Brooklyn lawmakers and Jewish advocacy groups have called for the firing of the city’s education chancellor and Sheepshead Bay principal following shocking allegations of anti-Semitism at a public high school.
There were calls Sunday for the firing of Premier David Banks and Origins High School interim principal Dara Kammerman. Press conference A series of allegations, including allegations that after the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel, dozens of teenagers marched through hallways chanting “death to Israel” and “kill all Jews.” After multiple staff members outlined the alarming incident,
“This is a school where things happen every day and there is a culture where this type of behavior is tolerated and accepted. [Department of Education] that’s ok. This is now a pattern, a systemic problem,” said Republican Rep. Inna Vernikov.
The blistering allegations, previously outlined by the Post, include a teacher who was called a “dirty Jew” by a student who said he “should have been killed” at school, and who “made me scared to come to work every day.” ” it included lamenting. Holocaust.
In another incident, a student wearing a Hitler mustache was captured on surveillance cameras walking from classroom to classroom giving the Sieg Heil salute, employees said.
“This is a place where swastikas are painted in faculty rooms, on walls, in classrooms, on blackboards and on students’ laptops,” she claimed. “It has become the norm at this school. Complaints go unheeded. A lack of discipline has encouraged this kind of behavior.”
Dov Hikind, a Democrat who served in the House for decades before retiring in 2018 and switched to being a Republican last year, called the school “a school from hell.”
Last week, Hilkind criticized students who allegedly handed out flyers for a “Memorial to the Palestine Looters” flyer at Brooklyn College.
“Are those looters also the Hamas terrorist Nazis who massacred 1,200 Jews on October 7th?” he asked. “I think so.
“If a teacher says, ‘I live in fear of going to work every day,’ should anyone live in fear of going to work?” Hilkind added. “Especially in public schools and public high schools, everything is paid for with taxes.”
Defenders say there was no serious discipline from Kammerman, the interim principal, and Hikind wrote a letter to parents telling them “not to worry” because he is Jewish. It is said that
Speakers called for her removal and Mr. Banks’ removal as DOE chancellor.
“The banks are not doing anything, and the banks are not going to do anything,” Hikind said, quoting a DOE statement from a front-page article in the Sunday Post.
Kammerman did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Post.
The DOE said it was investigating the allegations of anti-Semitism, adding: “There is no evidence that these allegations are true.”
In response, speakers at the rally accused the nation’s largest school district of “gaslighting” the Jewish community.
