Some pro-Palestine encampments are dissipating at universities that promise to more transparently disclose their academic and research ties to Israel. Most notably, University of Sydney vice-chancellor Mark Scott on Tuesday invited campers to participate in a working group that will ...
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USyd vice-chancellor: ‘river to sea’ and ‘intifada’ not hate speech
University of Sydney vice-chancellor Mark Scott says chants such as “intifada” and “from the river to the sea” do not cross the line into hate speech and insists his institution has acted where people have exceeded “legitimate protest”. The vice-chancellor ...
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University chancellors are attempting to find the right balance between freedom of speech and ensuring safety on university campuses, as tensions continue to rise between Jewish students and pro-Palestinian protesters chanting “from the river to the sea” at Melbourne’s biggest campus. The University ...
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