ECAJ submission to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights Inquiry into Antisemitism at Australian Universities.

The ECA­J’s sub­mis­sion repeat­ed its call for a judi­cial inquiry into anti­semitism at Aus­tralian uni­ver­si­ties, say­ing:

We remain of the view that a judi­cial inquiry into anti­semitism at Aus­tralian uni­ver­si­ties is nec­es­sary and urgent for all the rea­sons set out in our sub­mis­sion to the Sen­ate Inquiry. How­ev­er, in the inter­im we seek to improve the cir­cum­stances of Jew­ish staff and stu­dents at uni­ver­si­ties by assist­ing your Com­mit­tee with prac­ti­cal rec­om­men­da­tions for imme­di­ate adop­tion.

The ECA­J’s sub­mis­sion is divid­ed into the fol­low­ing sec­tions:

1. The con­tem­po­rary real­i­ty of anti­se­mit­ic activ­i­ty at Aus­tralian uni­ver­si­ties
2. Uni­ver­si­ty frame­works for pre­vent­ing and respond­ing to, anti­semitism at uni­ver­si­ties,
   includ­ing laws, rules, poli­cies and oth­er mea­sures to pro­tect the safe­ty and well­be­ing
   of stu­dents, staff and aca­d­e­mics
3. The effec­tive­ness and ade­qua­cy of those frame­works
4. The sup­port pro­vid­ed to stu­dents, staff and aca­d­e­mics expe­ri­enc­ing anti­semitism at
   uni­ver­si­ties
5. Inter­na­tion­al expe­ri­ences and best prac­tices in deal­ing with anti­se­mit­ic activ­i­ty at
   uni­ver­si­ties

• Con­clu­sion
• Appen­dix – List of rec­om­men­da­tions

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•  ECAJ sub­mis­sion to Par­lia­men­tary Joint Com­mit­tee on Human Rights Inquiry into Anti­semitism at Aus­tralian Uni­ver­si­ties (PDF: 1.96MB)

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