Antisemitism in New South Wales

Introduction

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.

Terms of reference
Timeline
DateMilestone
Wed 12 February 2025Referred
Sun 06 April 2025Submissions closed
Mon 19 May 2025Hearing - Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney
Mon 16 June 2025Hearing - Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney
Fri 04 July 2025Hearing - Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney
Fri 04 July 2025Hearing - Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney
Mon 15 September 2025Hearing - Macquarie Room, Parliament House, Sydney
Mon 16 February 2026FinalReport
Mon 16 February 2026FinalReport
Submissions

Submissions to this inquiry closed on 06 Apr 2025.

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Hearings and transcripts
DateVenue details
Mon 19 May 2025Macquarie Room, Parliament House, SydneyView scheduleView transcript
Mon 16 June 2025Macquarie Room, Parliament House, SydneyView scheduleView transcript
Fri 04 July 2025Macquarie Room, Parliament House, SydneyView scheduleView transcript
Fri 04 July 2025Macquarie Room, Parliament House, SydneyView transcript
Mon 15 September 2025Macquarie Room, Parliament House, SydneyView scheduleView transcript
Reports and government responses
Other documents
DateTypeTitle
Tue 17 February 2026Correspondence Email received from Dr Peter Slezak, Honorary Associate Professor in Philosophy, providing submission to the inquiry into antisemitism (Originally authored 16 June 2025) (pdf, 372.45 KB)
Mon 16 February 2026Media ReleaseReport tabled (pdf, 65.71 KB)
Wed 12 November 2025Correspondence Professor Annamarie Jagose, Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Provost (pdf, 136.16 KB)
Wed 08 October 2025Answers to Questions on Notice Multicultural NSW (pdf, 180.83 KB)
Wed 08 October 2025Correspondence 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 (pdf, 136.27 KB)
Fri 03 October 2025Answers to Questions on Notice NSW Privacy Commissioner (pdf, 259.60 KB)
Fri 03 October 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsAnswers to supplementary question 3 from UNSW (pdf, 604.90 KB)
Wed 01 October 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsAnswers to supplementary question 2(p) from NSW Police Force (pdf, 464.08 KB)
Tue 30 September 2025Correspondence 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 (pdf, 86.31 KB)
Tue 23 September 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsAnswers to supplementary question 3, University of Sydney - received 23 September 2025 (pdf, 65.19 KB)
Mon 15 September 2025Tabled DocumentAustralasian 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 (pdf, 16.89 MB)
Fri 12 September 2025Media ReleaseMedia release - Antisemitism in NSW - 12 September 2025 (pdf, 280.40 KB)
Thu 07 August 2025Correspondence Mr Mahmud Hawila, Barrister, Black Chambers (pdf, 205.08 KB)
Thu 07 August 2025Additional InformationAustralian doctors defamed on IG page provided by Mr Mahmud Hawila, Barrister, Black Chambers (pdf, 37.93 MB)
Thu 07 August 2025Additional InformationUN Reported Impact Snapshot - Gaza Strip - dated 30 July 2025 provided by Mr Mahmud Hawila, Barrister, Black Chambers (pdf, 4.86 MB)
Wed 06 August 2025Additional InformationCommunity Security Group, A CSG Analysis of Reported Antisemitic Incidents in Australian in 2024, provided by Linda Emms, Principal, Emanuel School (pdf, 7.57 MB)
Wed 06 August 2025Answers to Questions on Notice Emanuel School (pdf, 8.30 MB)
Wed 06 August 2025Answers to Questions on Notice Moriah College (pdf, 189.11 KB)
Wed 06 August 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsMs Jillian Segal AO, Australia's Special Envoy to Combat Antisemitism (pdf, 172.87 KB)
Wed 06 August 2025Answers to Questions on Notice NSW Police Force (pdf, 245.50 KB)
Wed 06 August 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsNSW Police Force (pdf, 212.56 KB)
Wed 06 August 2025Answers to Questions on Notice NSW Police Force (pdf, 112.61 KB)
Thu 24 July 2025Answers to Questions on Notice University of New South Wales (pdf, 63.54 KB)
Thu 24 July 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsUniversity of New South Wales (pdf, 178.12 KB)
Thu 17 July 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsMs Kellie Sloane MP (pdf, 102.32 KB)
Thu 17 July 2025Answers to Questions on Notice University of Sydney (pdf, 127.41 KB)
Thu 17 July 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsUniversity of Sydney (pdf, 198.90 KB)
Thu 17 July 2025Answers to Questions on Notice Answers to questions on notice and supplementary questions, University of Technology Sydney (pdf, 179.54 KB)
Thu 17 July 2025Correspondence 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 (pdf, 301.04 KB)
Wed 16 July 2025Answers to Questions on Notice University of Sydney Students’ Representative Council (pdf, 82.38 KB)
Fri 11 July 2025Additional InformationAustralian 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 (pdf, 11.88 MB)
Fri 11 July 2025Additional InformationAustralian 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 (pdf, 533.90 KB)
Thu 10 July 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsUTS Students’ Association (pdf, 169.13 KB)
Fri 04 July 2025Tabled DocumentCorrespondence from NSW Bar Association to Mr Hawila dated 30 July 2024, tendered by Mr Mahmud Hawila, Barrister, Black Chambers (pdf, 499.62 KB)
Tue 01 July 2025Answers to Questions on Notice Councillor Will Nemesh (pdf, 149.81 KB)
Wed 25 June 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsNSW Jewish Board of Deputies (pdf, 237.32 KB)
Mon 23 June 2025Answers to Questions on Notice Australasian Union of Jewish Students (pdf, 58.18 KB)
Mon 23 June 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsAustralasian Union of Jewish Students (pdf, 415.49 KB)
Mon 23 June 2025Additional InformationAustralian Jewish Association (pdf, 120.92 KB)
Fri 20 June 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsThe Tzedek Collective (pdf, 203.01 KB)
Fri 20 June 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsInstitute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (pdf, 60.35 KB)
Thu 19 June 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsJewish Council of Australia (pdf, 144.92 KB)
Thu 19 June 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsJewish Voices of Inner Sydney (pdf, 85.86 KB)
Thu 19 June 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsSydney Friends of Standing Together (pdf, 47.55 KB)
Wed 18 June 2025Answers to Questions on Notice Australian Jewish Association (pdf, 264.17 KB)
Wed 18 June 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsAustralian Jewish Association (pdf, 251.42 KB)
Wed 18 June 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsJews Against the Occupation '48 (pdf, 165.58 KB)
Wed 18 June 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsThe Great Synagogue (pdf, 99.03 KB)
Tue 17 June 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsAustralian Academic Alliance Against Antisemitism (5A) (pdf, 257.37 KB)
Mon 16 June 2025Tabled DocumentUndated photograph of posters, purportedly displayed at University of Sydney campus, tabled by The Hon Chris Rath MLC (pdf, 1.36 MB)
Mon 16 June 2025Tabled DocumentOpening statement of UTS Students' Association, tendered by Ms Mia Campbell, President, UTS Students’ Association (pdf, 867.84 KB)
Mon 16 June 2025Tabled DocumentOpening 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 (pdf, 811.99 KB)
Mon 16 June 2025Tabled DocumentDavid 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 (pdf, 5.99 MB)
Mon 16 June 2025Tabled DocumentIndependent Jewish Voices Canada, 'How Not to Fight Antisemitism: IHRA-WDA Report', 1 May 2019, tendered by Dr Peter Slezak, Honorary Associate Professor in Philosophy (pdf, 3.43 MB)
Mon 16 June 2025Tabled DocumentBrian Klug, 'The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism', The Nation, 1 April 2021, tendered by Dr Peter Slezak, Honorary Associate Professor in Philosophy (pdf, 3.66 MB)
Mon 16 June 2025Tabled DocumentBarry Trachtenberg, 'Why I Signed the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism', Jewish Currents, 26 March 2021, tendered by Dr Peter Slezak, Honorary Associate Professor in Philosophy (pdf, 6.00 MB)
Mon 16 June 2025Tabled DocumentPeter 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 (pdf, 4.69 MB)
Mon 16 June 2025Tabled DocumentPeter 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 (pdf, 3.74 MB)
Mon 16 June 2025Tabled DocumentNoam 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 (pdf, 1.84 MB)
Mon 16 June 2025Tabled DocumentPeter 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 (pdf, 3.79 MB)
Mon 16 June 2025Tabled DocumentMairav 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 (pdf, 7.24 MB)
Mon 16 June 2025Tabled DocumentNorman Finkelstein, 'Why an Economic Boycott of Israel is Justified', Counter Punch, 18 January 2006, tendered by Dr Peter Slezak, Honorary Associate Professor in Philosophy (pdf, 5.58 MB)
Tue 10 June 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsCoalition of Women for Justice and Peace (pdf, 89.11 KB)
Mon 02 June 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsSydney Jewish Museum (pdf, 977.23 KB)
Sun 01 June 2025Answers to Supplementary QuestionsJewish Women 4 Peace Action Ready Group (pdf, 111.87 KB)
Mon 19 May 2025Tabled DocumentFacebook post – Australian Jewish Association, 25 February 2025 - tabled by Ms Judith Treanor, Jews Against the Occupation '48 (pdf, 157.64 KB)
Mon 19 May 2025Tabled DocumentFacebook post – Australian Jewish Association, 27 January 2025 - tabled by Ms Judith Treanor, Jews Against the Occupation '48 (pdf, 353.48 KB)
Mon 19 May 2025Tabled DocumentFacebook post – JOS – Jews of Sydney - tabled by Ms Judith Treanor, Jews Against the Occupation '48 (pdf, 914.45 KB)
Mon 19 May 2025Tabled DocumentX post – Mark Leibler, 8 February 2025 - tabled by Ms Judith Treanor, Jews Against the Occupation '48 (pdf, 34.64 KB)
Mon 19 May 2025Tabled DocumentX post – Jeremy Leibler, 12 February 2025 - tabled by Ms Judith Treanor, Jews Against the Occupation '48 (pdf, 49.39 KB)
Mon 19 May 2025Tabled DocumentDiscord post – Australian Jewish Association, 5 May 2025 - tabled by Ms Judith Treanor, Jews Against the Occupation '48 (pdf, 51.55 KB)
Mon 19 May 2025Tabled DocumentJudith 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 (pdf, 183.33 KB)
Mon 19 May 2025Tabled DocumentJudith 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 (pdf, 130.40 KB)
Mon 19 May 2025Tabled DocumentOpening statement, Australian Academic Alliance Against Antisemitism – tabled by Mr David Knoll AM, Director, Australian Academic Alliance Against Antisemitism (5A) (pdf, 161.77 KB)
Wed 14 May 2025Media ReleaseMedia Release (pdf, 143.99 KB)
Fri 21 February 2025Media ReleaseCall for submissions (pdf, 136.53 KB)
Contact us

Jessie Halligan

Role:
Principal Council Officer
Phone:
9230 2064
Email:
portfoliocommittee5@parliament.nsw.gov.au

Anthony Hanna

Role:
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Phone:
9230 2258
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Gareth Perkins

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Phone:
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