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Anna Denishensky

Anna Denishensky (she/her) is an Anti-Zionist Jew, who grew up in the Jewish community in Naarm (Melbourne). While in Ngunnawal Country (Canberra) to complete her studies, she was involved in the Encampment, emphasising the importance of showing solidarity with Palestine and protesting the ANU’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza. She has since graduated and moved back to Naarm, focusing her Pro-Palestinian activism on a national and governmental scale, rather than ANU specific.

‘Fringe Jew’: Reclaiming Identity in the Fight for Solidarity

Like most crucial moments in my life, I don’t notice them until after they’ve passed. It was May 8th 2024, and it was the ANUSA AGM (ANU’s Student Union annual general meeting).

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A Zionist Safe Space on Campus

While watching the first of many Senate estimates that the Australian National University was called to, many students learned that university management had established a Safe Space for Jewish students on campus. As a Jewish student on campus, I was shocked because I was not aware of the safe space and I did not have access to it.

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