A year seven student gave the Nazi salute to taunt one of his classmates amid a series of anti-Semitic bullying incidents at an inner west Sydney high school.
The Balmain Secondary College is reported to have had several such incidents in the previous month, and three students have been suspended from the state run school.
Around fifty per cent per cent of students at the campus are from the top socio-economic percentile. The state school has around eight hundred students, and forty per cent speak a language other than English at home.
Vic Alhadeff, chief executive of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, commented “It’s very concerning when children intimidate their peers with such behaviour and at the same time demonstrate complete disregard for the atrocities committed by the Nazis"