The Zionist Federation of Australia supports the Coalition’s and crossbench’s support for a judicial inquiry into campus antisemitism, and urges the Government to back it.
ZFA Director of Public Affairs Bren Carlill said, “The situation on campus is unprecedented and deeply troubling. Jewish students are being targeted, are being intimidated, and are staying away from campus. The level of antisemitism on campus was already at intolerable levels before the Hamas-Israel war began, and has only worsened since.
Dr Carlill continued, “The Australian community has the right to know what our publicly-funded universities did when they became aware of this antisemitism and what processes – if any – they put in place to reduce it, both before 7 October and since.”
Dr Carlill added, “Any inquiry into the current intolerable situation must have the power to compel university administrators to appear and produce relevant documentation. Any review that doesn’t will ultimately fail to understand the situation or to have the means to provide the recommendations to fix it. We are agnostic as to what form this review takes – a Senate inquiry or a judicial inquiry – but what we do know is that the situation is urgent and serious, and it is well-passed time for action.”
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