The head of the University of Sydney has apologised to Jewish students and staff, admitting he “failed them” in his handling of a pro-Palestinian student encampment on campus.Vice-chancellor Professor Mark Scott is fronting a Senate inquiry into anti-Semitism on campus, set up following the establishment of protester tent cities on several university campuses earlier this year.The inquiry has received submissions from Jewish students at the University of Sydney who reported feeling unsafe and unwelcome on campus during the eight week Students for Palestine protest.Mr Scott has defended his decision not to forcibly remove the encampment earlier, and apologised to students who were upset.”The testimonials are heartbreaking and unacceptable and for that I am sorry,” he said.”If students have felt unsafe or unwelcome, if that is their lived experience, if that is their testimony, we have failed them,” he said.Students established encampments at the University of Sydney and on other…
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