Hoax Alert: The Silly Students of Mount Scopus (2024)
According to ‘9 News’ in Australia the biggest jewish school in Melbourne - Mount Scopus Memorial College – are ‘terrified’ after some so-called ‘anti-Semitic graffiti’ was found on the school fence.
They write how:
‘The principal of Melbourne's biggest Jewish school says his students are terrified after a death threat was sprayed across its fence.
Jewish leaders say they're experiencing the worst antisemitism in decades and the government needs to step in.
The statement, "Jew die", was sprayed across the entrance of Mount Scopus Memorial College late on Friday night.
School principal Dan Sztrajt was notified early on Saturday.
"What's happened here is a product of the massive rise in antisemitism we've seen across Australia over the last few months," he said.
Sztrajt said his students no longer felt safe and the school had to increase its security.
Jewish Community Council of Victoria president Philip Zajac condemned the graffiti.
"It's [not] acceptable to have hatred being used as a way of terrorising school children," he said.
"This school was set up 75 years ago by Holocaust survivors, and their intention was to create a school that was safe for Jewish people, and unfortunately, that's as true now as it was 75 years ago."’ (1)
The basic problems with this claim are that upon looking at the Mount Scopus Memorial College campus – both the main one and that attached to Deakin University – there are three problems.
A) This graffiti doesn’t appear to have occurred outside the grounds of college since I cannot locate where it was on the walls outside the campus.
B) Both campuses are heavily protected with steel work and checkpoints including security guards.
C) Both campuses have significant amounts of security cameras.
The problem then is that jews are claiming that someone (or some people) spray-painted ‘Jew Die’ on the walls of Mount Scopus Memorial College, but the location of the incident does not appear to be on the outside walls of either campus, which means that it is in one of the campus’ somewhere and also given the security and the security cameras then there should be video footage of the event at the very least.
Yet none has been forthcoming as would usually be the case.
This means that either Mount Scopus Memorial College is hiding something (such as a student spray-painting this themselves), jews are pretending to have more security than they actually do (and are being cheap) or this graffiti didn’t actually occur on campus.
One of these is true and we cannot reasonably say which, but whatever happens someone is lying somewhere.
References
(1) https://www.9news.com.au/national/students-scared-after-antisemitic-message-sprayed-on-melbourne-school-fence/2f615048-b987-4716-88d0-03fd4dd25388