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Student union rescinds anti-Israel motion

Student union rescinds anti-Israel motion

February 22, 2024 / AJN / By Peter Kohn "You don't need to be Jewish to see something wrong, something that's hateful, and an agenda that's purely antisemitic ... many Jewish students feel unsafe on campus." Australia’s Jewish student leadership felt encouraged this...

Back to uni session

Back to uni session

Many of the things that we see coming out of universities are happening from student unions, they are not coming from the universities themselves,” says Noah Loven

Facing 2024 as a Jewish student leader

Facing 2024 as a Jewish student leader

AUJS president NOAH LOVEN considers how Jewish students need to be supported as they confront the growing hostility to any association with Israel on Australian campuses.

Statement on Amichai Chikli

Statement on Amichai Chikli

As elected Jewish student leaders from different countries representing over 160,000 committed Jewish students at the American Jewish Committee Global Forum, we feel compelled to condemn Israel’s Minister of Diaspora Affairs, Amichai Chikli, scheduled to speak at this...

New shaliach for AUJS

New shaliach for AUJS

AJN STAFF JUNE 16, 2023 THE connection between Diaspora Jews and the state of Israel is more crucial today than ever, the Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS's new shaliach says. The Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) and the Jewish Agency for Israel (JAFI)...

Statement Regarding the University of Adelaide’s Rejection of IHRA

Statement Regarding the University of Adelaide’s Rejection of IHRA

To our members and the wider community, As you may know, on the 11th of April the University of Adelaide published what they have called a “Statement Regarding Freedom of Speech”. It was in this statement that the University of Adelaide shared that they will not be...