From: g87
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 4:39 PM
To: Julie Bishop
Subject: PLEASE ACT AGAINST ILLEGAL BOYCOTTS

http://www.jwire.com.au/lynchs-supporters-dig-him-into-a-deeper-hole/#comment-139025

https://www.google.com.au/#q=geoff+seidner+bds+lynch
Memo to Julie Bishop

Note the entire article and comments herein was sent to Ms Bishop.

Dear Ms Bishop
I recall some time ago you suggested that you would be reviewing funding for Sydney University.
BASIS THEIR ILLEGAL BOYCOTTS AGAINST JEWS AND ISRAEL.

I send you some links above from JWire – with salient information.
I have contributed some thoughts and herein forward to you.
Regards
Geoff Seidner

Dear Vice Chancellor Michael Spence,

I am at doctoral student at the Australian National University and also a member of the ACT Jewish Community. In both of these roles I am concerned about freedom of speech, academic integrity and the fair treatment of members of the academic community and the general public.

I believe that the behaviour of Associate Professor Jake Lynch during a recent public lecture by Richard Kemp on your campus violated all reasonable expectations of decency toward fellow members of the academic community and that it has brought shame upon your university. Students, faculty and others have the right to attend a public lecture with the expectation that it will not be disrupted by the loud and shameful catcalls of students and even more so that these students not be egged on by a member of the faculty. Jake Lynch’s taunting and threatening of an elderly woman was particularly disgraceful. If he were my son I would feel intense shame, as I would feel fear and dismay if a person half my age threatened me in this way. There is no place in society for this type of behaviour.

Last week I attended a lecture by an Israeli security specialist at the ANU Law School. Because of what had happened the previous week at your university, the convener of this lecture quietly made it known within the Jewish community that the lecture would take place. She did not ask for “back up”, but many people turned up, as did, I believe, some members of campus security. There were also many young students in attendance, all polite and respectful, as indeed anyone should be during a lecture. But I couldn’t help thinking that things had come to a pretty pass when a university, which should be a place where diverse views may be aired, can only air some of these views with the presence of security forces.

Vice Chancellor Spence, my dissertation is on a Holocaust topic, namely, on a protected house in Budapest where 3,000 Jews survived due to the intervention of people of courage. Among them was my mother-in-law, the rest of whose family perished in Auschwitz. You might say I’m “a little sensitive” when it comes to expressions of anti-Semitism. The fact that these hateful expressions are once again occurring, not only in society in general, but on our university campuses, is a cause for concern, not only for Jews but for all of us in the university community.

While all members of a university community should be held to account for their actions, most of us give some leeway to young, naïve and misguided students with misplaced enthusiasm for a cause. Faculty members, however, should be held to a higher level of account. And in a decent society, young men should be held to account for their behaviour toward elderly women. These, I believe are sufficient reasons for your serious investigation of the behaviour of Jake Lynch.

Thank you for considering my requests, and may your university continue its tradition of excellence.

Yours sincerely,

Naomi Ruth Robertson

Quite so Philip. Suzanne has been a staunch, committed and effective advocate for a very long time, and in the particularly difficult environment of Sydney University to boot!

Mr Kirsner,

If your prediction proves to be correct, won’t the NTEU be acting in a manner reminiscent of Germany post-1935 Nuremberg Laws?

From: Ron at Rylands [mailto:rtaft@rylands.net.au]
Sent: Monday, 16 March 2015 11:24 AM
To: Vice Chancellor
Subject: Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies

Dear Dr Spence,

I am an Emeritus Professor of Monash University and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and have spent most of my long career at Australian Universities. For many years already I have been ashamed that the Australian Academic community could embrace a purely propagandist Centre such as the above and award the title of Associate Professor to its Director, Associate Professor Jake Lynch. May I suggest that your University should set up an independent enquiry into the legitimacy of the scholarly standing of the Centre and its Director. This suggestion stands apart from any action that you might take against Dr Lynch for his behaviour at the Kemp Lecture.

Yours sincerely,

Emeritus Professor Ronald Taft

With him, what you see is what you get; if he goes, his successor might be far more cunning.
There is at least one other apparatchik in that antisemites’ incubator who is a far more subtle, shrewder, low-key but venomous creature; he would be far more insidious.