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The ANU VC, Genevieve Bell, must go.[ATTACH=full]191777[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]191776[/ATTACH]The Australian National University says its students did not perform Nazi-inspired gestures at a mass online student meeting in May last year while conceding the footage “on a superficial level” looked as if they did.The Australian revealed last year that the university had begun investigations into the incident, where footage showed a student who appeared to perform a Nazi salute and another brought their finger up below their nose in a way that made it look like Adolf Hitler’s moustache, during a mass online student meeting.That meeting was dominated by discussion about the pro-Palestine encampment protest that had been pitched on campus. In that meeting, Jewish students brought an ultimately unsuccessful motion asking the student association to – among other items – condemn Hamas, condemn the use of hateful slogans such as “intifada”, and acknowledge there was a “toxic culture, including anti-Semitism, within activist circles at the ANU”.ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell fronted the parliamentary inquiry into anti-Semitism at universities and revealed her university’s investigation had “found that (Nazi-inspired gestures) did not, in fact, happen”.
The ANU VC, Genevieve Bell, must go.
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The Australian National University says its students did not perform Nazi-inspired gestures at a mass online student meeting in May last year while conceding the footage “on a superficial level” looked as if they did.
The Australian revealed last year that the university had begun investigations into the incident, where footage showed a student who appeared to perform a Nazi salute and another brought their finger up below their nose in a way that made it look like Adolf Hitler’s moustache, during a mass online student meeting.
That meeting was dominated by discussion about the pro-Palestine encampment protest that had been pitched on campus. In that meeting, Jewish students brought an ultimately unsuccessful motion asking the student association to – among other items – condemn Hamas, condemn the use of hateful slogans such as “intifada”, and acknowledge there was a “toxic culture, including anti-Semitism, within activist circles at the ANU”.
ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell fronted the parliamentary inquiry into anti-Semitism at universities and revealed her university’s investigation had “found that (Nazi-inspired gestures) did not, in fact, happen”.
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