more generally in Australia - How seriously we should take those remarks and how they are similar and different to other forms of sectarianism that have existed in Australia - Whether identity politics is really a bad thing and why individuals need identity - To what extent the problem is ideology rather than simply long-standing intractable ethnic conflict - Other questions regarding national identity, Islam, liberalism and the west And much more. https://www.amazon.com.au/s?i=books-single-index&rh=p_27%3ATanveer%2BAhmed&s=relevancerank&text=Tanveer+Ahmed&ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1