Original sentence: In 2005 they campaigned against the Howard government's Voluntary Student Unionism (VSU) legislation.In September 2006, members of Socialist Alternative were accused of having hardline positions against Israel and using aggressive tactics on campus.Members regularly run in various students' union elections and have held positions in the National Union of Students.SA is to the left of the Labor Party factions, competing with the Grassroots Left for votes.SA soon overcame this setback and grew significantly in 2006 and is a noticeable presence at most left wing protests as well as in the National Union of Students, where members were re-elected to high positions, including NUS Education Officer, in December 2006.Socialist Alternative clubs are present on many capital city university campuses.They are currently mobilising in support of the protest in September against the APEC conference in Sydney.They have a presence at the University of Melbourne, La Trobe University, the University of Sydney, RMIT University, Swinburne University of Technology, the Australian Catholic University, Victoria University, the Australian National University, the University of Queensland, Queensland University of Technology, University of Technology Sydney, University of Western Sydney (Bankstown campus), the University of Western Australia and Australia's largest university, Monash University.This year's conference held over three days, Friday 30 March - Sunday 1 April was their largest ever and was addressed by  activists from France, the USA and Palestine
Edited sentence: A member of SA, stating that Zionists have a "fetish for genocide and mass slaughter of Arab people".Beliefs and Ideology.For example, Paul Coats, former General Secretary of the Student Association at La Trobe University and an SA cadre, caused controversy in 2006 by calling Israel a racist state no better than apartheid South Africa which should be dismantled, in a National Union of Students email discussion group.In an article published by The Age on September the 4th, 2006, Members of Socialist Alternative were accused of having hardline positions against Israël and using aggressive tactics on campus.Some members of SA also hold strong views on Israel.Ted Lapkin of the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council described Mr Coats' comments as 'despicable and moronic'.They are currently mobilising in support of the protest in September against the APEC conference which US President George Bush will be attending