NSW Labor frontbencher Walt Secord has accused the NSW Education Department of protecting a staff member who earlier this year wrote a “vile anti-Semitic pro-Hitler” Facebook post by formally blocking an inquiry into the matter.
NTEU branches pass Palestinian solidarity motions
The motions decried “Israel’s violent ethnic cleansing and settler-colonialism”
May 27, 2021
On Wednesday, the University of Sydney and UNSW branches of the National Tertiary Education Union (NTEU) both passed motions calling on members to “participate in active solidarity with Palestinian members, including in ongoing demonstrations.”
The USyd motion passed with 78% of members in favour, while 9% were against and 12% abstained.
The motions decried “Israel’s violent ethnic cleansing and settler-colonialism” and “call[ed] attention to” appeals for “academics worldwide to boycott Israeli universities until such time as…basic prerequisites for justice were achieved.”
The USyd motion noted that 70 members of staff had pledged to “not engage in any professional association with Israeli academic, research or government institutions…until Israel complies with international law and elementary principles of
"Eliminate Israel" is the aspiration of Hamas and other terrorist groups and their backers in Iran, says Sky News host Chris Kenny.
The remarks come after a federal Labor MP allegedly posed in a Melbourne University ALP club picture which "parroted" the slogan of Hamas on the bottom line: "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free".
"For a Federal Labor MP to be associated with this, and for a University Labor group to spout it, is truly disgusting," Mr Kenny said.
"When objections were raised, they deleted the post - but it is hard to delete such awful hatred and extremist goals - which is why the conflict so often seems intractable."
Mr Kenny went on to speak about the issue of anti-Semitism with the Australasian Union of Jewish Students' Gabi Stricker-Phelps.
Discussing recent anti-Semitic remarks on an online university forum, Ms Stricker-Phelps said there was "no doubt" about its anti-Semitism.
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Mightier than the sword: A history of student journalism at USyd
For decades, student journalism has served to expose the horrors that lurk beneath the surface of an otherwise innocuous campus. Source: University of Sydney Archives
One of the first stories I ever heard about
Honi Soit was a bizarre tale of censorship. In 1979, Tony Abbott was President of the Students’ Representative Council (SRC). The story goes that Liberals on campus would request archived editions of
Honi Soit from the Rare Books section of Fisher Library. Then, they would cut the pages out of them, graffiti over them, and tear them up. There are even rumours of