NYC parent, teacher groups promoted pro-Palestinian student walkout: Kids yelled ‘F–k By Deirdre Bardolf and Susan Edelmanthe Jews!’
A Brooklyn parent advisory board promoted and organized a student walkout for Palestinians this week — a clear violation of state regulations, outraged critics told The Post.
The Community Education Council for District 14, which covers ultra-liberal Williamsburg and Greenpoint, used its platform to encourage the 700-student protest involving 100 schools — and even shared resources including antisemitic signs proclaiming, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
Recommended chants included, “Resistance is justified when people are occupied” and “Say it loud, say it clear, we don’t want Zionists here!”
Students protesting on Thursday near Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, were captured on video yelling, “F–k the Jews!”
Jewish students were horrified.
One Fort Hamilton High School mom said her daughter didn’t go to school Friday out of fear.
When the mom called the school, an administrator told her it’s “complicated.”
A toolkit created by parents, teachers, and activist groups provided protest signs with graphics supporting Palestinians.toolkit“I know firsthand what antisemitism is but I never in my life thought my daughter would have to go through something like this,” the mom said.
The parent involvement was slammed as antisemitic, “hate-filled” and a transgression of the board’s responsibilities, which do give them the power to influence educational priorities, evaluate superintendents, advise the Chancellor and Panel for Educational Policy, and serve as district liaisons.
“It’s crazy that they’re allowed to do this,” said one District 14 elementary school mom, who requested anonymity out of fear of retaliation. “You can have your personal opinions but when you’re on a school board, it’s completely inappropriate to publicize them.”
Protest materials and chants suggested for Thursday’s rally included evoking the phrase, “From the River to the sea, Palestine will be free.”toolkitElected officials also slammed the board — and demanded an investigation.
Assemblywoman Stacey Pheffer Amato in Queens demanded to know how much public funding was spent on the rally.
She slammed CEC 14 president Tajh Sutton for using her position “to display her biases on a politically charged issue, promote antisemitism and violate New York City Public School rules.”
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