EXCLUSIVE: ‘Burn in an oven’
Published in The Australian Jewish News
July 23, 2020
Another former Jewish student of Brighton Secondary College has revealed his experiences of antisemitic bullying, alleging he experienced verbal and physical abuse, including being threatened with a knife.
Sharing his account with the Anti-Defamation Commission (ADC), the boy says that shortly after he commenced at the college in year 7 in 2013, so did the derogatory label, “Jew boy”.
“Students were swearing at me in the corridors, yelling at me to go ‘burn in an oven’,” he recalled.
In year 8, the boy says the bullying became physical, claiming he was “pushed down and kicked at [as] students would walk past and look the other way”.