The ANU found there was no case to punish a student who appeared to give a Nazi salute, despite the deputy vice chancellor agreeing it happened “on a superficial level”.
A probe into antisemitism at the Australian National University found there was no case to punish two students who apparently made Nazi gestures, even though a deputy vice chancellor conceded the gestures were made “on a superficial level”.
Members of the committee were outraged when ANU vice chancellor Genevieve Bell said on Wednesday during a hearing that an investigation into students apparently giving a Nazi salute and making a gesture suggestive of a Hitler moustache found this was not antisemitic. ANU deputy vice chancellor Gradys Venville conceded during the Wednesday hearing that the salute and moustache incident happened “on a superficial level”.“At a superficial level absolutely we agree with you that they’re ... and that’s why we investigate it,” Venville told Burns, who asked how the incident was not found to have breached university policy.
“I was shocked and astounded during the hearing and would definitely call on the university to reconsider their position,” he said. “As far as we know, there were no interviews conducted with Jewish students in attendance at the AGM, which also raises the question on how they came to their findings,” advocacy co-ordinator“Alongside the very damning evidence, it kind of begs the question as to how they came to the conclusion this was a superficial form of antisemitism.”“I think it is always important to remember that it is possible to believe in academic freedom without endorsing what is expressed within it,” Bell said.
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