ECAJ Head of Legal Simone Abel

“The ECAJ would like to thank the national student ombudsman for taking the time to thor­oughly invest­ig­ate these com­plaints and for looking behind the insti­tu­tion­al smoke and mirrors.

“The NSO has found that UTS was insti­tu­tion­ally biased against Jewish students and utterly failed to protect them, denying them pro­ced­ur­al fairness and blaming them for what were legit­im­ate and reas­on­able com­plaints by turning the complaint process against them.

“UTS must now examine its culture from top to bottom and purge it of the anti-Jewish bias that has under­pinned every stage of its woefully poor response and the very conduct that was the subject of the com­plaints in the first place.

“Whatever UTS may say, it remains one of the worst campuses to be a Jewish student in Australia today. If you need evidence of that, you need only look at the vic­tim­isa­tion of Jewish students who gathered to mark the anniversary of October 7 recently, or the hateful pro­pa­ganda that spills out of Corner­stone Cafe.”

“If UTS wants to make its campus safe for Jewish students it needs to do more than apply process to their com­plaints. It needs to listen and it needs to take real action. Apologies ring hollow without mean­ing­ful change.”