Students at a Brooklyn public high school shaken by shocking reports of anti-Semitism say much of the problem stems from certain groups that go “too far” and cause trouble.
Bombshell remarks at Origins High School in Sheepshead Bay that surfaced over the weekend included one student sporting a Hitler mustache while the crew marched through the hallways with “Death to Israel” and a Palestinian flag. This includes the assertions of the employees.
“That’s just a handful of students,” one high school senior told the Post on Monday, when he returned to class for the first time since the accusations were made. “It’s unfortunate and I understand they’re trying to raise awareness, but why is this happening?”
Two students claimed that this unruly group targets everyone they come across.
“Those kids aren’t just threatening Jews, they’re threatening all the kids here.” [ones]” said one male student who claimed he also used racial slurs to mock black children.
“They’re just racist,” added another student, a female freshman. “They walk around in groups. You don’t want to interact with them.”
Another 10th grade student named Joshua echoed this sentiment, saying he recently heard chants of “Liberate Palestine” in the hallways of his public school.
“I feel sorry for the Jews,” Joshua told the Post. “I don’t know if there’s anything a teacher or principal can do. We also have freedom of speech.”
But not everyone was aware of the alleged anti-Semitic acts. At least a dozen students interviewed by the Post said they had not heard the alleged chant or were aware of the anti-Semitic allegations outlined Sunday. Press conference.
Some supporters called for abolishing city education. Premier David Banks and Origins Interim Principal Dara Kammerman They included a teacher who said she was “scared to come to work every day” following the allegations outlined in the Post report.
The teacher claimed he was called a “dirty Jew” by a student who said he “should have been killed” during the Holocaust.
A female freshman who claimed to have seen a boy with a Hitler mustache also said the school was failing to discipline unruly racists.
“That’s why they do it,” the freshman said.
The city’s Department of Education said it would investigate the allegations, but said there was “no evidence at this time that these allegations are true.”
Speakers at Sunday’s rally accused school officials of gaslighting.
On Monday, six NYPD officers were stationed outside the school during the afternoon dismissal.
Meanwhile, Kobi Nachman, a 52-year-old Jewish man whose 14-year-old son attends Origins, told the Post that his teenage son had been harassed multiple times about his religion.
“There’s a lot of racism,” Nachman said. “Since he came to this school [the other students] Keep telling him “Hamas, Hamas, Hamas.” They told my son that he was a Jewish bastard. ”
When he told his teachers, they said he was crazy, Nachman said.
“They didn’t want to listen, because 95 percent of the schools here are Free Hamas, Free Palestine,” Nachman said, adding that her son is on a waiting list to transfer to another school.
Campus manager Michael Bewdley, 48, told the Post that he has witnessed anti-Semitism firsthand and that administrators are retaliating against him as a result.
But Bewdley, who has worked at the school for nine years, has already hired a lawyer and declined to go into details.
“I can’t say any more because I have a lawyer now,” Bewdley said. “But the photos and content there are [earlier] The article itself speaks for itself. ”
Some students supported the school and its leaders.
Barry Candle, a 17-year-old student, defended himself. Kammermanthe principal said he had never experienced anything like ridicule.
“I don’t think she should be fired because she’s actually a really good person,” she said, adding that the supposed anti-Semitism was just a rally calling for the liberation of Palestine.
“I don’t think what people are saying about her is true,” she continued. “It’s not as bad as the media is making it out to be.”
