BIll Shorten on Antisemitism at Australian Universities

Shorten: 'It shouldn't just be left to Jewish Australians to defend themselves'

Former opposition leader Bill Shorten has criticised a "pile-on" against Australian Jews and says war in the Middle East has exposed latent antisemitic hatred which has left Jewish Australians feeling unsafe in their own country.He says the hatred was stoked by "some protesters" and what has emerged since the Hamas raids on Israel and the subsequent attacks on Gaza shows one of the oldest hatreds in the world underlying Australian society.In a b…

BIll Shorten on antisemitism at Australian universities

Former opposition leader Bill Shorten says he believes the community and academic institutions underestimated latent antisemitism and have been surprised as it surfaced.

Campus Antisemitism Surges at Start of New Academic Year, New Report Finds

Illustrative: Pro-Hamas activists at Dartmouth College. Photo: New Deal Coalition/Instagram. Incidents of campus antisemitism continue to rise around the world, as revealed in a new monthly report published by the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) civil rights organization. Published by the group’s Antisemitism Research Center (ARC), the report said CAM recorded 53 antisemitic incidents on college campuses in the month of September, a 178 perce…