A wave of outrage and fear is sweeping through the mental health community in Monsey and Monroe as alarming revelations about Fatima Odetalla, a psychiatric nurse practitioner known on Instagram as @fatima_odie, expose a dark underbelly of apparent anti-Semitic venom. Operating a private practice that serves vulnerable clients—including a staggering number of unsuspecting Orthodox Jews—Odetalla’s public tirades have left colleagues “traumatized” and ignited a firestorm of concern over the safety of those in her care. The once-trusted healer now stands accused of wielding a double-edged sword: feigned empathy laced with a sinister agenda that could shatter the lives of her patients.
Odetalla’s social media presence is a virtual battleground of vitriol. In a gut-wrenching October 20, 2024, Instagram post, she unleashed a scathing attack on the Israeli flag flying over the Ramapo Police department and Town Hall, declaring, “The United Slaves of Israel guarantee no safety or justice for all. As an American citizen, I no longer feel secure in my community. Our elected officials of Rockland County support genocide. I’m outraged that my tax dollars are funding a Palestinian Holocaust and your inhumanity!”
On LinkedIn, she recounted a tale of her daughter’s alleged firing from a hospital after an award acceptance speech where she spoke about “genocide” in solidarity with Gazan residents. This saga, intertwined with her venomous accusations against NYU, Biden, Trump, and the U.S. government, paints a picture of a woman consumed by rage against institutions tied to Jewish interests, colleagues say.
Yet, her most disturbing allegiance emerges in her praise for Neturei Karta, the radical anti-Zionist Jewish sect. “She’s seducing us with her Yiddish words and crocodile tears, while secretly plotting to destroy everything we hold dear!” one mental health professional told Monsey Scoop.
Fears are mounting that Odetalla’s “Med Intifada”—a chilling call for a medical uprising—could infiltrate her treatment rooms. A colleague, shaken by a conversation with a long-term client, revealed, “This client swore Odetalla never hinted at her politics. But if she believes my people deserve to die, that’s not a difference of opinion—it’s a death sentence masked as therapy!” The client’s ignorance of Odetalla’s true beliefs, due to their lack of social media access, only deepens the betrayal felt by the Orthodox Jewish community in Monsey and Monroe, where frum families have unknowingly entrusted her with their mental well-being.
Odetalla’s Instagram is a gallery of outrage, featuring calls to “arrest Netanyahu” and protests against “settler fairness.” A December 13, 2024, teach-in on “Palestinian Genocide” at The People’s Forum in NYC, moderated by her ally Hesen Jabr RN, stands as a stark testament to her unapologetic stance. “It’s maddening that so many frum Jews are in her clutches, oblivious to the hate festering behind her smile,” raged another source. “They don’t see the Instagram posts calling for our destruction!”
Mental health experts are sounding a deafening alarm, warning of the ethical abyss Odetalla’s alleged biases represent. “This isn’t just about politics—it’s Jew hatred weaponized in a space of healing,” a colleague said.
What’s so sad is that the frum community uses this psychiatrist, who by the way seems to do great work for her clients, because her fee is affordable and she gives the time necessary to understand her client. Unfortunately, often the fee for a very quick visit by our community’s psychiatrists is simply unaffordable.
She is NOT a psychiatrist. Psychiatrists are physician doctors who go to Med school. She is an NP who called herself Doctor and mislead patients.
Please change title of this article. Psych NPs are not legally allowed to call themselves psychiatrists. Only MDs or DOs who have completed psychiatry residency which is 4 years after medical school can call themselves psychiatrists.
Lesson learned NEVER TRUST AN ARAB! They are cats inside waiting to pounce on the mice their prey! They can talk politely and are psychopathic pathological liars
Agree 100%
CORRECTION: Never trust a practicing Muslim. Muslims come in all types of ethnicities. Just to name a few: Indonesian, Malaysian, Pakistani, Arabs, Americans (converts to Islam).
She happens to be very good at what she does. This is a big shame. As Chaim mentioned, other good psychiatrists, physician doctors or otherwise are totally unaffordable for the average person and are “cats inside waiting to pounce on the mice their prey” financially. This must be addressed.
She is not a psychiatrist even though she presents herself as a doctor. She is a nurse practitioner and is misleading patients in more ways than one.
Nowadays I would stay away from anyone in the medical field who is Muslim (one can be Christian Arab. Arab is an ethnicity not a religion. There are Indonesian Muslims as well and they are far from Arab) . If they are prescribing medicine or in any way can affect a Jewish patient’s life one must assume they will do harm. Even the most innocent sounding Muslim is suspect (see the MO of the Muslim Brotherhood). Their RELIGION preaches the most vile venom against Jews (nothing to do with Zionism) and nowadays every practicing Muslim has an inner hatred against Jews no matter how they affiliate themselves with Zionism. The frum/Hasidic community is NOT immune from this.