{"id":22078,"date":"2025-07-25T21:49:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T21:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/22078\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T21:49:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T21:49:09","slug":"teenagers-hurl-anti-semitic-slurs-at-primary-school-students-during-excursion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/22078\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenagers hurl anti-Semitic slurs at primary school students during excursion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jewish primary school students have been the target of anti-Semitic abuse by a group of high schoolers while on a museum excursion in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/melbourne\" target=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"Melbourne\">Melbourne<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Mount Scopus Memorial College students were on an excursion to Melbourne Museum yesterday when they crossed paths with Year 10 students from another Melbourne high school.<\/p>\n<p>9News understands a group of students chanted &#8216;Free Free Palestine&#8217; towards children in the Mount Scopus group, before unleashing a series of anti-Semitic slurs.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/5c1afb83-b832-492f-a8b6-1dce890f0e43.png\"   alt=\"Young kids subjected to anti-Semitic slurs on school excursion\"\/>The Mount Scopus Memorial College students were on an excursion to Melbourne Museum yesterday when they crossed paths with Year 10 students from another high school. (9News)<\/p>\n<p>Outraged parents have expressed their anger at the situation.\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My granddaughter is in Grade 5, she&#8217;s 10 years old. She is totally traumatised by this\ufeff,&#8221; grandparent Michael told 3AW Mornings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She has no understanding why she was told she was a baby killer and why she was a dirty Jew.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Mount Scopus said it was &#8220;deeply concerned and disappointed&#8221; by the incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During an excursion designed to promote learning, respect, and shared cultural understanding, primary school students from Mount Scopus recounted anti-Semitic and political phrases chanted at them in a shared learning space, on the basis of their visible Jewish identity,&#8221; Mount Scopus Memorial College Principal, Dan Sztrajt said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No child should ever be made to feel unsafe or targeted because of their identity or background.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sztrajt has been in contact with the principal of the other school involved, who expressed concern over the incident, Mount Scopus said. \ufeff<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/bc438f8d-352f-409c-b4cb-34ec0b4eb539.png\"   alt=\"Young kids subjected to anti-Semitic slurs on school excursion\"\/>Teenagers hurl anti-Semitic slurs at primary school students during excursion (9News)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As educators, I believe we share a commitment to challenging prejudice and fostering understanding through education,&#8221; Sztrajt said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To that end, Mount Scopus Memorial College has offered to work together with the other school to ensure that an appropriate educational response to this incident is made available.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Deputy premier and education minister Ben Carroll denounced \ufeffthe attacks in a statement.<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;I&#8217;ve spoken with the Principal of Mount Scopus College today and conveyed my disgust at the anti-Semitic attacks on their students yesterday,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/0ba8e4ef-eb03-4648-ab94-13ea1c75dcf5.png\"   alt=\"Young kids subjected to anti-Semitic slurs on school excursion\"\/>Deputy premier and education minister Ben Carroll denounced \ufeffthe attacks in a statement. (9News)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have offered every support possible to help them through this incident.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is unacceptable that students or staff feel unsafe in the community where they learn, work and play. Hate has no place in Victoria. Our strength is our diversity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Museums Victoria said it had contacted the parties involved, who are handling the matter privately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jewish primary school students have been the target of anti-Semitic abuse by a group of high schoolers while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-22078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}