“While school staff were not able to substantiate that any negative interactions were anti-Semitic in nature…”
What shameful hogwash. But apparently no dissimulation is too preposterous when covering for deeds such as this: job one of everyone everywhere seems to be to make sure that no one thinks ill of Islam. How many more incidents such as this one will there have to be before people begin to wake up to the fact that the chief problem Western societies is not “Islamophobia”? Or is it already too late?
“Jewish boys taunted in shocking cases of anti-Semitic bullying at Melbourne schools,” by Adam Carey, The Age, October 3, 2019 (thanks to Vlad):
A 12-year-old Jewish student was forced to kneel down and kiss the shoes of a Muslim classmate, while a five-year-old boy was allegedly called a “Jewish cockroach” and repeatedly hounded in the school toilets by his young classmates.
The two incidents this year – the first involving a year 7 boy at Cheltenham Secondary College and the second a prep student at Hawthorn West Primary School – have prompted the Anti-Defamation Commission to sound an alarm about what it says is a “rapidly spreading” crisis involving anti-Semitic bullying in Victorian state schools….
The older boy’s act of kissing another student’s shoes, under threat of being swarmed by several other boys, was filmed, photographed and shared on social media.
No disciplinary action has been taken against the group of boys involved in the incident, which took place in a public park….
The school and the department have denied having responsibility for the incident, because it did not take place on school grounds, the mother said.
“I took such offence with the Education Department, because there was nothing they did to protect my son at all, at any point in time – that’s what’s cut me up,” she said.
The mother sought out the parents of the Muslim boy, who were horrified by their son’s actions….
The Jewish boy was punched in the face and left with a bruised back and had skin gouged out of his shoulder, his mother said….
The department conceded last month in an apology letter to the parents that the boy had been laughed at in the toilets by other students on this day and said this was unacceptable.
“While school staff were not able to substantiate that any negative interactions were anti-Semitic in nature, on the basis of those investigations, school staff identified an incident that involved children laughing at [the boy],” department director Barbara Crowe said….