{"id":802089,"date":"2026-07-15T15:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/802089\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:33:10","slug":"western-sydney-university-chancellor-jennifer-westacotts-submission-to-the-antisemitism-royal-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/802089\/","title":{"rendered":"Western Sydney University chancellor Jennifer Westacott\u2019s submission to the antisemitism royal commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jul 16, 2026 \u2013 12.00am<\/p>\n<p>In May 2024, as protests and encampments spread across Australian university campuses, I wrote an<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/inquirer\/this-is-our-line-in-the-sand-act-now-to-end-hate-speech\/news-story\/d891841950d88f6f356407486b092918\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> opinion piece<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul 16, 2026 \u2013 12.00am In May 2024, as protests and encampments spread across Australian university campuses, I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-802089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}