Hate rears its ugly head on campus (Australia)
EDUCATION Minister Christopher Pyne has called on Australian universities to take a firm stand against racism on campus following anti-Semitic incidents at three universities in the past week.
According to the Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS), members of far-left group the Socialist Alternative harassed and intimidated Jewish students in incidents at the Australian National University (ANU) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) during O-Week activities.
At the University of Adelaide, anti-Semitic graffiti was discovered on a campus sign that had been defaced with the slogan “No Jew world order” next to a Star of David containing the number 666.
In the wake of the incidents, a spokesperson for Pyne said: “Free speech in Australia does not extend to threats, intimidation and physical harassment. Incidents such as these have no place on campus or anywhere else.”
Pyne’s office added that the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement had given anti-Semitism “a fashionability among highly ignorant sections of the far left”.
more: http://www.jewishnews.net.au/hate-rears-its-ugly-head-on-campus/34283
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"O-Week" refers to "orientation week." I had to look it up!
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