Hundreds of “radicalized” students ran rampant through the halls of Hillcrest High School in Jamaica, Queens, for nearly two hours this past Monday, prompted by a teacher’s attendance at a pro-Israel rally. The teacher herself had to hide during the rampage to avoided being lynched.
The controversy centered around the teacher’s Facebook profile photo, which displayed her at a pro-Israel rally on October 9th, holding a poster declaring, “I stand with Israel.”
A group of students subsequently organized a chat to advertise the teacher’s attendance at the rally, leading to discussions about staging a protest. As a result, chaos ensued as hundreds of students poured into the hallways, chanting, jumping, shouting, and waving Palestinian flags and banners. Despite the efforts of school staff to block their entry, many students attempted to barge into the teacher’s classroom.
Witnesses told the NY Post that the protest was characterized by chants of “Free Palestine!” and calls for the teacher’s firing. School administrators and the NYPD were alerted to the situation just in time to escort the teacher to safety, locking her in an office as the chaos unfolded.
The situation escalated as some students vandalized the school, with reports of a water fountain being torn out and damage to the second-floor boys’ bathroom.
The NYPD responded, deploying a significant number of officers to restore order. They also involved their counterterrorism bureau to investigate a potential threat to the school.
School authorities, with the assistance of a sergeant stationed at the school, eventually managed to corral the students back into classrooms.
The situation took a further disturbing turn when it was alleged that some students had accessed the teacher’s personal information, including her address and phone number.
This incident, lasting approximately two hours, stands out as one of the most alarming instances of antisemitism in New York schools and colleges in recent memory.
NYC Mayor Adams tweeted the following: “The vile show of antisemitism at Hillcrest High School was motivated by ignorance-fueled hatred, plain and simple, and it will not be tolerated in any of our schools, let alone anywhere else in our city. We are better than this.”
It comes on the heels of a pro-Palestinian citywide walkout by nearly 700 NYC high school students on November 9th, during which some students were captured on video making antisemitic statements.
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Just don’t make any comment about them being African American that’s racist, doesn’t matter if they think their still in the jungle in Africa and they think they can do whatever they want……
SAME OLD CRIMINALS, THE AFRICAN IMPORTS…..
cmon really now and how in the world did they manage 2 get a hold of the teacher’s personal information by looking in 2 her pocketbook and maybe emptying it and scattering it all over the teacher’s room 4 all the students 2 maybe see where she lives and maybe even try 2 call her on the phone and say 2 her who knows whatever they want to it’s after all a free world we live in now isn’t it and even get 2 follow her home and cv kill her in front of her kids 2 see is that what we are teaching our kids 2 behave like animals what type of of crazy world are we living in these days anyways
So what did the school and Mayor Adams do about this?
Saying it will not be tolerated once it’s already happened is kind of meaningless. She was already terrorized.
“We will not tolerate this”, but it’s happening everywhere right under your nose.
This is where our precious tax dollars go.
To these educational facilities teaching high levels of learning and morals.
But if hardworking Americans, who actually pay the taxes, want to send their kids to private school, they have to go broke
NYC Mayor Adams tweeted the following: “The vile show of antisemitism at Hillcrest High School was motivated by ignorance-fueled hatred, plain and simple, and it will not be tolerated in any of our schools, let alone anywhere else in our city. We are better than this.”
All empty meaningless words. This bum is all talk, no do. Same for Hochul and Letitia James. They have shown with their lack of action, a distain for the Jewish community. The main emphasis must be on combating Islamophobia. They did absolutely nothing after the Cooper Union riot, so this is no shock. This pattern will continue unfortunately. As long as we catch Trump on some fussy numbers on his personal tax returns and hire more transgender law enforcement agents, all is good. Sedom!
Bears all the hallmarks of Palestinians; violence, vandalism, entitlement, ignorance. Send them to Gaza.
Moster said that it’s totally unfair that Jewish children do not get a basic public school education that gets them ahead in life. Look at these public students in the article, they, and all public school students, are a shining example of a well-rounded education provided by the State of NY.
The rioters should be punished severely. Police should use billy clubs to put an end to riots. Too much molly coddling of bad actors is allowed.
Slash the DOE budget as much as possible with the exception of safety officers.
Assuming the school didn’t immediately call the police, who then arrested the students (and perhaps employees) who engaged in the attack, the teacher has a cause of action against the school for employment discrimination (for allowing a hostile workplace), and against the local government under the civil rights act (under the anti-Klan provisions).