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"Every day for five weeks at school, a 13-year-old boy says he was greeted with
abuse, including heil Hitlers and being called a “dirty Jew” – a reminder that
members of his family were murdered by Nazis.
He’s one of three students at three separate Melbourne public schools who say
they have experienced antisemitic bullying that was so extreme their parents
are pulling them out. They encountered swastikas, Nazi salutes and even
physical assaults and were called “Jewboy” or “dirty Jew” and sent memes
involving Hitler.
Two of the students became withdrawn, refused to go to school and couldn’t get
out of bed. Another said he no longer told people about his Jewish background.
Their families say the response from both the schools and Education Department
did not go far enough to stamp out the behaviour, or treat the matters as
seriously as they should have. One family decided to go to the police because
they felt the school was not responding quickly enough.
Adi Rozen, the mother of 14-year-old Jewish student Jackie, who went to
Brighton Secondary College and was in its Select Entry Accelerated Learning
program, said the bullying was so bad her daughter sometimes would not get out
of bed."
Via
Guardian Australia
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