Graffiti discovered at Toorak Primary School has prompted anger at the “desecration of a place where children play and learn”.
School kids have been exposed to “ugly and abhorrent” anti-Semitism, a civil-rights group says, after swastika graffiti was discovered at a primary school in Melbourne’s inner east.
A Jewish woman discovered the Nazi symbol on a basketball court at Toorak Primary School on Wednesday.
It is unclear who etched the graffiti onto the court.
Anti-Defamation Commission chairman Dvir Abramovich said the display was another example of “unbridled hate” directed towards the Jewish community.
“To desecrate a place where children play and learn with neo-Nazi vandalism is ugly and abhorrent, and I hope that those individuals who perpetrated this sickening outrage are identified and prosecuted to the full extent of the new law that bans the public displays of the Nazi swastika,” Dr Abramovich said.
“This cowardly vandalism is a frontal attack on the core values and spirit of schools, a haven where students, family and staff of all ethnic and religious backgrounds are welcomed.
“This open and public declaration of racial hatred is not just a threat to Jewish people but is a real threat to everyone, and collectively, we must reject these disgusting acts and the genocidal agenda they represent.
Read the article by Olivia Jenkins in the Herald Sun.