Universities not doing enough to deal with protests and ‘highly personal’ attacks, antisemitism royal commission hears

Royal commission on antisemitism and social cohesion hears from professor whose office was occupied by protesters

A Jewish professor has told the royal commission into antisemitism the University of Melbourne needs to show it doesn’t “tolerate misbehaviour” after the expulsion of two pro-Palestine student activists who occupied his office was overturned.

Steven Prawer, a professor of physics, said on Tuesday that he had not known at the time if it was a “terrorist attack”.

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