A plan of action from the Sky Antisemitism Summit, held on 20 February 2025.

ECAJ co-CEO Alex Ryvchin presented the 15-point Plan of Action to defeat anti­semit­ism in Australia at the con­clu­sion of the Sky Anti­semit­ism Summit:

National Security

1. The federal gov­ern­ment should declare the existence of a National Emergency and establish a Joint Counter-Terrorism Taskforce led by a single minister to coordin­ate and mobilise all relevant agencies in the fight against anti­semit­ic terror before we have a major terror attack in this country.

2. Uniform policing guidelines should be estab­lished, and intel­li­gence and law enforce­ment should be trained in under­stand­ing what anti­semit­ism is and how it is expressed so they can identify and prosecute those who commit crimes. This training can be extended to the legal and health pro­fes­sions, and others as necessary.

Education

3. Anti­semit­ism education should be included within the national cur­riculum.

4. A public awareness and advert­ising campaign to debunk the ideology of anti­semit­ism and undermine its appeal, par­tic­u­larly directed at young audiences.

Universities

5. There should be a national ban on encamp­ments; the dis­rup­tion of lectures by student pro­test­ers; and external organ­isa­tions or indi­vidu­als orches­trat­ing campus protest activ­it­ies.

6. A judicial inquiry into anti­semit­ism at Aus­trali­an uni­ver­sit­ies, which should include the invest­ig­a­tion of foreign funding of student protests.

7. Uni­ver­sit­ies must disclose all sources of funding from foreign gov­ern­ments and found­a­tions with links to foreign gov­ern­ments or to listed terrorist organ­isa­tions.

8. There needs to be legis­la­tion to overcome restric­tions on dis­cip­lin­ary action against academics who support violence or vilify students.

Preachers and charities spreading hate

9. Religious and other char­it­able insti­tu­tions should have their charity status and all funding revoked if they promote racism – including anti­semit­ism – or display terrorist symbols.

10. Greater scrutiny of the sources and use of funds admin­istered by charities to ensure that they are not used to support terrorism or carry out activ­it­ies outside of their char­it­able purpose.

Migration Act and Citizenship

11. Immig­ra­tion officers must be trained to recognise anti­semit­ism and to assess whether applic­ants have promoted anti­semit­ism which would dis­qual­i­fy them under the character test. This is par­tic­u­larly relevant for those seeking entry from places with pervasive anti­semit­ic education.

12. The Migration Act should be enforced or, if necessary, amended so that anti­semit­ic conduct is grounds to refuse a new visa or cancel an existing visa.

Social media

13. Intro­duc­tion of Algorithms Reg­u­la­tion legis­la­tion as a national security Counter Foreign Inter­fer­ence priority. This legis­la­tion would target hostile dic­tat­or­ships.

Cultural institutions

14. Gov­ern­ment grants to festivals and indi­vidu­als should come with a condition that the recipient does not spread racism and that grants can be revoked.

15. There must be a balance of rep­res­ent­a­tion on literary and cultural festival boards and among senior staff respons­ible for pro­gram­ming choices.