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Yearbook controversy sparks concern for Jewish students at Southern California school
KTLA News ^ | 06/04/24 | Josh Dubose

Posted on 06/05/2024 12:34:45 PM PDT by L.A.Justice

A yearbook at a Southern California high school is the subject of controversy after an article about the Israeli-Hamas war was included in the printing, prompting some students and parents to say the editorial is harmful to the local Jewish community.

The student-written and teacher-approved article entitled, “Whose Land is it Anyway?” was printed on a single page in the Palos Verdes High School yearbook.

For PVHS student Kayla Epstein, the article is problematic and upsetting.

“There’s just so much that’s in this that is incorrect,” Epstein told KTLA’s Gene Kang as she held the yearbook open to the essay.

Critics of the article say it contains misinformation and victim blaming against Israel for the atrocities committed by Hamas in the bloody Oct. 7 attack. Additionally, they feel it has raised safety issues for Jewish students and the South Bay Jewish community.

“Reading things such as ‘the Jewish problem’ or ‘original sin,’ that terminology…it’s heartbreaking to see people who are in my school that genuinely think and believe these things,” Epstein said.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: california; pogrom

You could read the yearbook page at the KTLA website...It is mostly Hamas propaganda...

What a waste of space in a yearbook...

Palos Verdes...Homes in that area are very expensive...I guess some Hamas supporters do live in that area...

The high school administrators sent out the email to parents about this issue...The email stated that this Hamas page does not represent the official position of the school district on Israel...

1 posted on 06/05/2024 12:34:45 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
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To: L.A.Justice

PVHS is chock full of spoiled brat kids. None have ever worked a day in their life, couldn’t change a flat or boil an egg, have their parents’ donations to inflate their grades, and are generally miserable miscreants.

So of course they love the muzzie murderers.


2 posted on 06/05/2024 12:38:42 PM PDT by TonyinLA (I don't have sufficient information to formulate a reasoned opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: L.A.Justice

Political stuff doesn’t belong in a school yearbook.


3 posted on 06/05/2024 12:39:05 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: L.A.Justice

Why was such a page gratuitously inserted in a HS yearbook anyway?..........................


4 posted on 06/05/2024 12:40:07 PM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: L.A.Justice

I am guessing the author of that screed should realize, the land her house is on belongs to Mexico, France, Spain or the Indians and just give back “their” land?


5 posted on 06/05/2024 12:42:07 PM PDT by uranium penguin
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To: L.A.Justice

Who doesnt’t want a yearbook full of Marxist propaganda one teacher complained


6 posted on 06/05/2024 12:42:17 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Red Badger

Probably under the guise of ‘diversity’; without any concern for the ‘diverse’ students it would offend and even frighten.


7 posted on 06/05/2024 12:43:02 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: L.A.Justice

a school publishing such lying trash gives it an aura of authenticity

and it CERTAINLY doesn’t belong in a school publication !!

this is so obvious that whoever was responsible should be fired, forthwith. period. end of file.

and insofar as possible, the printing should be recalled and corrected (this one looks like just removing the offending page is the answer)

the enemies are very, very evil (as difficult as it is to have to acknowledge this...some people like this can be extremely evil indeed!) propagandizing their bloodthirsty lies to school kids is about as evil a thing as possible since the kids will grow up with this infection in their memories


8 posted on 06/05/2024 12:44:14 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (“Politicians are not born. They're excreted.” Marcus Tillius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: L.A.Justice

According to the screed, “Israel” did not exist until 1910 and all Jews there came from Europe.


9 posted on 06/05/2024 12:47:44 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Jamestown1630
Political stuff doesn’t belong in a school yearbook.

I agree...The teacher, who is the yearbook advisor, approved this page...Apparently that teacher thought that it was a good idea...

By the way, high school yearbooks are not cheap...Some of them cost at least $100...

10 posted on 06/05/2024 12:47:57 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
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“Teacher Approved?” Which teacher approved this and are they still employed?


11 posted on 06/05/2024 1:31:00 PM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: L.A.Justice

Suggest writing a supplement to the yearbook with the truth and have it mailed out to all the graduates.


12 posted on 06/05/2024 4:50:10 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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To: Jamestown1630

“”Political stuff doesn’t belong in a school yearbook.””

Must be it’s a first and probably won’t be the last. I never heard of such a thing and I have my school yearbooks going back to the early 1940’s....


13 posted on 06/05/2024 4:55:25 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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