Leeser calls for university audits of Israel-Palestine courses at antisemitism inquiry

Leeser's seven-year-old son experienced trauma after Bondi attack and now fears attending synagogues and communal events, reflecting broader security concerns for Jewish community.

In the wake of October 2023 and a fatal attack on Australian soil, a nation is asking what its institutions owe to communities living in fear. Julian Leeser, Australia's shadow education minister, appeared before a royal commission to argue that universities have failed Jewish students — not through malice, perhaps, but through inattention — and that the time for voluntary goodwill has passed. His call for mandatory audits and a standardized definition of antisemitism reflects a broader tension that democracies have long struggled to resolve: how to protect the vulnerable without narrowing the

Leeser calls for university audits of Israel-Palestine courses at antisemitism inquiry

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