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Last month the University of Sydney's SRC passed an anti-Israel motion that has been condemned by the university's vice-chancellor. Picture: Facebook
June 30, 2022, 9:19 am
USYD student motion rebuked
'We do not tolerate antisemitic language'
By Carly Adno
The University of Sydney Students' Representative Council stands in solidarity with Palestine. Photo: Facebook
June 9, 2022, 11:19 am
‘This motion is awash with lies’
The University of Sydney SRC has passed a motion in solidarity with Palestine referring to Israel as an apartheid state, and condemning institutions and government parties in Australia for remaining complicit.
By Mia Gardiner
The University of Sydney. Photo: Knowledgeispower3
May 12, 2022, 9:36 am
Another hateful student motion
"The Student Union has been reluctant to engage with AUJS, leaving Jewish students feeling unheard by and uncomfortable with their representative body" - AUJS vice-president Alissa Foster
By Gareth Narunsky
The University of Sydney. Photo: Knowledgeispower3/Wikimedia Commons
May 5, 2022, 12:31 pm
USYD student council passes anti-Israel motion
“Picking and choosing from a series of complex historical events misleads the general student population, and is insensitive to those students directly impacted."
By AJN STAFF
The University of Sydney. Photo: Knowledgeispower3/Wikimedia Commons
February 17, 2022, 8:34 am
AUJS requests VC meeting
"The motion explicitly removes any student with a connection to Israel, including Jewish students, from the SRC's definition of the recognised student body..."
By AJN STAFF
USYD student Gabrielle Stricker-Phelps was heckled and silenced by others in the SRC meeting.
February 10, 2022, 8:05 am
Students’ Reprehensible Council
"Any corporation that sides with Israel is no friend of students..." USYD Students' Representative Council
By Gareth Narunsky
Professor Tony Weiss.
November 12, 2021, 7:00 am
Huge accolade for Tony Weiss
Professor Tony Weiss has received the 2021 PM’s Prize for Innovation, recognising his pioneering research and commercialisation of synthetic tropoelastin-based biomaterials, which can accelerate and improve the repair of human tissue.
By Evan Zlatkis
Macnamara MP Josh Burns. Photo: Auspic
February 4, 2021, 12:00 am
Burns demands union stop backing academic
Macnamara MP Josh Burns: 'Freedom of speech should not be used as an excuse to defend hate speech. Tim Anderson’s use of the swastika is indefensible'.
By Gareth Narunsky
The University of Sydney. Photo: Dreamstime.com
November 25, 2020, 1:55 pm
Antisemitism is alive and well at Sydney Uni
'The SRC’s support for Corbyn and gaslighting of world Jewry must be recognised for the antisemitic filth that it is'.
By Josh Feldman
Jeremy Corbyn. Photo: Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP
November 19, 2020, 12:00 am
‘Deplorable’ USYD motions back Corbyn
ECAJ: 'Like Corbyn himself, the supporters of the SRC resolution remain in denial of the anti-Jewish racism that flourished under Corbyn’s leadership'.
By Gareth Narunsky
The image published in student newspaper Honi Soit.
February 27, 2020, 12:31 pm
‘Textbook antisemitism’
University of Sydney student newspaper Honi Soit has denied claims of antisemitism after it published an image claiming Jews were responsible for killing Jesus.
By Shane Desiatnik
Richard Falk is set to speak in Sydney next month. Photo: Peter Haskin
June 20, 2019, 12:00 am
Furore over Falk visit
JEWISH communal leaders are concerned about plans for Richard Falk, a US academic who has endorsed conspiracy theories and who is widely accused of antisemitism, to visit Australia to speak at the NSW Parliament and at the University of Sydney.
By Peter Kohn
From left: AUJS University of Sydney president Janine Joseph, Jewish chaplain Rabbi Eli Feldman, university vicechancellor Dr Michael Spence, AUJS political affairs director Joshua Kirsh and chairperson Josef Wilkinson. Photo: Giselle Haber
May 30, 2019, 6:01 am
Sydney University’s show of solidarity
THE University of Sydney has expressed its support for Jewish students and staff, after it was revealed last week that a convicted terrorist planned to kill students wearing kippahs on campus.
Dr Lily Pereg (left) and sister Pyrhia Sarusi. Photo: JTA
February 1, 2019, 12:01 am
Sisters killed
ISRAELI-BORN academic Lily Pereg has been remembered as "a kind and generous person" and having "the soul of an angel". 
The University of Sydney. Photo: Tvphotos/Dreamstime.com
December 5, 2018, 3:13 pm
Academic faces the sack
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