Sydney academic had ‘intellectual freedom’ to superimpose swastika on Israel flag, judge finds
by Australian Associated Press from World news | The Guardian on (#656WC)
Federal court rules University of Sydney lecturer Tim Anderson who visited Bashar al-Assad should not have been fired
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A controversial Sydney academic who superimposed a swastika over an Israeli flag did so under the protection of intellectual freedom and should not have been fired as a result, a federal court judge has found.
Dr Tim Anderson worked at the University of Sydney from February 1988 until he was dismissed in February 2019. At the time he left, he was a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Economy.
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