A 12-year-old Jewish student was forced to kneel down and kiss the shoes of a Muslim classmate, while a five-year-old boy was allegedly called a “Jewish cockroach” and repeatedly hounded over having a “Bris Mila”.

The two incidents this year – the first involving a boy at Cheltenham Secondary College and the second one a student at Hawthorn West Primary School – have prompted the Anti-Defamation Commission to sound an alarm about what it says is a “rapidly spreading” crisis involving anti-Semitic bullying in Victorian state schools.

The boy’s act of kissing another student’s shoes, under threat of being swarmed by several other boys, was filmed, photographed and shared on social media.

No disciplinary action has been taken against the group of boys involved in the incident, which took place in a public park.

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The school and the department have denied having responsibility for the incident, because it did not take place on school grounds.

One of the boys who watched on was later suspended for five days for assaulting the Jewish student in the school locker room.

The Jewish boy was punched in the face and left with a bruised back and had skin gouged out of his shoulder.

Meanwhile, a the mother of a five-year-old boy at Hawthorn West Primary said her son was repeatedly taunted and laughed at over his “Bris Mila”, to the point where he began to wet himself in class rather than go to the bathroom.

The mother said one of the most disturbing aspects of the other children’s insults was anti-Semitic language used such as the words ‘you dirty Jew’ and ‘Jewish cockroach’.

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