OP article: 17 May 2025
Alternate article- Student general meeting demands USyd drop specious definition of antisemitism, cut ties with Israel - 18 May 2025
USyd response statement - University of Sydney does not condone student resolution: statement: 21 May 2025
Selected paragraphs:
Over 200 students packed a Student General Meeting at the University of Sydney this week, overwhelmingly rejecting the university’s new definition of antisemitism, designed to smear supporters of Palestine, and standing up to a crackdown on the right to protest.
The new Universities Australia definition of antisemitism, adopted by nearly all Australian universities, states that criticism of Israel can be antisemitic “when it calls for the elimination of the State of Israel”. It draws heavily on the widely-condemned International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition which has been opposed by organisations like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.
In the end, only two students voted against any of the motions. It was an incredibly important moment for the movement on campus in a context where the right to support Palestine is under serious attack.
When two Zionist students spoke against the motions, calling pro-Palestine protesters antisemitic and condemning Hamas, the entire auditorium turned their backs on them. In response to their claims, an anti-Zionist student from a Jewish family spoke in support of the motion to support the one-state solution, telling the crowd: “I’m tired of being represented by Jewish people that think defending the state of Israel is valid, so I decided to come and speak for myself.”
In the lead-up to the meeting, the University had also threatened to cancel the room booking for the SGM unless the meeting was recorded and every student who wanted to attend presented their identification to security. These demands were dropped after opposition from the SRC.
This is fucking horseshit. Sounds like every decision maker at Universities Australia is a criminally corrupt fascist. Any educator who doesn’t leave over this is unworthy of being an educator — but Australian universities have not been about education for a long time. It’s been enshittified by capitalism, and is all for profit.
Any educator who doesn’t leave over this is unworthy of being an educator
It’s been enshittified by capitalism
I think this is unfair, because as you say, we live under capitalism. What do you expect educators to do, be unemployed? Under capitalism, this is not a very enticing prospect.
Staff themselves ought not to be blamed on the decisions of admin.
It’s not like they get a vote (though, in my opinion, they should get to vote on top administrative positions, as should every workplace)
I agree, leaving isn’t the best way to protest this problem.
On the other hand, while staff themselves ought not to be blamed on the decisions of admin, we should also acknowledge that for them to do nothing is complicity. By-standing is not neutral behaviour. Some staff at multiple universities (and schools) have been involved in various forms of resistance, from direct physical support, to more passive resistance such as signing open letters and allowing students to make unauthorised announcements after lectures.
They ought to join their union, though I wonder if NTEU will backup their words with strikes in solidarity if these changes aren’t reversed:
https://www.nteu.au/News_Articles/National/NTEU_Statement_on_Israel_and_Palestine.aspx
There are many good rank and file members but often their work is undermined not just by management but by Labor.
Case in point Sydney Uni NTEU branch was lead by a militant independent faction that had management on the back foot during the last EBA negotiations until the cliquey Labor run state division and the national office stepped in to fuck them over. This same independent group is also largely responsible for the campaign that saw the NTEU national council adopt the BDS positions last year.
Unfortunately that grouping lost a couple of key branch positions to Labor Zionists who are doing their utmost to prove to everyone how great they are being nice to management while being absolutely fucking useless when it comes to defending or fighting for any of the gains made in the last EBA.
anyone got a link to the transition plan to a secular palestinian state?
Yeah mate, here you go🖕
Seeing as you’re a linux fan here’s a higher res link
cheers bud
got any more details though, it should be right there with your other books in the fantasy section
The pleasure is all mine fuckface.
Here’s some more details. It’s NSFW but I hear you and your mates are really into this kind of snuff.
wide of the mark again there budsky
i’m looking for the transition plan to a secular palestinian state as mentioned by the students in the article above
you have read the article right?
Oh sorry shitforbrains, the printer was jammed. Here’s a copy of the transition plan:
spoiler
now look cobber, if i didn’t know better i’d think you were having a bit of fun, you australians are so much fun!
unless of course you’re intellectually diverse in which case i apologize for asking you to use your brain
this is pretty much all i expected to get out of people like you anyway
np https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/staterev/
(If you insist on something more specific to their local conditions, you’ll first need to help end the ongoing genocide to give the people in Palestine a chance to write up such a detailed transition plan. They’re kind of busy right now and the Zionist Regime murdered most of their academics.)
there is no plan
would have been more concise
however, thanks for taking it vaguely seriously
