Nasser speaks with Sarah Schwartz, a human rights lawyer, Principal lawyer with Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service, and lecturer at Melbourne University Law School, and Dr Max Kaiser, an expert on antisemitism and Australian Jewish history and author of Jewish Antifascism and the False Promise of Settler Colonialism, both Sarah and Max are executive and advisory committee members of the Jewish Council of Australia (JCA).
They speak about their Jewish upbringing and their political consciousness shift on the Palestinian struggle, the conflation of criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism, their ousting from Jewish communities, and the Commission of Inquiry into Antisemitism at Australian Universities Bill 2024 (No. 2).
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Nasser Mashni