A student at a $40k-a-year Sydney school has been filmed performing a Nazi salute. It comes as Jewish leaders speak out about rising rates of anti-Semitism. WATCH THE VIDEO.
A video has emerged of a student at the $40,000-a-year Cranbrook School smiling and giving a Sieg Heil to the camera in a worrying display of anti-Semitism that Jewish leaders say has overrun public and private schools.
It comes after it was revealed Knox Grammar students were caught making pro-Hitler comments in a chatroom on the Discord app, which also featured examples of anti-Semitic, racist, sexist and homophobic language.
The video of the Cranbrook boy which was supplied to The Daily Telegraph by a concerned parent shows the child in a corridor smile at the camera before performing the Nazi salute as other children unpack their lockers.
Cranbrook principal Nicholas Sampson wrote to parents on Thursday, saying there had been a “noticeable shift in incidences of anti-social and discriminatory behaviour”.
“Through these forums we have made it abundantly clear that we do not tolerate these behaviours in any form. Slurs of this nature are abhorrent to us all and will not be tolerated,” he wrote.
He said the school had an improved incident behaviour register in response to the increase in behaviour, while also strengthening alliances with external organisations such as the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies.
Read the article by Christopher Harris in The Daily Telegraph.