A Sydney Trains employee has been stood down while the agency investigates his involvement in an anti-Jewish protest outside NSW Parliament organised by a group of neo-Nazis.

Cooper Stephens was among the 60-odd black-clad members of the National Socialist Network who rallied alongside a banner reading “Abolish the Jewish lobby” and shouted Hitler Youth slogans last Saturday.

Sydney Trains have stood down Cooper Stephens (front centre) after he participated in Saturday’s rally outside NSW Parliament House.

The Herald understands Stephens, based in south-west Sydney, works as a train guard for the state government agency. In a statement, a spokesman for Sydney Trains said it was “very concerned with the matter”.

“In the interim, Sydney Trains has directed the employee not to attend

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