News: Alleged Anti-Semitic bus attack leaves kids scared for their lives.

By SHAUNA ANDERSON

UPDATE:

Five teenagers have been arrested over the alleged anti-Semitic attack of children on a Sydney school bus.

Police report the alleged offenders were arrested at Dover Heights at around 3:30am this morning.

The Daily Telegraph reports several teenagers aged between 15 and 17 were interviewed in Dover Heights this morning in relation to the incident, but were too intoxicated to be formally interviewed.

The alleged verbal attack occurred around 3:50pm on Wednesday when a group of teenagers got on the bus at Darley Road in Randwick, The Sydney Morning Herald reports. It is alleged the teenagers began to racially taunt and make physical threats to the children.

They have been released into the custody of their parents as the investigation continues and are yet to be charged.

Previously, Mamamia reported… 

A gang of teenagers have allegedly stormed a school bus of students aged between 5 and 12 and threatened to slit their throats.

They are said to have called the young girls “f..king c..ts” and racially abused them.

The terrified children rang their parents from the bus, saying they thought they were going to die — shaking, traumatised, scared for their lives, with “kill the Jews” ringing in their ears.

The Daily Telegraph report that the alleged racial attack took place on a school bus travelling though the eastern suburbs of Sydney towards Bondi Junction at 4pm yesterday.

The children were from three Jewish schools – Mount Sinai College, Moriah College and Emanuel School.

The youth, reported by the children to be drunk and smelling of alcohol, allegedly boarded the private bus after the bus driver let them on.

One student told News Limited that the teenagers were drunk and had been “pumping drugs”.

Jacqui Blackburn, a mother of three girls on the bus, told The Daily Telegraph that her daughters were traumatised. “The bus driver opened the doors for these strange men and allowed them on to torment the kids,” she said.

“They were screaming ‘Heil Hitler’, ‘Kill the Jews’, ‘Palestine must kill you Jews’, ‘We are going to cut your throats and slice your throats open’ — just all very bad, anti-Semitic stuff.”

News Limited report that the bus driver denies the youth were drunk.

According to students the children ran to the front of the bus, and one female student said “ They told the girls they were ‘f … ing c … s.”

From The Daily Telegraph:

“Another mother, Isabelle Stanton, whose daughters Noa, 8, and Anais, 12, boarded at Mount Sinai College in Maroubra, said:’They were screaming racial stuff, “We are going to murder you”, “We are going to kill you”, and “Free Palestine”. When they got on the bus they wanted to sit next to the kids. When they got off they kicked the door and windows of the bus and yelled, “We are going to bash you guys. F. ­Israel, Free Palestine”.’

Jacqui Blackburn has called for parents to be alert for racial attacks.

“Jewish schools need to be on high alert. I am shaking like a leaf. My kids were on a private school bus only for Jewish schoolchildren,” she said.

The NSW Jewish Board of Deputies Board chief executive Vic Alhadeff condemned the horrific incident saying “We are deeply disturbed by this incident and we are working with the police and the state government to ensure that proper and adequate security measures are put in place,” he told The Daily Telegraph.

Police are investigating the attack and say they are looking for a gang of teenagers.

Meanwhile parents around Australia hold their children a little closer incredulous that this kind of terror has invaded our society.

Anyone with information is urged to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
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