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Shocking footage of a toddler and other children chanting vile anti-Israel slogans in suburban Melbourne has been called an 'incitement' to hatred by a prominent civil rights spokesman.
The horrific video was taken at a pro-Palestinian rally in Harmony Square outside Greater Dandenong Council on January 24.
At one point, a girl described no older than two or three is coached by an older woman to chant 'from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free' into a megaphone.
That slogan is widely understood to be a call for the destruction of the state of Israel or the genocide of Jews in Israel.
'What was unthinkable five years ago is happening before our very eyes, and this horror-show demands condemnation from our elected leaders,' Dr Dvir Abramovich, chair of the Anti-Defamation Commission, which fights anti-Semitism, told Daily Mail Australia.
Shocking footage of a little girl (pictured) and other children chanting vile anti-Israel slogans in Melbourne has been called an 'incitement' to hatred by a prominent civil rights spokesman
A Pro-Palestine protest at the University of Sydney is pictured on Friday, April 26, 2024
In another clip, which was obtained by Sky News, a young boy gets a crowd of about 100 protesters to follow his chant of 'Intifada revolution, there is only one solution, intifada revolution.'
Intifada is an Arabic word meaning uprising, which in the Israel-Palestine conflict often refers to a call for violence and terror.
In the two intifada periods in Israel - the late 1980s and the early 2000s – around 1,400 Israelis were killed in attacks such as suicide bombings.
Other children at the Dandenong protest were filmed chanting 'Israel is a terrorist state'.
'I am sure that every parent will shudder and be repulsed by this video, which crosses every red line,' Dr Abramovich said.
'I feel sorry for this boy and girl who are being fed a steady diet of
