Executive Officer at Jewish Council of Australia
Sarah is a human rights lawyer. She is a Legal Director at the Human Rights Law Centre, working on democratic rights and freedoms, and a lecturer at Melbourne Law School. Sarah has worked for many years representing clients in the areas of democratic rights, police accountability, the rights of people in prison and coronial inquests into deaths in custody. She was awarded a John Monash Scholarship in 2019 and completed a Master of Laws at Harvard University focused on policing, racism and mass incarceration. Sarah has written widely on issues of policing, racism, protest rights and Palestinian human rights. Sarah went to a Jewish school on Gadigal country and has been involved in many Jewish community organisations. Sarah is committed to collective liberation and working alongside and learning from the communities she works with in their fights for justice.
Max Kaiser and Sarah Schwartz op-ed in The Jewish Independent: “It is not treachery for Jews to criticise Israel’s conduct of the war”
Max Kaiser and Sarah Schwartz have recently had an op-ed published in The Jewish Independenttitled “It is not treachery for […]
Sarah Schwartz speaks to The Guardian about the campaign for the Albanese government to reverse its UNRWA funding suspension
Sarah Schwartz recently spoke to The Guardian for a story titled ‘Life-saving work’: Albanese government under pressure to reverse UNRWA […]
Sarah Schwartz speaks to 6 News about the launch of the Jewish Council
Sarah Schwartz has recently spoken to 6 News about the launch of the Jewish Council. Click here to watch an […]
Op Ed in The Age: As Jews, we don’t accept that criticism of Israel’s government is antisemitic
Today, talk about antisemitism is everywhere – in newspapers, conversations between friends, and especially on social media. Many Jews feel […]
