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More than a thousand Victorian high school students walked out of classrooms to protest in support of Palestine on Thursday, November 23. Students were heard chanting “Allahu Akbar” as well as the anti-Semitic phrase “from the river to the sea” as they demanded an “end to the war on Gaza”. Speakers at the protest claimed the October 7 terror attack by Hamas against Israel was “not unprecedented”. The rally has been heavily criticized by both Labor and Liberal politicians, but the Greens declared students “should be encouraged to exercise their democratic right to protest“. Sky News host Sharri Markson denounced the protest during her Thursday evening editorial, accusing the organisers of “grooming a new generation to hate jews”.
