Anti-Semitism is becoming a pervasive, worldwide problem hinged on anti-Israel attitudes.
Australia has seen numerous anti-Israel protests and an increase in anti-Semitic incidents. A Rabbi visiting from Israel was recently attacked. Some of the Australian media have engaged in anti-Semitic tropes.
In the Bondi area of Sydney, a group of religious Jews recently was attacked:
The latest attack was on a school bus used by a Jewish school, from The Daily Telegraph – Australia:
JEWISH schools are on high alert after eight drunken men stormed a school bus and threatened to cut Jewish children’s throats this afternoon.The men allegedly boarded the bus which was carrying children from Mount Sinai, Mariah and Emanuel kindergarten in Bondi.One witness said her three daughters aged eight, 10 and 12 on the bus were traumatised.“The bus driver opened the doors for these strange men and allowed them on to torment the kids,” Jackie Blackburn said.“They were screaming ‘Heil Hitler’, ‘kill the Jews’, ‘Palestine must kill you Jews’, ‘we’re going to cut your throats and slice your throats open’ — just all very bad anti-Semitic stuff.“I’m shaking like a leaf. My kids are on a private school bus it’s only for Jewish schoolchildren.”She described the panicked call made to her by one of her children. “She said: ‘Hey Mummy, please help us, there are eight strange men who have been let on to a school bus and they are screaming ‘Heil Hitler! Kill the Jews!’ they want to cut out our throats’.”
There is video at the link, but as of now, it’s not embeddable. (update – video added, thanks to commenter tip)
The story continues:
Noah, 12, was sitting on the back of the bus.“They got on and couldn’t walk properly and looked drunk and said they had just been pumping drugs in the city,” she said.“They said ‘come sit with us, we won’t do anything’ so we went to the bus driver and said ‘get them off the bus’ and he said ‘don’t worry’ and told them to ‘zip your lips’.“We were panicking and crying. When they got off the bus they said ‘f*** Jews’ and ‘stop taking over Palestine’ and ‘we will kill you and cut your throats’.”
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