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A warning this story begins with imagery of a swastika. A man has been arrested near the royal commission on antisemitism in Sydney while wearing a t-shirt featuring the symbol. It prompted the inquiry to declare it won't be intimidated. Today children and parents spoke of their experiences of antisemitic abuse and the failure of schools to act.

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00:02Hateful symbols in plain sight.
00:05On the third day of public hearings,
00:07this lone protester wearing a swastika t-shirt
00:10tried to make his views clear.
00:13He was moved on by police for loitering,
00:16but not arrested initially despite new hate speech laws.
00:21However, hours later, he was in custody at Manly Police Station.
00:25That really shows why what's going on at the moment is essential.
00:29The Royal Commission issued a rare warning that it won't be intimidated.
00:34Inside the building, the inquiry heard testimony from Jewish children
00:38too terrified to be identified.
00:41They've thrown coins at me and asked if I was going to pick it up.
00:45On basically every tree you could see, there were swastikas on them.
00:49Two sisters subjected to anti-Semitism at separate public schools,
00:53their mother unaware of just how severe the problem was.
00:58And I didn't realise how much she was subjected to on a daily basis.
01:02A teacher from a Tasmanian school told the inquiry the hatred in the classroom was so intense,
01:08an entire family left their town.
01:11Students would be shouting,
01:12Heil Hitler.
01:14They'd be performing a Nazi salute to each other in classrooms or in the schoolyard.
01:19And when she raised the alarm with the school.
01:22The implication was that I was being emotional.
01:26The inquiry was also played a recording from its youngest witness yet,
01:31a 13-year-old girl who was at Bondi when the shooting happened,
01:35who was left so traumatised, she's now considering taking self-defence lessons.
01:40The hearing continues.
01:42The hearing continues.
01:42The hearing continues.
01:43The hearing continues.
01:43The hearing continues.
01:44The hearing continues.
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