Sydney Police have arrested five teenagers for allegedly threatening Jewish primary school students on a school bus in the beachside suburb of Bondi, Wednesday.
A mother of three daughters on the bus, Jacqui Blackburn told the Today Show a group of eight teenagers targeted the young Jewish children with several physical threats including that they would "slit their throats".
And Ms Blackburn said the group of children were too scared to get off the bus with the teenagers saying, "heil Hitler!"
Local residents dobbed in five young men in the early hours of Wednesday morning, but police needed to release the young men back to their parents because they were too drunk to interview.
But according to The Sydney Morning Herald, the Executive Council of Australian Jewry released a statement saying it was "troubled by this latest event and the sequence of anti-Semitic incidents preceding it."
Australia's Racial Discrimination Commissioner immediately condemned the most recent anti-Semitic attack.
Disturbing report of an anti-semitic attack on Jewish schoolchildren in Sydney. There is no place for such racism http://t.co/wlq41TeED2
And the Communications Minister and local member, Malcolm Turnbull called it appalling.
The apalling events on a bus in Sydney today remind us that Racism has no place in Australia | Malcolm Turnbull MP: http://t.co/cPfnSYbHsr
Australian Jewish people pushed back against those who were linking the incident to some sort of larger conspiracy.
I do love how ppl in here are saying the Sydney anti-Semitic bus attack on innocent Jewish kids is part of the Zionist conspiracy/propaganda
Earlier this week, veteran Sydney Morning Herald journalist Mike Carlton resigned over a Gaza column which included a controversial cartoon, that caused outrage in the Australian Jewish community.
