It is rank hypocrisy to deny Palestinian freedom fighter Leila Khaled a visa or a platform to speak, while Labor is going visas to former Israeli army people wanted for war crimes. Peter Boyle reports.
Jake Lynch
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Sydney University is attempting to downgrade the status of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (CPACS).
A university spokesperson said they were 鈥渃urrently considering the possible transition of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies from a centre into a department鈥. The spokesperson claimed the move followed an external review of the viability of the centre, raised because of a decline in student numbers.
The University of Sydney has found no grounds to dismiss Associate Professor Jake Lynch as director of the university鈥檚 Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, following its investigation into possible breaches of its code of conduct.
Lynch will keep his job and has been cleared of serious misconduct after an investigation into a campus protest left him facing dismissal.
This follows an announcement by the university in April clearing Lynch of accusations of anti-Semitism.
The University of Sydney has ramped up its bullying of students and staff who interrupted a lecture by a visiting Israeli colonel last month.
Several students who took part in the protest were sent 鈥渟how cause鈥 letters on April 15. Others had been summonsed to interviews about the protest.
Mia Sanders, one of the students who took part in the protest action, told 麻豆传媒 Weekly: 鈥淰ice chancellor Michael Spence is, once again, showing contempt for the university鈥檚 own charter by trying to silence dissent鈥.
Associate Professor Jake Lynch, a member of Sydney Staff for Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), was assaulted by an elderly Zionist woman during a demonstration in support of Palestine on March 11.
The assault occurred at Sydney University, during a pro-Israel talk given by Colonel Richard Kemp, a former commander of the British forces in Afghanistan and supporter of Israel.
Demonstrators interrupted Kemp鈥檚 talk, targeting his support for the Israeli occupation in Palestine, chanting 鈥淩ichard Kemp, you can鈥檛 hide, you support genocide.鈥