7 February 2026

As could have been predicted, Zionist organisers in Australia immediately seized on the shootings at Bondi Beach to demand the total suppression of support for Palestinian human rights. This was a transparently cynical move, since the father and son responsible for the terrorist shootings were known to be influenced by ISIS and not Hamas or anger at Israel and its supporters for the genocide in Gaza. The prime minister and other prominent Australians nevertheless jumped on the Zionist bandwagon. The Adelaide Writers’ Week, a major event in the cultural calendar that was scheduled to take place towards the end of this month, decided in its wisdom to disinvite Randa Abdel-Fattah (photo), a leading Palestinian-Australian author and academic, since her presence after the Bondi terrorism event might seem insensitive. This led almost immediately to a mass boycott by other writers, forcing the organisers to abandon the event. Now the government appears ready to adopt a “report card” for universities to evaluate how well they “deal with antisemitism”, with the threat that they will be defunded if their marks are not high enough. This is another Zionist initiative, and in case there is any doubt as to the purpose of this initiative, the government’s explanatory document refers to the need to suppress “intimidating protests, encampments or public hostility to Jews, Israelis or Zionists.” And this after 78 years of Israeli ethnic cleansing and apartheid policies against Palestinians and over two years of genocide. Here is the Guardian report on the report card scheme.

Australian universities to be graded on how well they deal with protests under antisemitism report card

Exclusive: Leaked documents show how universities will be assessed under new system, which was fast-tracked after Bondi terror attack

Caitlin Cassidy Wed 4 Feb 2026 14.00 GMT

Universities will be graded on how well they “deal with” protests, encampments and the display of flags as part of a controversial antisemitism report card system adopted by the Albanese government after the Bondi terror attack, according to documents seen by Guardian Australia.

The antisemitism envoy, Jillian Segal, devised the report card system as part of a wide-ranging plan handed down to the federal government last July to combat antisemitism, which also proposed withholding government funding from universities that “facilitate, enable or fail to act against antisemitism”.

Segal in November appointed the constitutional lawyer Greg Craven, who is a former vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University and regular columnist with The Australian, to lead the report card initiative.

In the aftermath of the Bondi terror attack, the federal government fast-tracked its response to her plan, with the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, telling ABC radio late last year that his government was “working with the envoy” to produce the report card on universities.

The report card criteria, sent to universities and seen by Guardian Australia, outlines four “priority areas” to be assessed on a grading of A to D.