There’s a power in collective resistance and solidarity that, if only it can be organised, could flush away Hanson and her ilk into history’s septic tank. Yesterday, students pointed the way forward.
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.
