Anti-Semitism is creeping into our schools, Rosie Lewis, The Weekend Australian, Saturday:
Josh Frydenberg has called for Australians to be better educated about the Holocaust after reports of two apparently anti-Semitic events in which a 12-year-old was forced to kiss the shoes of a Muslim classmate and a five-year-old was allegedly named a “Jewish cockroach”. The Treasurer said he was deeply concerned anti-Semitism was creeping into schools following a report in The Jewish News detailing the bullying in Victoria, and reflected a growing trend across the community of a 60 per cent rise in anti-Semitic incidents. “The reports today about young children, as young as five, being attacked and abused because of their Jewishness is completely unacceptable in our civilised society,” Mr Frydenberg said.
Sickness of the heart, Tom Stayner, SBS, September 13:
Jewish groups have warned of a “rising tide” of anti-Semitism in Australia, with one Liberal senator even citing the challenge to Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s eligibility to sit in parliament as an example of renewed attacks on Jews. Senator Andrew Bragg cautioned about … a “sickness of the heart and mind” that should never be tolerated … “I believe anti-Semitism is a rising problem … across Australia. Anti-Semitic incidents have increased by 60 per cent in the past year,” he said.
Read the article form ‘Cut and Paste’ in The Australian.