Victorian MP Joshua Burns tells an anti-Semitism royal commission about an incident involving Jewish schoolgirls. According to reporting from The West Australian and PerthNow, Burns describes abuse directed at a group of Year 9 students, saying they were screamed at because they were Jewish. The accounts present the case as an example of anti-Semitic conduct faced by students.
Both sources refer to Burns providing the details during proceedings of the commission, which is investigating anti-Semitism in Australia. The reports focus on the allegation that the girls were targeted verbally at school-level age, and that the behavior included being loudly confronted or harassed for their Jewish identity. Neither source indicates that Burns’s testimony includes court findings or formal charges tied to the incident, and the reports do not add specific names, locations, or dates beyond identifying the students as Year 9.
Overall, the coverage agrees on the core elements of Burns’s statement: he is a Victorian MP, he makes submissions to a royal commission, and his testimony describes an episode of anti-Semitic abuse directed at Jewish schoolgirls.
