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🗞️Dutton says PM need to "call for an end" to university camps supporting Palestine.

🗞️Dutton says PM need to "call for an end" to university camps supporting Palestine.

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Anthony Albanese should "call for an end" to pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses, says Peter Dutton, leader of the opposition.

Mr. Dutton said that the way police have responded to protests across the country has been "weak."In an interview with Ray Hadley on 2GB, When Dutton questioned anti-Israel campaigner Randa Abdel-Fattah, who is spearheading the students' protest against the use of children despite having received more than $830,000 in federal government funding.

" Well, their grant should be withdrawn immediately. I just think we need to start looking at this issue seriously. As we know, the allegations coming out of Western Sydney in the last couple of weeks, the Jewish community has been targeted, we've got armed guards outside Jewish schools and preschools. What have these children done and how are they any different from any other child in any government school or Catholic school or Anglican school or atheist school, whatever it is? I can't believe that we are actually seeing a repeat of history that we thought would never happen again.” Dutton said.

"The 7th of October - the attack on the Israelis - that was the biggest attack on the Jewish community since the Holocaust where six million people were gassed. How can we accept in our society that the Jewish community is being ostracised and vilified at the moment? We wouldn't tolerate it if it was a campus protest against people of indigenous heritage or people from the Islamic community or people of tall stature or if they were Catholic or if they were Indian or Chinese or whatever it was and these are the people who normally preach inclusion and tolerance and criticise, as you say, anybody who doesn't fit their mould. But somehow the governments and even the police response, I think, has been weak on these campuses as well.

“As for the universities and some of the chancellors and vice-chancellors, they need to look in the mirror themselves because we can't tolerate the vilification of any part of our community - not the Jewish community, not anyone else. I think the Prime Minister really needs to stand up and show some backbone here and call for an end to these nonsense protests. They're racist, they're anti-Semitic and we shouldn't tolerate them for a moment and I think most decent Australians feel the same way,” he said .

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Tensions have escalated at the University of Melbourne's pro-Palestinian camp after dozens of pro-Israel supporters arrived.

Protesters from both sides spent more than an hour chanting anti-Israel slogans near the entrance to the camp on Thursday afternoon.

More than 50 people waving Israeli flags faced dozens of pro-Palestinian students inside the camp.

Earlier, several hundred pro-Israel supporters gathered in the campus's University Square, led by Jewish students who said they felt unsafe on campus.

Campus encampments have appeared in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, and Canberra, with participants demanding that their educational institutions reveal and sever connections with arms manufacturers they allege are supplying Israel with weapons.

On April 17, a few students at Columbia University in New York pitched tents, sparking the start of the movement. Since then, it has expanded throughout the US and attracted interest from abroad.

The Australasian Union of Jewish Students (AUJS) is deeply concerned that we are witnessing a further escalation in the vilification of Jewish students

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