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Antisemitism in New South Wales

This inquiry was established on 12 February 2025 to inquire into and report on antisemitism in New South Wales.

Video recording of the hearing can be found on the NSW Parliament's You Tube channel here.

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Chair:		Borsak, Robert (SFF, LC Member)
Deputy Chair:		Cohn, Amanda (GRNS, LC Member)
Members:		Donnelly, Greg (ALP, LC Member)
	*	Farlow, Scott (LIB, LC Member)
		Lawrence, Stephen (ALP, LC Member)
		Murphy, Cameron (ALP, LC Member)
	*	Rath, Chris (LIB, LC Member)

* Farlow, Scott substituted for Maclaren-Jones, Natasha
* Rath, Chris substituted for Overall, Nichole
* Cohn, Amanda substituted for Higginson, Sue

Date	Milestone
12 Feb 2025	Referred
06 Apr 2025	Submissions closed
19 May 2025	Hearing - Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney
16 Jun 2025	Hearing - Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney
04 Jul 2025	Hearing - Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney
04 Jul 2025	Hearing - Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney
15 Sep 2025	Hearing - Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney
16 Feb 2026	Final Report due

No. 1 Emeritus Professor Stuart Rees AM
No. 2 Dr Lynn Townsend
No. 3 Coalition of Women for Justice and Peace
No. 4 Name suppressed
No. 5 Name suppressed
No. 6 Name suppressed
No. 7 Ms Esther Frischling
No. 8 Mr Taveet Sinanian
No. 9 Mr Sam Altman
No. 10 Mr Tim Hollo
No. 11 Name suppressed
No. 12 Professor Jan Mason
No. 13 Dr Hayim Dar
No. 14 Charles Sturt University
No. 15 Name suppressed
No. 16 Dr Joanna Besley
No. 17 Dr Meredith Medway
No. 18 Dr Selina Samuels
No. 19 Courage to Care NSW
No. 20 Ms Jennifer Carleton
No. 21 Confidential
No. 22 Woollahra Council
No. 23 Sydney Jewish Museum
No. 24 Waverley Council
No. 25 University of New South Wales
No. 26 Jewish Women for Peace Action Ready Group (JW4PARG)
No. 27 Dr Philippa Whiteson
No. 28 University of Technology Sydney
No. 29 Emet Australia
No. 30 The University of Sydney
No. 31 Australian Academic Alliance Against Antisemitism (5A)
No. 32 Jews Against the Occupation '48
No. 33 Sydney Friends of Standing Together
No. 34 Australian Jewish Association
No. 35 Name suppressed
No. 36 Dr Harry Feldman
No. 37 Name suppressed
No. 38 Tzedek Collective
No. 39 Name suppressed
No. 40 Mrs Annalee Atia
No. 41 Martin Munz
No. 42 Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism (ASECA)
No. 43 Arab Council Australia
No. 44 Jewish Council of Australia
No. 45 The Great Synagogue
No. 46 Ethnic Communities Council of NSW
No. 47 Australasian Union of Jewish Students
No. 48 The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy Australia (ISGAP)
No. 49 Jewish Voices of Inner Sydney (JVOIS)
No. 50 Name suppressed
No. 51 Name suppressed
No. 52 Mr Jack Pinczewski
No. 53 Sydney University Muslim Students' Association
No. 54 Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
No. 55 Ms Kellie Sloane, MP
No. 56 NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBD)
No. 57 Name suppressed
No. 58 Anti-Discrimination New South Wales
No. 59 Mrs Judith Treanor
No. 60 Mr David Leser
No. 61 Ms Rose Saltman
No. 62 Mr Stephen Godstone
No. 63 Name suppressed
No. 64 Confidential
No. 65 Mrs Kim Novick
No. 66 Name suppressed
No. 67 Mr Kerry Ross
No. 68 Mr Robert Sharpe
No. 69 Confidential
No. 70 Name suppressed
No. 71 New South Wales Council for Civil Liberties (NSWCCL)

Date	Venue Details
19/05/2025	Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney	Schedule	Transcript
16/06/2025	Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney	Schedule	Transcript
04/07/2025	Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney	Schedule	Transcript
04/07/2025	Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney		Transcript
15/09/2025	Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney	Schedule	Transcript

DateSort	Date	Type	Title
2025-10-08	08/10/2025	Answers to Questions on Notice	Multicultural NSW
2025-10-08	08/10/2025	Correspondence	Email from Mr Joseph La Posta, Chief Executive Officer, Multicultural NSW, to the secretariat providing clarification to evidence given at the 15 September 2025 hearing for the inquiry into antisemitism in NSW
2025-10-03	03/10/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	Answers to supplementary question 3 from UNSW
2025-10-03	03/10/2025	Answers to Questions on Notice	NSW Privacy Commissioner
2025-10-01	01/10/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	Answers to supplementary question 2(p) from NSW Police Force
2025-09-30	30/09/2025	Correspondence	Letter from Ms Jillian Segal AO, Australia’s Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism, to the secretariat providing clarification to evidence given at the 4 July 2025 hearing for the inquiry into antisemitism in NSW
2025-09-23	23/09/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	Answers to supplementary question 3, University of Sydney - received 23 September 2025
2025-09-15	15/09/2025	Tabled Document	Australasian Legal Information Institute, Administrative Review Tribunal of Australia, 'HWMW and Director-General of Security (Intelligence and security)', dated 20 February 2025, tabled by Dr Amanda Cohn
2025-09-12	12/09/2025	Media Release	Media release - Antisemitism in NSW - 12 September 2025
2025-08-07	07/08/2025	Correspondence	Mr Mahmud Hawila, Barrister, Black Chambers
2025-08-07	07/08/2025	Additional Information	Australian doctors defamed on IG page provided by Mr Mahmud Hawila, Barrister, Black Chambers
2025-08-07	07/08/2025	Additional Information	UN Reported Impact Snapshot - Gaza Strip - dated 30 July 2025 provided by Mr Mahmud Hawila, Barrister, Black Chambers
2025-08-06	06/08/2025	Additional Information	Community Security Group, A CSG Analysis of Reported Antisemitic Incidents in Australian in 2024, provided by Linda Emms, Principal, Emanuel School
2025-08-06	06/08/2025	Answers to Questions on Notice	Emanuel School
2025-08-06	06/08/2025	Answers to Questions on Notice	Moriah College
2025-08-06	06/08/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	Ms Jillian Segal AO, Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism
2025-08-06	06/08/2025	Answers to Questions on Notice	NSW Police Force
2025-08-06	06/08/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	NSW Police Force
2025-08-06	06/08/2025	Answers to Questions on Notice	NSW Police Force
2025-07-24	24/07/2025	Answers to Questions on Notice	University of New South Wales
2025-07-24	24/07/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	University of New South Wales
2025-07-17	17/07/2025	Answers to Questions on Notice	Answers to questions on notice and supplementary questions, University of Technology Sydney
2025-07-17	17/07/2025	Answers to Questions on Notice	University of Sydney
2025-07-17	17/07/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	University of Sydney
2025-07-17	17/07/2025	Correspondence	Letter from Professor Annamarie Jagose, The University of Sydney, received 17 July 2025, providing clarifications to evidence at the public hearing on 16 June 2025
2025-07-17	17/07/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	Ms Kellie Sloane MP
2025-07-16	16/07/2025	Answers to Questions on Notice	University of Sydney Students’ Representative Council
2025-07-11	11/07/2025	Additional Information	Australian Human Rights Commission. The National Anti-Racism Framework; A roadmap to eliminating racism in Australia, November 2024, provided by Ms Catherine Duff, Director - Race Discrimination Team, Australian Human Rights Commission
2025-07-11	11/07/2025	Additional Information	Australian Human Rights Commission, Commission of Inquiry into Antisemitism at Australian Universities Bill 2024, Submission to the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, August 2024, provided by Ms Catherine Duff, Director - Race Discrimination Team, Australian Human Rights Commission
2025-07-10	10/07/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	UTS Students’ Association
2025-07-04	04/07/2025	Tabled Document	Correspondence from NSW Bar Association to Mr Hawila dated 30 July 2024, tendered by Mr Mahmud Hawila, Barrister, Black Chambers
2025-07-01	01/07/2025	Answers to Questions on Notice	Councillor Will Nemesh
2025-06-25	25/06/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	NSW Jewish Board of Deputies
2025-06-23	23/06/2025	Answers to Questions on Notice	Australasian Union of Jewish Students
2025-06-23	23/06/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	Australasian Union of Jewish Students
2025-06-23	23/06/2025	Additional Information	Australian Jewish Association
2025-06-20	20/06/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	The Tzedek Collective
2025-06-20	20/06/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy
2025-06-19	19/06/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	Jewish Council of Australia
2025-06-19	19/06/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	Jewish Voices of Inner Sydney
2025-06-19	19/06/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	Sydney Friends of Standing Together
2025-06-18	18/06/2025	Answers to Questions on Notice	Australian Jewish Association
2025-06-18	18/06/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	Australian Jewish Association
2025-06-18	18/06/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	Jews Against the Occupation '48
2025-06-18	18/06/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	The Great Synagogue
2025-06-17	17/06/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	Australian Academic Alliance Against Antisemitism (5A)
2025-06-16	16/06/2025	Tabled Document	Undated photograph of posters, purportedly displayed at University of Sydney campus, tabled by The Hon Chris Rath MLC
2025-06-16	16/06/2025	Tabled Document	Opening statement of UTS Students' Association, tendered by Ms Mia Campbell, President, UTS Students’ Association
2025-06-16	16/06/2025	Tabled Document	Opening statement of Mr Akash Nagarajan, General Secretary, UNSW Student Representative Council, tendered by Mr Akash Nagarajan, General Secretary, University of New South Wales Student Representative Council
2025-06-16	16/06/2025	Tabled Document	David Mednicoff, 'How the JDA can and cannot advance Palestinian rights', Al Jazeera, 4 June 2021, tendered by Dr Peter Slezak, Honorary Associate Professor in Philosophy
2025-06-16	16/06/2025	Tabled Document	Independent Jewish Voices Canada, 'How Not to Fight Antisemitism: IHRA-WDA Report', 1 May 2019, tendered by Dr Peter Slezak, Honorary Associate Professor in Philosophy
2025-06-16	16/06/2025	Tabled Document	Brian Klug, 'The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism', The Nation, 1 April 2021, tendered by Dr Peter Slezak, Honorary Associate Professor in Philosophy
2025-06-16	16/06/2025	Tabled Document	Barry Trachtenberg, 'Why I Signed the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism', Jewish Currents, 26 March 2021, tendered by Dr Peter Slezak, Honorary Associate Professor in Philosophy
2025-06-16	16/06/2025	Tabled Document	Peter Slezak, 'How should antisemitism be defined? A reply to Peter Wertheim', Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 18 December 2020, tendered by Dr Peter Slezak, Honorary Associate Professor in Philosophy
2025-06-16	16/06/2025	Tabled Document	Peter Slezak, 'Peter Slezak's speech to the University of Technology Sydney rally on 26 March', Pearls and Irritations, 3 April 2025, tendered by Dr Peter Slezak, Honorary Associate Professor in Philosophy
2025-06-16	16/06/2025	Tabled Document	Noam Chomsky, 'Noam Chomsky: On the weaponisation of false anti-Semitism charges against radical progressive movements', DiEM25, 31 July 2020, tendered by Dr Peter Slezak, Honorary Associate Professor in Philosophy
2025-06-16	16/06/2025	Tabled Document	Peter Slezak, 'No longer possible to defend the slaughter of over 40,000 civilians as 'Israel's right to self-defence'', Pearls and Irritations, 21 December 2024, tendered by Dr Peter Slezak, Honorary Associate Professor in Philosophy
2025-06-16	16/06/2025	Tabled Document	Mairav Zonszein, 'False charges of antisemitism are the vanguard of cancel culture', +972 Magazine, 28 July 2020, tendered by Dr Peter Slezak, Honorary Associate Professor in Philosophy
2025-06-16	16/06/2025	Tabled Document	Norman Finkelstein, 'Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified', Counter Punch, 18 January 2006, tendered by Dr Peter Slezak, Honorary Associate Professor in Philosophy
2025-06-10	10/06/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	Coalition of Women for Justice and Peace
2025-06-02	02/06/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	Sydney Jewish Museum
2025-06-01	01/06/2025	Answers to Supplementary Questions	Jewish Women 4 Peace Action Ready Group
2025-05-19	19/05/2025	Tabled Document	Facebook post – Australian Jewish Association, 25 February 2025 - tabled by Ms Judith Treanor, Jews Against the Occupation '48
2025-05-19	19/05/2025	Tabled Document	Facebook post – Australian Jewish Association, 27 January 2025 - tabled by Ms Judith Treanor, Jews Against the Occupation '48
2025-05-19	19/05/2025	Tabled Document	Facebook post – JOS – Jews of Sydney - tabled by Ms Judith Treanor, Jews Against the Occupation '48
2025-05-19	19/05/2025	Tabled Document	X post – Mark Leibler, 8 February 2025 - tabled by Ms Judith Treanor, Jews Against the Occupation '48
2025-05-19	19/05/2025	Tabled Document	X post – Jeremy Leibler, 12 February 2025 - tabled by Ms Judith Treanor, Jews Against the Occupation '48
2025-05-19	19/05/2025	Tabled Document	Discord post – Australian Jewish Association, 5 May 2025 - tabled by Ms Judith Treanor, Jews Against the Occupation '48
2025-05-19	19/05/2025	Tabled Document	Judith Treanor, 'Police and synagogue attendees shaken to the core by democracy', Pearls and Irritations, 27 February 2025 - tabled by Ms Judith Treanor, Jews Against the Occupation '48
2025-05-19	19/05/2025	Tabled Document	Judith Treanor, 'How can pro-Palestine protests be intimidating to Jews when Jews attend them?', Pearls and Irritations, 29 January 2025 - tendered by Ms Judith Treanor, Jews Against the Occupation '48 - tabled by Ms Judith Treanor, Jews Against the Occupation '48
2025-05-19	19/05/2025	Tabled Document	Opening statement, Australian Academic Alliance Against Antisemitism – tabled by Mr David Knoll AM, Director, Australian Academic Alliance Against Antisemitism (5A)
2025-05-14	14/05/2025	Media Release	Media Release
2025-02-21	21/02/2025	Media Release	Call for submissions

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Jessie Halligan	Principal Council Officer	9230 2064	[email protected]
Anthony Hanna	Director Committees	9230 2258	[email protected]
Gareth Perkins	Administration Officer	9230 2296	[email protected]

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