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Shut it down!

You cannot hide behind academic freedom to peddle antisemitism

1 February 2025

9:00 AM

1 February 2025

9:00 AM

The politicians and Jewish community leaders criticising the antisemitism emanating from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) are like firefighters blinded by smoke, spraying water in all directions and unable to identify the source of the blaze.

To be clear, the source of the antisemitism in this instance is QUT’s Carumba Institute, a strange hybrid of problematic teaching, second-rate research and extreme left-wing activists nestled in the campuses of QUT.

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Scott Hargreaves is the Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs

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