A Brooklyn elementary school classroom was showcasing a map which replaced Israel with Palestine.
The Free Press reported that PS 261 school’s Arab Culture Arts classroom had blotted Israel from its map of the “Arab world.”
According to the Free Press, the Arab Culture Arts class is funded by the Qatar Foundation International (QFI), a non-profit organization which is owned by Qatar’s ruling family, known for providing a safe haven for Hamas terrorists.
After emailing the Department of Education (DOE) with a query about whether the map had remained in the classroom after Hamas’ October 7 attack, The Free Press reports the DOE rhetorically confirmed this to be the case, claiming “this is a map of countries that speak Arabic.” This claim was made in spite of the fact that Palestine is not an internationally recognized country.
The Free Press alleged that the map dated back to at least April 5, 2023, as a subsequently-deleted Twitter post from the QFI prominently featured the map.
While PS 261 has now removed the map, the display does not represent a standalone incident of anti-Israeli and anti-Semitic sentiment in American schools.
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According to an earlier report from the Free Press, a teacher at a public school in Manhattan named Siriana Abboud put up a diagram of different noses with the question “why do people have different noses?” Abboud claimed that “we can often tell ethnicity from the bridge of your nose,” a statement which was interpreted by another teacher in the district as referencing “ethnic tropes of Jews having big noses.” In addition, a course at the Santa Anita Unified School District refers to Israel as an “extremist illegal Jewish settler population” while Brown University’s Choices Program features presentations which refer to Israel as a “settler colony.”
It appears that the dichotomy of victimhood and oppressor promulgated by diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology is finally being drawn into focus by the Israel-Hamas War.
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