The president of the Zionist Federation of Australia has called on the Education Department to intervene after a teacher made inflammatory comments at a rally on Sunday.

The teacher from Prahran High School said “Hamas is doing exactly what they have to do because Israel has left them with no choice”.

Zionist Federation of Australia president, Jeremy Leibler, says the teacher’s classroom is “simply, objectively not a safe space for Jewish students and it is incumbent on both the principal and the Education Department to do something about it”.

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