The University wrote to Sydney Criminal Lawyers today, to request they amend their article and/or include our statement below. 

“We’re concerned there has been a fundamental misunderstanding of our position regarding reports of antisemitic incidents on campus, and a conflation of misconduct matters with complaints.  

"Last year we received a large number of complaints where the complainants considered there had been antisemitic conduct.  

"As we explained to the inquiry, under our policies we don’t make specific findings of ‘antisemitism’, rather we consider whether there has been a breach of our policies or codes of conduct – so the claim there are ‘no records of any antisemitic complaints’ is incorrect and that there are ‘no recorded antisemitic incidents’ is highly misleading.  

"The 15 misconduct matters referred to are the number of complaints where we had sufficient information to undertake a misconduct process, the person who engaged in the conduct was identified as a member of our University community, and the conduct was considered to be contrary to our policies or codes of conduct. We’ve taken a number of other actions in response to complaints about unacceptable conduct including banning people from our campuses, removing posters and graffiti and issuing cease and desist letters to relevant organisations. 

"The assertion there is an inconsistency between the submissions of the Australian Academic Alliance Against Antisemitism and the University misunderstands the difference between complaint records and misconduct processes, and the ways we address complaints outside formal misconduct processes.”