Adelaide University: "No Jew World Order"

Jewish students have faced renewed harassment and intimidation from extremists during the recent orientation week on campuses across Australia.

The newly re-formed Jewish Students’ Society at the Australian National University (ANU) confronted significant abuse during the Market Day clubs and societies event.

Peter Wertheim,  executive director of The Executive Council of Australian Jewry, told J-Wire: “The spate of racist incidents against Jewish students on campuses at the Australian National University, the University of NSW and the University of Adelaide, are a disgraceful reflection of the deterioration that has occurred in the prevailing culture of student and academic life not only in Australia but also at many universities throughout the western world.  The nature of the hostility and the epithets directed against Jewish students are unambiguously antisemitic.   The veneer of anti-Zionism is wearing increasingly thin.    The student organisations that spawn this sort of behaviour will have to get over their narcissistic belief in their own infallibility and do some serious soul-searching. The same applies to the handful of academics who conceive of their role as advocates for an anti-Israel agenda rather than as scholars engaged in rigorous and dispassionate research and analysis.”

J-Wire posed questions to Federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne. We received the responses from a spokesman.

ANTI-SEMITISM has raised its head at another of the country’s most prestigious tertiary institutions, with racist graffiti appearing at the University of Adelaide.

Boycotted Israeli embraced by other fellows

A HEBREW University political scientist whose initial bid for a fellowship application was rejected as part of a boycott against Israel has arrived in Australia expressing outrage at the action taken by Sydney academic Jake Lynch.