One of Top Private Schools Parents have accused the country’s schools of “degenerating” into “hotbeds of Jew-hatred”.
A Jewish student who graduated from the ethical Fieldston School in the Bronx was tormented by classmates who called him an “ethnic cleanser” and a “colonialist” and witnessed a teacher give the middle finger to a rabbi during an assembly, his mother said.
“Fieldston is a hotbed of Jew-hatred and students who support terrorism are representative of the ‘trigger warning’ generation,” said Dr Logan Levkoff. Instagram post.
Levkoff’s post on Tuesday came in response to a letter written by a student defending classmates accused of vandalizing their school with anti-Israel graffiti and blaming their Jewish parents, claiming that their parents were “intimidating” them and “suppressing” ideas that did not align with the “Zionist ideology.”
The students were responding to Jewish parents and alumni who had written letters demanding that the school, where they pay $63,000 a year in tuition, protect their children in light of anti-Semitic incidents following the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas.
“The pro-terror students at Fieldston responded to the Jewish community’s letter with a five-page letter,” Levkoff, a relationship expert and self-described “Jewish hockey mom who talks sex,” shared with her 15,000 followers. “So now it’s my turn.”
“For years they have intimidated Jewish students, forcing them into silence for fear of being called racist if they spoke out,” Levkoff wrote.
“Enough is enough,” she added. “Some of us have been playing the ‘good Jew’ for far too long.”
In their letter, the students also argued that a “vulnerable 16-year-old girl of colour” was being “scapegoated” after “Liberate Palestine” was graffitied on her school building.
“This student continues to be blamed and demonized for protest actions that he was not informed would be against the rules,” they wrote.
“Students could not have known what words and symbols are perceived as causing harm and why,” the Ivy League hopefuls argued.
The link to the letter has since been removed.
One Fieldston official doubted that the children wrote the letters themselves, and suspected that extremist teachers or parents may have cooperated.
“No kid is smart enough to write that…it’s full of jargon,” they said.
The controversy is the latest in a series of racial and religious incidents in the country over the past decade.
One former Fieldston parent blamed the recent dispute on “the complete failure of the school administration to teach a fair and balanced curriculum.” She added that the school had “made the bonds that bind the community untenable.”
Officials pointed to the school’s DEI programs, such as so-called “affinity groups” that separate students by race and identity, an effort led by the five-person Office of Belonging and Social Impact team.
“They don’t unite people, they tear them apart,” the source said, adding that it was a small group that stoked and supported anti-Israel and anti-Semitic sentiment.
“Fieldston was founded by Jews and was meant to be a safe haven for the Jewish community,” lamented one private school parent. “For the school to have degenerated into this state is completely antithetical to what it should represent.”
“Those who attend Fieldston pay significant tuition fees believing that this is the university they were meant to attend, but they are waking up to an unexpected reality,” she added.
Fieldston did not respond to inquiries.
