Organisers insist they have been largely respectful but a string of accusations is putting universities under pressure to act
azi salutes were allegedly performed during an Australian National University student association meeting this week – the latest in a string of accusations of antisemitism as pro-Palestine encampments enter their third week in Australia.
“Many of the student leaders of our protests are Jewish, and we see ourselves as standing on the shoulders of a long line of Jewish pro-Palestine and anti-war activists,” it said.Photograph: Alasdair Pal/ReutersOn Thursday, the University of Sydney’s branch of the National Tertiary Education Union voted overwhelmingly in favour of the institutional academic boycott of Israel and for the university to cut ties with weapons manufacturers.
It came as a 23-year-old woman has been charged by police over public nuisance after allegedly breaking into a Jewish academic’s office and urinating on the floor. Students at the university’s pro-Palestine camp – which has about 80 tents – say the woman who was charged had nothing to do with them.
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