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Lucinda Garbutt-Young and Emily Woods

Jewish student backs violence against colonisation

Jewish student Yasmine Johnson helped organise a pro-Palestine encampment at Sydney University. (Christopher Hopkins/AAP PHOTOS)

Some violent resistance is justified to fight colonisation, a pro-Palestine Jewish student has told a royal commission investigating anti-Semitism on university campuses.

Students for Palestine co-convener Yasmine Johnson lost family in the Holocaust and has defended the use of violence, combined with non-violent protest, to end Israel's occupation of Gaza and the West Bank.

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