Australian Jewish News removes article criticising treatment of Jewish Council’s Sarah Schwartz

Sarah Schwartz, the executive officer of the Jewish Council of Australia, speaks to media outside the Sydney hearings of the royal commission on antisemitism and social cohesion on 2 July. Photograph: Bianca De Marchi/AAP

The Australian Jewish News has removed an article which decried the treatment of the executive officer of the Jewish Council of Australia, Sarah Schwartz, by members of the Jewish community.

Regular AJN contributor and lawyer Nomi Kaltmann had a piece commissioned by the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Gareth Narunsky, which said that watching Schwartz’s testimony at the royal commission was “extremely upsetting” despite their obvious political differences.