A Jewish student at a Sydney high school was told by another student that he would go back in time and become Hitler to “hunt down his family and stop the bloodline”.
This is just one of the allegations that has come to light since The Sun-Herald revealed last week that anti-Semitism was rising in eastern suburbs schools.
The mother of the boy, a student at Rose Bay Secondary College in the eastern suburbs, said she has since met with the principal about the matter.
Separately, a mother at a Sydney private school phoned the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies to report that her son witnessed a Jewish boy being stuffed into a locker and sprayed with deodorant to simulate a Nazi gas chamber, while other students laughed and filmed the incident. She did not name the school, but said it occurred earlier this year and she believed the school was aware of it.
The Herald last week revealed that exclusive boys’ private school Cranbrook was dealing with several instances of anti-Semitic bullying, including a video of a boy performing a Nazi salute in full uniform while at school.
Some families have approached The Herald directly and disclosed the identities of the schools in question, believing this is the only way to achieve cultural change. Others have been shared by the Board of Deputies, which represents the Jewish community, with the names of schools redacted.
Read the article by Caitlin Fitzsimmons in The Sydney Morning Herald.