“Pro-Palestinian” activists don’t just block traffic and wreck festive events: They also aim to colonize schools and brainwash kids with scurrilous lies and hate.
The latest outrage: a NYC Educators for Palestine seminar planned for Saturday promoted by Bronx-based virtual public-school principal Terri Grey.
She says the event will “share curriculum” on “the ongoing genocide in Gaza” and “the history of Israeli occupation.”
Mayor Adams and Schools Chancellor David Banks need to stop this lunacy.
No lesson from Educators for Palestine has any place in any classroom: The group’s agenda is spelled out in the sewer-ful of ugly, anti-Israel messages — almost all entirely false or misleading — it’s posted on Instagram.
“Israel’s attacks in Gaza have killed almost 50 students every day on average,” reads one, failing to note that Israel strives to protect civilians while Hamas uses them as human shields.
It demands a cease-fire in Gaza that would leave Hamas free to wage more Oct. 7-style savagery.
And it accuses Israel of genocide.
Grey vows that “every teacher” will leave Saturday’s session with “a collection of lessons they can use with their students” so they can “serve as changemakers within our individual schools.”
Propagandize kids to hate Israel and support terrorists, that is. Scary stuff.
Outraged parents demand the Department of Education cancel the event and discipline Grey, noting: “Schools are meant to be neutral zones for teaching students, not to indoctrinate them with propaganda about a highly complex situation.”
Indeed, these “lessons” can only stigmatize and scare Jewish students, teachers and other staff.
This, when the city’s mishandling of antisemitism in the schools was already under fire: Wednesday, hundreds gathered at DOE headquarters demanding action.
“Jewish students have to face teachers who express anti-Israel bias in class and penalize them for proudly expressing their Zionism,” 11th-grader Hannah Gavrilov reported.
In November, antisemitic students rioted at Hillcrest HS in Queens, forcing a Jewish teacher to hide.
Banks unveiled a plan last week to tackle the problem, but New Yorkers will be judging him, and Adams, on their results.
Their response to Saturday’s teach-kids-to-hate-Israel seminar will be a good first test.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
