Jul 16, 2026 – 12.00am
In May 2024, as protests and encampments spread across Australian university campuses, I wrote an opinion piece calling out the antisemitism I was witnessing and arguing that universities must be places of enlightenment, never places of fear. By that afternoon, I had received hundreds of emails and messages from grandparents, parents, community and political leaders, and from very frightened students at universities across the country.
That response told me that many Australians felt the same way but had not felt they had permission to say so. That silence, I believe, is part of what allowed antisemitism to take hold.
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