Another witness, appearing as Liat, moved to Canberra in 2022 to study at the Australian National University (ANU) and described herself as proudly Zionist, with both her parents born in Israel.
After the 7 October 2023 terrorist attack, she said she lost the vast majority of her non-Jewish friends, including being told at a university event “we’re not friends any more, you’re a Zionist”.
“The majority of the people who were my friends at the time just stopped talking to me entirely,” she said.
She described an escalation of antisemitism on campus after 2023, including being called a “baby killer” and “genocide supporter” by students who were part of ANU’s pro-Palestine encampment.
What a farce this commission is. AntiZionism is not antisemitism.
“Pround Nazis friends stopped talking to her, this is discrimination!”
