A Facebook network of senior students from two of Sydney’s most elite private schools have offended the Jewish community with antisemitic slurs.
Students from The Scots College in Bellevue Hill
created a Facebook site called Jew Parking Appreciation Group which describes “Jew Parking” as an art which often occurs at “Bellevue (Jew) Hill“.
The site, which has 51 members, contains a link to The Scots Year 12 Boys, 2008, and The Scots College networks, and is administered by Scots students.
It is connected to another network created and officiated by Scots College students with postings that include “support Holocaust denial” and a link to another internet address called “Fuck Israel and Their Holocaust Bullshit“.
The site contains what appears to be Arabic writing, giving it the appearance of a mock Islamic site.
One of the four “officers” heading the site is a student from Kambala School for Girls in Rose Bay. The site has 47 members.
A Scots College Year 12 student involved in the Facebook network yesterday told the Herald that while he could understand how Jews might be offended by comments on the website, they were part of a “big in-joke” shared among students from eastern suburbs private schools.
Source:
http://www.smh.com.au
