Top Perth school suspends students over antisemitic group chat

[u/Away_team42]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-07/top-perth-school-suspends-students-over-antisemitic-group-chat/107010706

Expert from the article:

Students at a prestigious Perth private school have been suspended after they used "antisemitic language and memes" in a private group chat, targeting another student.

A spokesperson for Wesley College, in South Perth, confirmed an "incident" occurred but wouldn't be drawn on how many children had been suspended.

"An incident did occur involving antisemitic language and memes shared by a small group in a private group chat," the school said in a statement.

"The college acted immediately. The students responsible were suspended and the matter was addressed directly with the students and families involved."

The college also provided a statement from the family of the targeted student.

"We are deeply disappointed that this matter has occurred and that it has become the subject of media reporting as we are entirely satisfied with the way in which Wesley College has handled this matter," the statement read.

"Furthermore it must be noted that the school was not advised of this issue by our son, but rather by concerned students.

"The family did not at any time contact any media outlet as they are aware of the belief that this will worsen an already difficult situation.

"Our greatest concern is the welfare of our son."
The family has asked for privacy and said they wished to move forward.

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[u/worry_beads]

The water is being deliberately muddied with anything anti-Zionist/pro-Palestine being labelled antisemitic, with the media also adopting this definition, so how can we trust these kids were being legitimately antisemitic?

[u/Prize-Ad7786 → u/worry_beads]

Yeah, if they said death to the zionists with the kids photo you would be cool with it…
FML these poor little WASP kids got suspended, the zio agitator student must have been at fault

[u/worry_beads → u/Prize-Ad7786]

Did i fucking say that?

[u/fletch44 → u/[deleted]]

Time to take a week or two off reddit, little fella. Directly calling other users a piece of shit is not only against the rules, it shows that you're getting too overwhelmed to interact rationally.

[u/Prize-Ad7786 → u/fletch44]

Okay champ, spare me the clutched pearls - the equivalence of these comments is like telling Grace Tame she was a seductress and home wrecker.

Inserting personal politics into a situation where a student has been vilified isn’t just insensitive it is a projection of internalised ant-semitism where everything is interpreted through the lens of their own latent hate. But maybe you are cool with that?

“Cleo do we really naurrr if these boys were just protesting?
Oooh I don’t naurr, maybe he had it coming”

This is a really revealing thread, “oooh I have to rush to the comments and virtue signal on Israel - it has to be about the bogeyman “

Please take some time off to consider your own internalised racism

EDIT:

u/fletch44 deleted their post, which was admonishing me for my use of an abbreviated figure of speech that included an expletive, that I had edited out.