Jewish socialist and Palestine solidarity campaigner Yasmine Johnson was not only grilled at the royal commission, she was then slandered in the press. Here, she responds to the critics.
Sometimes a little bit of the truth slips out amid the lies at the royal commission. So it was in this week’s testimony from the acting University of Melbourne vice-chancellor Glyn Davis.
The royal commission’s witnesses are unreliable and prejudiced, and the commissioner seems to accept that supporting a religious/ethno-supremacist apartheid state is essential to Jewish identity.
This article by Yasmine Johnson, a Jewish student, socialist and one of the national coordinators of Students for Palestine, is based on her testimony at the royal commission.
