Universities face pressure over campus antisemitism as royal commission hears protest testimony

Jewish students and academics report experiencing fear, harassment, and intimidation on campuses; Professor Prawer and his family experienced significant distress from the office occupation.

On the anniversary of the Hamas attacks, a Jewish physics professor at the University of Melbourne found himself surrounded by masked protesters in his own office — uncertain, for ninety long minutes, whether he was witnessing dissent or something far more dangerous. His testimony before Australia's royal commission into antisemitism this week joins a chorus of voices describing campuses not as places of open inquiry, but as sites of fear, slow justice, and institutional hesitation. The question these hearings are quietly asking is one universities have long struggled to answer: how does an in

Universities face pressure over campus antisemitism as royal commission hears protest testimony

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