Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and spokesperson for Anti-Racism and Higher Education has responded to Anthony Albanese\u2019s backing of the Special Envoy\u2019s Plan to Combat Antisemitism and continues to call for urgent funding for the implementation of the National Anti-Racism Framework. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Mehreen Faruqi said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s a real shame that rather than urgently funding the full implementation of the National Anti-Racism Framework (NARF) to stamp out all forms of racism, the Prime Minister has backed a plan that will silence and punish voices raised against the genocidal state of Israel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt\u2019s been months since the completion of the national anti-racism framework and we haven\u2019t heard a peep from the Prime Minister about fully implementing it, but he has jumped on a Trump-like plan to attack universities and further crack down on their staff and students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cConflating criticism of Israel with racism and hate speech is not only wrong, it is downright dangerous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe calls to withhold funding from universities are dangerous. We have seen from Trump\u2019s America where this path leads – where student expression is banned, and universities like Harvard are punished for permitting protests against genocide. The report\u2019s call for investigations into \u2018foreign funding\u2019 of protests, just echoes Trump\u2019s conspiracy theories used to justify extreme intervention into independent universities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAnti-racism work should not have a hierarchy, racism is racism. It is harmful for all those who bear its brunt including First Nations people, Muslims, Jews, and Palestinians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI call on the Prime Minister to drop the double standards, end this trip into authoritarianism and get serious about tackling all racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt feels like we’re living in a fever dream, where Labor and Liberal are so focused on covering up Israel\u2019s genocide of the Palestinian people that they’re are determined to stop and stifle criticism and condemnation of these atrocious actions \u2014 all in the name of a thinly veiled effort to conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Deputy Leader of the Australian Greens and spokesperson for Anti-Racism and Higher Education has responded to Anthony Albanese\u2019s backing of the Special Envoy\u2019s Plan to Combat Antisemitism and continues to call for urgent funding for the implementation of the National Anti-Racism Framework. Senator Mehreen Faruqi said: \u201cIt\u2019s a real shame that rather … Continue reading “Anthony Albanese should get serious about tackling all racism”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33676,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33675\/revisions\/33676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}