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18.01 EDTShadow education minister labels university leaders ‘weak and spineless’ over antisemitismJulian Leeser, the shadow minister for education, said the time for universities “mucking around” on definitions of antisemitism were over.Leeser spoke to RN Breakfast this morning, saying: double quotation markUniversities are the place where the next generation of leaders goes to be formed. And the fact that our vice-chancellors are so weak and spineless that they haven’t been able to crack down on this shows how much we need this definition adopted … I think this week at the royal commission, this is the week where the vice-chancellors have to own up for their failures here, for their failures in allowing those encampments to persist and saying that that’s just the price Jews have to pay…
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