Posted on 05/20/2018 9:23:43 AM PDT by doug from upland
Unclear if tribute announced over loudspeaker by student was approved by principal; parents say they don't understand why school waded into conflict By TOI STAFF
Several Jewish parents expressed outrage over the weekend after children at a New York City school were instructed to observe a moment of silence for the dozens of Palestinians killed during clashes along the Gaza border.
The announcement of the Tuesday tribute at Beacon High School in Hell’s Kitchen was made by a student over the school’s PA system. It was not clear whether the decision had been approved by the school principal.
The New York Post, which reported the story, said it was not able to reach principal Ruth Lacey for comment.
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“I am extremely upset because I did not send my child to a New York City public school to pray for Hamas operatives,” a Jewish father told the Post.
The deaths of 62 Palestinians during Monday’s violent protests were met with international outrage and calls for an independent investigation of events. The UN’s Human Rights Council on Friday ordered a probe, and a resolution prepared by Kuwait for the UN Security Council urges the deployment of an international force to protect Gazans. Hamas has subsequently admitted that 50 of the dead were members of the terror group. Three others were Islamic Jihad members.
“I just don’t think any school should be promoting a moment of silence for terrorists. What if it was Islamic terrorists in ISIS?” a Jewish mother said. “No school would be having that over the loudspeaker.”
Jewish student Sophie Steinberg told the paper, “I could see a lot of my Jewish friends get very weird when the moment of silence started…They don’t know how to feel. They don’t know how to fit into all of this.”
Parents who tried to contact Lacey said she had not been responsive to their overtures.
The Zionist Organization of America said it would demand an apology from the school. ZOA President Morton Klein told the Post, “It is disgraceful to mourn the death of Hamas terrorists.”
On Wednesday a few dozen young Jews in London recited Kaddish, the Jewish mourning prayer, for fatalities in Gaza. The activists gathered outside Parliament Square and read the names of the 62 Gazan Palestinians listed by the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza as killed in clashes.
“When Palestinians stand resolute on the Gazan border [for] their freedom and their right to return, they are not committing acts of terrorism, they are performing a mitzvah,” one of the speakers at the Kaddish for Gaza event said.
Since March 30, tens of thousands of Palestinians have taken part in weekly “March of Return” protests, which Israel says are orchestrated by the Hamas terror group and used as cover for attempted terror attacks and breaches of the border fence.
The violent demonstrations were meant to end on May 15, but Hamas leaders have said they want them to continue.
Just once instead of a moment of silence I wish they’d play Another One Bites the Dust and authorize some whoopin’ and hollerin’.
The left instinctively sides with evil.
Yes. The liberals hate the Jews even though the Jews vote for liberals. The world is that messed up.
Somehow leftist American Jews believe that “diversity” and “inclusion” are going to work out well for their children and grandchildren. Simultaneously, these are the smartest and dumbest people on the planet.
People get the government they tolerate.
But Israel has the liberal standards...
I’d like to know who those parents vote for.
Just what I was going to say, I grew up in New York schity and this is par for the course for the Jews there: They fanatically support liberals then they complain when these liberals act like the antisemetic asswads they are.
Those school administrators should have their noses rubbed in Thomas Wictor’s excellent analysis of what Hamas had planned and how and why it failed
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Jesse Jackson’s going to have to rename it Palitown.
Who was the student?
The Lying Left is AKA the Islamic Jishaism and is AKA Wolrd Totlaitain Govnemt Mvenemt.
The Right has allowed the Lying Left to take over most of our institutions including education. School-sponsored sympathy for the devil AKA the Palestinian terrorists should be no surprise.
The most Jewish large city in the USA outside maybe ...bizarre...more Jews in New York City than anywhere but Israel
This reminds me
Jeannine Pierro last night asked BiBi Netanyahu why so many American leftist Jews hated trump and refused to participate in the Jerusalem festivities
Almost none attended
I looked at wifey and I said that’s s a great ballsy question ....you go girl!
I waited excited to hear Bibi give a candid reply .
Boy he just dodged totally and refused to say anything in response to the question....zilch nada....just rhetoric totally off point ..like a pro of course
He can’t be honest...some are big donors and supporters even if libtards is my guess
What, no ‘spark of humanity’ for Hamas?
>>The left instinctively sides with evil.<<
And the Jews overwhelmingly side with the left.
I have had it explained to me but today with all the information available it makes no sense.
“Jeannine Pierro last night asked BiBi Netanyahu why so many American leftist Jews hated trump and refused to participate in the Jerusalem festivities”
Would have been nice to hear: “Because, Jeannine, American Jews are communists before they’re Jews. They hate me and they hate Trump. They hate anything that might actually defend and protect their very existence.”
They held this moment of silence to hit the President. The lib/commies who head this school want to show solidarity with Hamas since the President criticized them. What will be the school’s next move? Having an ms 13 gang member lecture to the students (in between raping some and cutting out the hearts of others)?
I call this kind of a story "fake news from the right", where the NYP is projecting or exaggerating the sense of outrage from Jewish parents in NYC. In reality, only a small smattering of conservative Jews were outraged by it (including perhaps the New York Post authors) - the rest welcomed it.
not that the Jews would do this, but what would the media do if Jews acted like muslims and danced and celebrated the deaths of hammas at the border? Can you imagine the outrage towards Jews if that happened?
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