Jewish students targeted in museum incident 

Jewish students from Mount Scopus Memorial College were targeted with antisemitic chanting during a Year 5 excursion to the Melbourne Museum on Thursday.

High school students from another school, identified as Gladstone Park Secondary College in Melbourne’s north west, chanted “free, free, Palestine” at the Mount Scopus group while both schools were working in the same museum area.

The college’s group leader immediately confronted the senior school educators with the Gladstone Park group to address their students’ behaviour, and Mount Scopus students were moved away from the other group.

In a letter to parents, Mount Scopus confirmed the college will follow up with the other school’s principal regarding the incident.

“Upon returning to the college, we conducted a wellbeing check on all students to ensure they felt safe and supported,” the letter stated.