UNRWA KIDS SCHOOL PLAY: Jews in cages, guns, knives, blood

Do you remember how, in first grade, your teachers organized a play at the end of the year to show off in front of mom and dad? Watch how UNRWA does it!

Well, if you went to a UNRWA school, you could have been a knife-welding maiden slitting throats of a soldier, or kidnap a Jew, stuff him into a cage and torture him.

UNRWA teaches impressionable kids to be “real men” and not waste time on Pinocchio or Peter Pan and hopefully, that child will become later on, a true Hamas fighter, and inshallah – a martyr enjoying paradise!

Watch this play at a Palestinian UNRWA school, supported by your American tax dollars.

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Moms For Liberty: Exposé on Slander by NYC Democrat Politicians and Leftwing Media

From Moms For Liberty after the Town Hall on Jan. 18, 2024: “We had an open conversation on the state of education in New York with NYC elected leaders and parents in the community. Plus a keynote speech from Billboard Chris.

THEY CARE ABOUT THE CHILDREN – Photo Pamela Hall 2022

Inside Bohemian Hall, “questions were answered, and voices from all viewpoints who wanted to engage in collaborative conversation were welcomed. We loved being in NYC.”

Unable to attend but that will not stop me from reporting on the event and the  anti-Moms propaganda parroted by the leftists, politicians and media.

Moms for Liberty is a hate group, plain and simple. And hate has no place in New York City.” Tony Simone: Assembly member, 75th District

They used the hate grouSPLC (the infamous Southern Poverty Law Center) as their authority on mislabeled hate groups.

The SPLC Is Massively Over counting ‘Hate’ Groups—and It’s Not Just Moms for Liberty” (Reason.com)

Map Southern Poverty Law Center, 2022

”At this rate, the Southern Poverty Law Center‘s HATE MAP might eventually describe everyone as an extremist.”

Southern Poverty Law Center’s Despicable Attack on Parental Rights Is a Sign of Leftist Panic”

The Southern Poverty Law Center does one of the Left’s filthiest jobs: It smears political enemies as “hate groups,” putting these organizations’ staff at risk. It thus spreads hatred while mawkishly pretending to fight it. It foolishly believes its wall of sanctimony will obscure its ruthless tactics.” [The Heritage Foundation]

NOTHING that was said inside by a very diverse panel was going to change the stories they had already written. What follows is a look at some of the slanted reporting as well as videos from left and right, leading off with the NY Daily News one-sided headline.

In this video of Manhattan Borough President, Mark Levine , outside Bohemian Hall, he rants the predictable slander  (Freedom News TV)

Other videos and articles, like this from the Daily Beast‘s Kate Briquelet Senior Reporter is an example of leftist journalism, all slant. No matter what she heard inside, the Moms for Liberty were racist BIGOTS.” (mobbed?). Noisy, but easily contained by the police.

Protesters flocked to Manhattan on Thursday to oppose the right-wing extremist group, which hosted a “town hall” for “an honest conversation on the state of education” that featured anti-trans and school choice activists. (Among them were state and city lawmakers and Moms for Liberty opposition group Defense of Democracy.)

Jo Macellaroa public school teacher in the Bronx, stood near the entrance with a sign reading, “I’m the trans teacher you’re so scared of.”(pronouns they/them)

…”they’ve” worked with trans students in elementary school and said, “It’s hard for me to imagine how hard it is for them,” especially when “most of the information from people like Moms for Liberty is false. Trans kids I know just want to be kids.” (also) …   protect kids …. students (need) access to books, therapy, medical care, and the ability to ask questions.”

Kate Briquelet continued with her negative report:

“But most of the airtime was spent listening to panelists stoke fears about the usual conservative bugbears: transgender care for minors and critical race theory. For about 15 minutes at the end, a handful of people in the crowd were able to ask questions, which resulted in anger and several fraught interactions. This, despite an event flyer claiming that “all viewpoints are welcome.”

My reaction: The full length video shows the only “fraught interactions” were caused by lefties who asked questions that were out right lies: ALL viewpoints were permitted doesn’t mean everyone has to like it.

Panelists included “Billboard Chris,” a frequent Moms for Liberty collaborator who travels the continent railing against gender-affirming care for minors, and Nicholas Giordano, a community college professor and occasional Fox News contributor.

Other “parents rights” adherents included NYC community education council member Maud Maron, who called trans-identifying children “a social contagion” and Paul Rossi, a former private school teacher fired for challenging anti-racism lessons. He is now a consultant for affluent parents concerned about “woke” ideology, the New York Post reported.

Another participant, Wai Wah Chin of the Chinese American Citizens Alliance Greater New York, was reportedly instrumental in ending affirmative action.”

Briquelet ended with this bit of “drama” while omitting his name:

“After the town hall ended amid bickering and shouts and one man being escorted out .

(“The One Man” ejected was Leftist troublemaker WALTER MATHESON – a Sascha Baron Cohen wanna-be) [screen grab photos – AOK News ] 

A few days later he harassed people leaving Henry Kissinger’s memorial with a ‘F**k Kissinger” sign. [picture of sign-Freedom News TV]

Sonni Mun (MD), a Manhattan parent told The Daily Beast, “It wasn’t a town hall. It was a disinformation campaign.”

[I’m familiar with Sonni–  a dedicated hard-core leftistMY pictures of her include Sonni and her pro-abortion friend’s UnF**k the world t-shirt in 2023 and her cute “It’s the f-ing guns” PINK t-shirt at an anti-gun rally in 2022.

Sonni’s quote is an incorrect assessment of the Town Hall: “This is New York City and I didn’t expect it to be as insane as it was,” she added. “I was sort of shocked at the amount of hate and misinformation and that they basically talked about everything except curriculum and education.” (The full video at the end of this article verifies that curriculum and education was very prevalent in the discussions.)

To be expected, Kate Briquelet, made these non-question plants VICTIMS of the Moms. [both photos Pamela Hall 2022/23]

“Moms for Liberty advertised their NYC event as a “town hall” but so far no audience members have been able to ask questions & it’s supposed to end in 10 minutes. Ahead of audience Qs, they showed us a clip from a COVID documentary.” – [The 15 minute documentary teaser was 01:09]

“How they’re responding to people’s concerns. People are telling this woman to shut up but they wouldn’t let her finish her Q.” [This woman would not let the panelist respond. SHE was yelling over him—so the audience did tell her to be quiet, to let him talk.]

This man repeated the leftist lies that claim curriculum and education were not discussed, despite the FACT that they were discussed.

Moms 4 Liberty posted a complete video of the Town Hall (2 hours)

.The leftists were planted around the room, knowing full well there would be vocal reactions to their snarky comments, so the left-media can accuse the so-called chaos of impeding an open town hall.

They ask who gave M4L the right to dictate how to educate their children without explaining “why it is okay for THEM to tell parents how to educate their children”. It’s one-sided. The left-media skips that part ’cause they know it’s one-sided.

Government schools fill hours of so-called education with “how to protest white people and conservatives and Christians and now : Jews and Israel.” Left-media does not admit they are the hypocrites.

Yes, the Three R’s are important but they are seriously neglected by the LEFT, not the Mom’s For Liberty crowd.  Children fail maths, can’t write in cursive (or at all) and only know the rewritten history foisted on them by leftist teachers who idolize Marxists like Howard Zinn and promote the fake history of the 1619 Project. Without apology, they ban Thomas Sowell, the Bible, Conservatives, Republicans, the real history of Israel as well as historians like Paul Johnson.

Bastardized history that teaches  hatred, to reshape our country while creating a dystopian world ; this is our future,  the New World Order, the Great Reset if they are not stopped by groups like Moms For Liberty.

This clip is rife with falsehoods as Joy Reid of MSNBC rudely talks over Tiffany Justice. She begins with Tiffany Justice (at 1:05) (16 min clip- MSNBC)

Joy  could not let go of the misinformation re banning,  ignoring the books LEFTIST have banned (books with racist or what they label offensive language.)

“All Boys are Blue”/rape of minor child/strap-on dildo/incest- pedophilia- predators- Joy claims moms take it OUT OF CONTEXT.
Joy lobs the “expertise” question with a snarky quip that Tiffany is  NOT AN EXPERT and WHO gave Tiffany the right to ‘ban’ books’

Joy mentions library OPT OUT FORMS for students. For books like  Ruby Bridges. Tiffany says graphic sexual contact is at issue, but Joy won’t let Tiffany talk; to explain.

Tiffany points out that Moms 4 Liberty have not BANNED books.

Found a conservative reading list that a leftist school removed from approved reading. 

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Outside the Town Hall was a table set by the People for the American Way with BOOKS supposedly ‘banned’ by the Mom’s and their ilk. [photo by hate speech]

Check out this outrageous alternative to Moms 4 Liberty, a stomach turning website: Defense Of Democracy.

“In the spring of 2022, two moms in a small upstate New York town came together to fight back against three school board candidates endorsed by the hate group Moms for Liberty. “

We support educators who present historically and scientifically accurate information…”

https://linktr.ee/defenseofdemocracy
https://www.instagram.com/dofdnational

Since book ‘banning’ is such a hot topic for the left-media and the leftist orgs, these excerpts from a few articles (with links at end) reveal more about the hypocritical Left’s actual banning of BOOKS.

Liberals cannot open the door to censorship for reasons they consider good without also opening the door for reasons they consider not-so-good.

There were at least 2,532 book challenges from July 2021 to June 2022, affecting 1,648 book titles, according to a report by the “free expression protection group” PEN America. According to the American Library Association,… any book that is challenged is considered to be a “banned book.”

.… liberal efforts criticized or restricted books in the name of anti-racism or progressive ideals.

Books like “Of Mice and Men;” “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” and several Dr. Seuss titles have been challenged in some schools and libraries due to racist language or imagery throughout the years, including the use of the n-word or insensitive imagery of racial stereotypes, according to the ALA.

Just as conservatives have gained traction on gender identity by asking leftists to define the word “woman,” they could also reframe the book debate by asking them to define the word “ban.” They shouldn’t let the Left avoid acknowledging the explicit or graphic content of many of these books, and they should ask defenders of these titles whether they want their own children reading them. When movies and television programs are rated PG–13, R, or X—and consequently restricted for younger viewers—that doesn’t mean that they’re banned. The same principle goes for books.

… “progressive” education is designed to teach a single position as the only position. There can’t be debate over abortion, evolution, climate change, homosexuality, transgenderism, and any number of other leftist positions.

Students must be shielded from well-reasoned contrary positions. Just seeing a list of 31 books might give students the wrong impression of what they’ve been taught for 12 years. “You mean there is another position?”

1984, perfect example of how teaching its intended allegory has been lost

It’s hard for many Americans to believe, but their schools have been taken over by an alien worldview designed to shape their children into non-thinking wards of the State as THE LEFT CONTINUES to PERVERT the EDUCATION of our CHILDREN.

Bill Maher doubled down. “Everything I read, whatever source, it’s only half the truth. They print the narrative. They don’t print truth.” 

The left claims
 that progressive books are being censored in public schools. But my research proves the opposite is true…. students complained that their school libraries had become one-sided, offering only books in line with progressive orthodoxy.

FACT: the Public Library System is controlled by the LEFT.

The ALA has long been notoriously liberal. While many other library associations around the world condemned the Cuban regime’s closure of libraries and jailing of dissident librarians, the ALA never did.

America’s one-sided school libraries are failing students. No wonder only 16% of Gen Z says they are proud to live in America, according to a January 2023 Morning Consult poll. They don’t have access to books that present our country in an honest light.”

It’s no secret that many school libraries have become reflections of politicized librarians. Take Emily Drabinski, president of the American Library Association and a self-proclaimed Marxist, who said during a socialism conference last September in Chicago that public education “needs to be a site of socialist organizing. I think libraries really do, too. We need to be on the agenda of socialist organizing.”

YET MOMS FOR LIBERTY ARE THE EXTREMISTS?

Click here to view infographic: My Power and Privilege.

Click here to view infographic: Wheel of Power/Privilege

WHAT NONSENSE.

[All pictures articles and videos are attributed]

LINKS For articles that focused on Left Book Bans:

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OCT. 7 SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Professors Teaching Hate

  • Since the October 7 massacre by Hamas of 1,200 Israelis & the kidnapping of 240 more, campus antisemitism has exploded, leaving Jewish students shocked, afraid & amassing resources to fight back.
  • Ivy League schools have been some of the worst offenders. After years of printing orientation materials warning incoming students to avoid offending their fellow students through long lists of microaggressions, universities are now suddenly standing behind principles of free speech.
  • This free speech “awakening” – witnessed in congressional testimony by the presidents of Harvard, Penn and MIT – has served as a smokescreen, facilitating the worst hate speech directed at Jewish students on their campuses. (Chart 1)

Professors on Campus: Support & Apologetics for Hamas

Since Oct. 7, Canary Mission has profiled 56 professors at a variety of universities in the United States and Canada. Of those professors,

  • 45 percent have either expressed support for Hamas, defended Hamas, whitewashed Hamas terrorism or blamed Israel for Hamas’ crimes of Oct.7
  • 38 percent have spread antisemitism or promoted hatred of or demonized Israel
  • 17 percent have been caught ripping down posters of Israeli hostages held by Hamas in Gaza

Others have targeted Jewish students in their classes. We even documented one professor who violently attacked Jewish students. (Chart 2)

Antisemitism on Campus Post Oct. 7

Nationwide, these statistics represent a trend. In the month following the Oct. 7 attack, Hillel International tracked a 700-percent increase in antisemitic incidents on college campuses compared to the same period last year.

In a recent ADL and Hillel International survey, 73 percent of Jewish college students said they experienced or witnessed antisemitic incidents on their campuses since the start of the 2023 academic year. Before Oct. 7, 67 percent of Jewish students said they felt “very” or “extremely” physically safe on campus. Since the attack, only 46 percent said the same.

Professors on Campus

DEFENDED HAMAS TERRORISM

  • Mika Tosca: Mika Tosca called Israelis “pigs. Savages. Very very bad people. Irredeemable excrement” on an Instagram Story following Hamas terror attacks and war crimes in October 2023, which left over 1,400 Israelis dead. The text of Tosca’s same Instagram Story slide concluded: “May they all rot in hell.”
  • Rachel Weber: Rachel Weber is a university lecturer who refused to condemn Hamas terror attacks on Israeli civilians and spread hatred of Israel during Israel’s war against Hamas in October 2023.
  • Michael Barnett: Michael Barnett claimed that Hamas terrorists have a “right of resistance” while he was speaking on a GWU panel in December 20
  • Michel DeGraff: Michel DeGraff is a university professor who justified Hamas terrorism, spread anti-Semitism and called for the elimination of Israel in October 2023.
  • Rupa Marya: Rupa Marya is a doctor and professor who justified Hamas terrorism, spread anti-Semitism and promoted hatred of Israel.

WHITEWASHED HAMAS TERRORIST WAR CRIMES

  • Rebecca Lopez: Rebecca Lopez is a professor who whitewashed Hamas terrorist war crimes, trivialized the Holocaust and spread hatred of Israel in a November 2023 class
  • Rebecca Zapien: Rebecca Zapien is a professor who whitewashed Hamas terrorist war crimes, trivialized the Holocaust and spread hatred of Israel in a November 2023 class.

GLORIFIED TERRORISTS

  • Russell Rickford: Russell Rickford praised Hamas war crimes, glorified terrorists, demonized Israel, defended violent protesters and endorsed anti-Israel agitators. He is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
  • Samer Alatout: Samer Alatout expressed support for Hamas terrorists and spread anti-Semitism. He demonized Israel on Twitter, and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

BLAMED ISRAEL FOR HAMAS TERRORIST WAR

  • Noura Erakat: Noura Erakat is a professor and activist who blamed Israel for Hamas war crimes against Israeli civilians in 2023 and has shown support for other terrorists, including honoring leaders of multiple FTOs as listed by the United States government.
  • Brooke Lober: Brooke Lober is a university lecturer who blamed Israel for Hamas terrorist war crimes and showed support for Hamas in a November 2023 city council meeting.
  • Omer Bartov: Omer Bartov is a Brown University professor who blamed Israel for Hamas terrorist war crimes and engaged in anti-Israel activism in 2023.
  • Marc Lamont Hill: Marc Lamont Hill blamed Israel for Hamas war crimes against Israelis civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheading of babies and kidnapping of the elderly, carried out on October 7, 2023.
  • Nasser Rabbat: Nasser Rabbat promoted anti-Semitism, celebrated Hamas terrorism and spread hatred of Israel in late 2023 during Israel’s war against the Hamas terror group.
  • Natalie Melas: Natalie Melas defended a pro-Hamas professor, showed support for violent protesters and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
  • Robert Vitalis: Robert Vitalis promoted the Hamas terror group’s military wing on social media in October 2023, following a series of Hamas terror attacks and war crimes that left over 1,400 Israelis dead and 200 kidnapped, as well as thousands wounded.
  • Sima Shakhsari: Sima Shakhsari has expressed support for terrorists, endorsed anti-Israel agitators and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

EXPRESSED SUPPORT FOR THE HAMAS TERROR GROUP

  • Siraj Ahmed: Siraj Ahmed is a professor who expressed support for the Hamas terror group at a November 2023 event at the City University of New York (CUNY).
  • Michelle Zacarias: Michelle Zacarias is a university journalism instructor who expressed support for Hamas terrorist war crimes and spread an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory in late 2023.
  • Huda Fakhreddine: Huda Fakhreddine is a professor who expressed support for Hamas terrorists and spread hatred of Israel online during the first month of its war against Hamas in October 2023.
  • Mohammad Jafar Mahallati: Mohammad Jafar Mahallati was under federal investigation in late 2023 for teaching his college students to express support for Hamas terrorism.
  • Eli Friedman: Eli Friedman has expressed support for violent protesters, demonized Israel and defended United States Congresswoman Ilhan Omar after she was denounced for making anti-Semitic remarks.
  • Danny Shaw: Danny Shaw is a professor who expressed support for terrorism, spread anti-Semitism and promoted hatred of Israel during its war against Hamas terrorists in late 2023 and early 2024.
  • Krystal Strong: Krystal Strong is a professor who expressed support for terrorism, led and spoke at several rallies supporting Hamas terrorist war crimes.
  • Lara Sheehi: Lara Sheehi expressed support for terrorists, promoted hatred of Israel and Zionists, spread incitement and was accused of anti-Semitism by her Jewish students. Sheehi also promoted hatred of America and the police.
  • Khaled Abou El Fadl: Khaled Abou El Fadl is a law professor who spread anti-Semitism and anti-Israel conspiracy theories during Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists in late 2023 and early 2024.

TARGETED JEWISH STUDENTS IN CLASS

  • Ameer Loggins: Ameer Loggins justified Hamas terrorism against Israeli civilians as a lecturer at Stanford University in October 2023.
  • Renata Gangemi: Renata Gangemi is a professor who spread hatred of Israel, promoted anti-Semitism and showed support for a terrorist during Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists in 2023.
  • Bret Gustafson: Bret Gustafson is a professor who showed support for the vandalization of a Jewish leader’s home in November 2023. He also promoted hatred of Israel in the classroom.
  • Kate McCullough: Kate McCullough has defended a pro-Hamas professor, expressed support for violent protesters and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.

VIOLENT ATTACK ON JEWISH STUDENTS

  • Yannis Arab: Yannis Arab is a lecturer who participated in a violent attack on Jewish students on a college campus and yelled anti-Semitic statements at them, in November 2023.

SPREAD ANTI-SEMITISM

  • Siham Alfred: Siham Alfred is a university instructor who spread anti-Semitism at an event sponsored by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at the University of Mary Washington (UMW SJP) in November 2023.
  • Eve Troutt Powell: Eve Troutt Powell is a professor who spread anti-Semitism at an anti-Israel rally and promoted hatred of Israel.
  • Jemma Decristo: Jemma Decristo threatened to kill “zionist journalists” in the U.S. and called on targeting their houses and children as an assistant professor of American studies at the University of California, Davis in October 2023.
  • Julia Chang: Julia Haeyoon Chang dismissed anti-Semitism, defended violent protesters, demonized Israel and promoted incitement. She also endorsed anti-Israel agitators and spread hatred of the police.
  • Shira Robinson: Shira Robinson demonized Israel, defended anti-Semitism, engaged in anti-Israel activism, and is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
  • Neil Hertz: Neil Hertz is a supporter of the BDS movement, defended violent protests, demonized Israel and endorsed anti-Israel campus activism.
  • Paul Sawyer: Paul Sawyer has expressed support for violent protesters and defended a pro-Hamas professor. Sawyer is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
  • Peyrin Kao: Peyrin Kao is a college lecturer who spread hatred of Israel during an Israeli war against Hamas terrorists in November 2023, while teaching his undergraduate computer science class at the University of California, Berkeley
  • Lyra Monteiro: Lyra Monteiro has promoted hatred of Israel in college lectures. Monteiro also spread anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel during a war against Hamas terrorists in late 2023.
  • Nasrien Ibrahim: Nasrien Ibrahim is a cardiologist and professor of medicine who spread hatred of Israel during a war against Hamas terrorists in late 2023.
  • Fatemeh Shams: Fatemeh Shams [Shahrzad F. Shams] spoke at two anti-Israel rallies and spread hatred of Israel following the October 7, 2023 Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians.
  • Ahmad Almallah: Ahmad Almallah led chants expressing support for terrorism and hatred of Israel at multiple anti-Israel rallies during Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists in late 2023.
  • Andrew Ross: Andrew Ross has spread hatred of Israel in his activism, including after Israel declared war against Hamas in October 2023, following a series of Hamas terror attacks and war crimes that left over 1,400 Israelis dead, 220 kidnapped and thousands wounded.
  • Carlton E. Williams: Carlton E. Williams defended an anti-Israel agitator in court and has expressed support for terrorists. He has spread hatred of Israel and America, promoted anti-Israel agitators on social media and engaged in anti-Israel activism.
  • Afif Aqrabawi: Afif Aqrabawi is a university faculty member who spread anti-Semitism, called for Israel’s destruction and expressed hatred of Israel during a war against Hamas terrorists in 2023.
  • Diana Greenwald: Diana Barbara Greenwald is a professor who demonized Israel in the media in October 2023.
  • Eric Cheyfitz: Eric Cheyfitz has compared Israel to Nazi Germany, promoted anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, whitewashed Hamas terrorism and expressed support for violent protesters. He has also dismissed anti-Semitism, demonized Israel, spread hatred of America and engaged in anti-Israel activism.

RIPPED DOWN POSTERS OF ISRAELI HOSTAGES

  • Callen Zimmerman: Callen Zimmerman is a professor who assaulted someone filming Zimmerman rip down posters raising awareness of Israeli civilians kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in October 2023.
  • Mohammed Alghamdi: Mohammed Alghamdi is a physician and university professor who helped rip down posters raising awareness of Israeli civilians kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in October 2023.
  • Kinza Khan: Kinza Khan is a “domestic violence attorney” who helped rip down posters meant to raise awareness of Israeli civilians kidnapped by Hamas terrorists, in November 2023
  • Darren King: Darren King is a postdoc associate who ripped down dozens of posters raising awareness of Israeli civilians kidnapped by Hamas terrorists. The November 2023 incident occurred on the New York University (NYU) campus in New York, New York.
  • Bentley Wall: Bentley Wall is a professor who ripped down posters meant to raise awareness of Israeli civilians kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and held hostage in Gaza. Wall worked on the University of Chicago campus where the November 2023 incident occurred.
  • Hana Odeh: Hana Odeh is a faculty member who ripped down posters meant to raise awareness of Israeli civilians kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and held hostage in Gaza. The November 2023 incident occurred on the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Amro Fadel: Amro Fadel is a professor and businessman who ripped down posters raising awareness of Israeli civilians kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and held hostage in Gaza. The November 2023 incident occurred in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
  • Charles Gelman: Charles Gelman is a university lecturer who ripped down a poster raising awareness of Israeli civilians kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and held hostage in Gaza. The December 2023 incident reportedly occurred in New York, New York.
  • Ania Loomba: Ania Loomba spoke at an anti-Israel rally in October 2023 after the Hamas terrorist organization committed war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, on October 7, 2023.

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40 Instances of Massive Plagiarism Against Harvard’s Chief Diversity Officer

Claudine Gay was the tip of the iceberg.

DEI is a massive criminal scam.

Not Just Claudine Gay. Harvard’s Chief Diversity Officer Plagiarized and Claimed Credit for Husband’s Work, Complaint Alleges

By: Aaron Sibarium, Washington Free Beacon, January 30, 2024:

It’s not just Claudine Gay. Harvard University’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, Sherri Ann Charleston, appears to have plagiarized extensively in her academic work, lifting large portions of text without quotation marks and even taking credit for a study done by another scholar—her own husband—according to a complaint filed with the university on Monday and a Washington Free Beacon analysis.

The complaint makes 40 allegations of plagiarism that span the entirety of Charleston’s thin publication record. In her 2009 dissertation, submitted to the University of Michigan, Charleston quotes or paraphrases nearly a dozen scholars without proper attribution, the complaint alleges. And in her sole peer-reviewed journal article—coauthored with her husband, LaVar Charleston, in 2014—the couple recycle much of a 2012 study published by LaVar Charleston, the deputy vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, framing the old material as new research.

Through that sleight of hand, Sherri Ann Charleston effectively took credit for her husband’s work. The 2014 paper, which was also coauthored with Jerlando Jackson, now the dean of Michigan State University’s College of Education, and appeared in the Journal of Negro Education, has the same methods, findings, and description of survey subjects as the 2012 study, which involved interviews with black computer science students and was first published by the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education.

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Nationwide Campaign To End Legacy Admissions At Universities Gains Steam

Following the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling against race-based college admissions, a bipartisan movement against legacy admissions has been gaining steam at the state and federal level, as well.

Legacy admissions refers to letting a student into a school because their family member went to that school. Virginia introduced legislation to ban legacy admissions on Jan. 18, and legislation was introduced in November to do so in Congress, following the Supreme Court striking down race-based admissions in June.

The bill in Virginia passed the state Senate unanimously, and the federal legislation was bipartisan, authored by Indiana Republican Sen. Todd Young and Virginia Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine.

Virginia’s bill to outlaw legacy admissions in the state was introduced by Democratic Virginia state Sens. Schuyler VanValkenburg and Jeremy McPike in January. The bill aims to outlaw admissions on the basis of “familial relationship to any donor” to a university.

“No public institution of higher education shall provide any manner of preferential treatment in the admissions decision to any student applicant on the basis of such student’s legacy status or such student’s familial relationship to any donor to such institution,” the bill reads.

Kaine and Young’s bill also plans to outlaw legacy admissions, but at the federal level.

“Legacy admissions restrict opportunities for many bright and talented young Americans and provide unmerited advantage to the most connected individuals in our society. Our bill will end legacy preferences in the admissions process and promote upward mobility for Americans of all backgrounds.” Young said in a November press release announcing the bill.

“A student’s acceptance into a college should not hinge on whether their parents attended that school or donated a large sum of money,” Kaine said in the press release.

Approxiametely 56% of the top 250 colleges in the U.S. used legacy admissions in the enrollment process, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The Connecticut legislature’s education committee also plans to look into legacy admissions during this upcoming session, according to The Connecticut Mirror.

Connecticut state Rep. Gregory Haddad, who serves as a co-chair on the Connecticut Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee, said he believes that the fall of race-based admissions will result in less minorities going to college.

“Prior to the Supreme Court decision, Black and Hispanic high school students already faced challenges that made it much less likely for them to go to college, and to take away from colleges and universities the best tool they had to sort of mitigate that difference, will only make it harder,” Haddad told the Mirror. “So, legacy admissions is one thing that we will do.”

While Haddad and others have argued that legacy admissions disproportionately benefit wealthy, white applicants, experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation the practice probably doesn’t violate civil rights laws like so-called affirmative action does.

Application data for the 2023-2024 school year showed that minority applications to college increased by 15% since 2022, according to Common App.

“Title VI of the Civil Rights Act forbids race discrimination. If schools are using legacy preferences to shut out students based on race, yes, they are violating Title VI. I doubt many do use them that way; I think most are being genuine when they say it’s about fundraising or building community. But the Education Department would have to look at each institution’s use closely to know for sure,” Alison Somin, a legal fellow for Pacific Legal Foundation, a public interest law firm, told the DCNF.

Another legal expert, GianCarlo Canaparo, senior legal fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, said that states could enact laws to ban legacy admissions.

“States are free to pass laws to regulate state schools and can probably force private schools in their borders to give up legacy admissions,” Canaparo told the DCNF.

But he said it’s unlikely that legacy admissions violate any Civil Rights laws or the Equal Protection clause of the Constitution.

“Equal protection applies to what the Supreme Court has called ‘protected classes’: race, sex, religion, national origin. A legacy preference doesn’t fit in any of those groups,” Canaparo continued.

Nicole Pearson, a practicing lawyer in California, agreed that legacy admissions probably don’t violate any Civil Rights laws.

“I can’t imagine how legacy admissions would violate civil rights,” Pearson told the DCNF.

Harvard University has expressed concern that eliminating legacy admissions would decrease “support” and “engagement” on campus, according to a 2018 report.

“Although alumni support Harvard for many reasons, the committee is concerned that eliminating any consideration of whether an applicant’s parent attended Harvard or Radcliffe would diminish this vital sense of engagement and support,” the report reads.

The Biden administration opened an investigation into legacy admissions at Harvard in July 2023 after the Supreme Court ruled against race-based admissions in June 2023. Wesleyan University voluntarily ended legacy admissions in July 2023, as well as the University of Minnesota.

VanValkenburg, McPike and Haddad did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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Student Group Files Emergency Petition With Supreme Court Over West Point Race-Based Admissions

Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) filed an emergency petition with the Supreme Court Friday asking that the justices halt West Point’s race-based admissions policy as the lawsuit continues through the lower courts.

SFFA sued the military academy in September 2023, arguing that West Point’s admission policies are discriminatory based on race and violate the Fifth Amendment after winning a similar case at the Supreme Court in June. The student group asked the Supreme Court to prevent the academy from using race as a metric in admissions while the lawsuit goes through an appeals process in a lower court.

“By January 31, this Court should enjoin respondents from considering the fact of an applicant’s race as a factor in admissions decisions, pending final disposition of the appeal by the Second Circuit,” the petition reads.

On Jan. 3, a lower court refused to grant a preliminary injunction requested by SFFA due to the case being “unlikely to succeed on the merits,” according to the petition.

“So it declared SFFA unlikely to succeed on the merits—not because West Point’s use of race was likely constitutional, but because the court lacked a ‘full factual record.’ The court did not explain what specific facts prevented it from making a prediction about the likely merits at the preliminary injunction stage. And it did not explain why, even accepting West Point’s facts as true and crediting its stated interests, SFFA wouldn’t prevail on narrow tailoring,” the petition reads.

SFFA President Edward Blum said in a prepared statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation that he hoped that the Supreme Court would “forbid” West Point’s race-based admissions policy.

“It is our hope that the Supreme Court will forbid West Point from using racial classifications and preferences in their admissions process for their incoming class going forward from today. These practices are antithetical to our nation’s military institutions and mission,” Blum said.

SFFA won a landmark case against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina in June 2023 after the Supreme Court ruled that race-based admissions “violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.” Even after the court’s decision, President Joe Biden’s administration urged colleges to continue to use race in the admissions process.

Following the decision, multiple schools have begun purging and restructuring their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) departments and some state legislatures have pushed bills ban DEI in higher education.

West Point did not immediately respond to the DCNF’s request for comment.

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FRANK RICCI: How The Teachers Unions Embed Socialism Into Their Contracts

From Boston to Los Angeles, teachers’ unions and their progressive counterparts have quietly devised an unprecedented method to bypass the legislative process by embedding unrelated policy issues deep within the intricate terms of teacher contracts.

This new, covert strategy, hidden in plain sight, allows state and municipal officials to create sweeping policy changes that evade the scrutiny typically associated with customary legislative procedures, which include publicly available draft legislation, committee hearings, amendments and comprehensive floor debates.

In Boston, teachers’ union president Jessica Tang announced they secured “an unprecedented $50 million to commence bolstering the affordable housing that Boston students and families require.” Similarly, Los Angeles teachers incorporated “housing justice provisions” into their contracts.

Whatever the merits of affordable housing, it’s quite a stretch to argue that the issue is relevant to the matters properly encompassed within a teachers’ contract.

Yet the Boston contract is being utilized as a template by the AFL-CIO to advance housing and environmental “justice.” During the recent Connecticut AFL-CIO biennial convention, during a panel on Labor-Community Partnerships, the President of the New Haven Federation of Teachers stated on film, “Engage in negotiations and address the issues our community cares about, as it’s a win-win situation, and this is how we sustain those relationships and continue to advance our collective agenda.”

Collective bargaining agreements, which can range from dozens to hundreds of pages in length, encompass virtually all aspects of compensation such as wages, working hours, and conditions, in addition to medical and retirement benefits. These agreements are often intentionally drafted in vague terms laden with industry jargon, and require knowledge of local bargaining history for proper interpretation.

Although these agreements are negotiated in the name of taxpayers, in practice, the taxpayers are frequently overlooked in the process. Contracts do receive a vote from a legislative body, but it is typically a binary, up-or-down choice for the elected officials. There’s no open, deliberative process to review individual contract provisions or offer amendments.

Public sector unions have long used their significant political influence to draw attention to social issues that far extend beyond the scope of their work in the public sector, but this strategy takes that advocacy to an entirely new level. A growing trend sees them transitioning from vocal proponents of socialist reforms to using labor agreements negotiated in dimly light backrooms to impose their agenda on an often unwilling public.

This pernicious tactic will be used by unions and unscrupulous state and municipal negotiators to enact a laundry list of far-left social programs that could never win support through the democratic process. It conveniently provides cover for government officials eager to evade political accountability.

By creating an omnibus policy package within a collective bargaining agreement, the political class is able to silence any dissenting views and distract from the merits of reasonable objections. It’s far easier to claim that anyone who votes against the collective bargaining agreement is anti-teacher or anti-worker than to defend expensive (and potentially unpopular) new social programs.

Unions are telling us what they plan to do. We can no longer afford to ignore this reality.

Municipal negotiations, teacher unions and their progressive allies are leveraging the fine print of labor agreements to advance a collective agenda rooted in Marxist ideology, pushing for social programs they could never pass through the typical legislative process. Even if their intentions seem noble, bundling unrelated policy issues into teacher contracts raises concerns about transparency and accountability, and blurs the lines between union advocacy and the public’s interests.

In an era where we have witnessed a decline in student outcomes — the achievement gap has been widening, with students reading, math, science and civics scores falling — teachers’ contracts need to be focused on education.  Yet more and more attention is focused on non-education related distractions.

The union agenda of enacting radical policy change through collective bargaining must be exposed, with negotiators trained to block these proposals. What’s more, reforms are desperately needed to limit the scope of collective bargaining and bring the negotiations into the light, so that the public paying for the contracts can view the entire process. That’s our best hope for bringing the interest of the taxpayers and the well-being of the workforce into a sensible balance.

Frank Ricci is a Labor Fellow at Yankee Institute, Retired Union President for New Haven (CT) Fire Fighters, and Battalion Chief. He was the lead plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case Ricci v. DeStefano and has testified before Congress. Frank is the Author of book Command Presence.

The views and opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author and do not reflect the official position of the Daily Caller News Foundation.

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CHAPTER 3: Birdman and the Reality Revolution—Space Is No Longer the Final Frontier—Reality Is

Globalism is a replacement ideology that seeks to reorder the world into one singular, planetary Unistate, ruled by the globalist elite themselves. The globalist war on nation-states cannot succeed without collapsing the United States of America. The long-term strategic attack plan moves America incrementally from constitutional republic to socialism to globalism to feudalism. The tactical attack plan uses psychological, informational, asymmetric warfare to destabilize Americans and drive society out of objective reality into the madness of subjective reality. The primary target of the globalist predators is America’s children. 


The ability to distinguish between fact and fantasy is an essential survival skill. If a man believes he can fly and jumps off a twenty-story ledge, he falls to his death because gravity is a fact, an objective truth. Birdman’s fantasy, a subjective reality, cannot compete with the objective reality of gravity.

Let’s break down the process of thinking and doing. Thinking is a private matter and human beings are free to think their thoughts at any time in any place. Birdman is free to think he can fly, without consequence to himself or others. It is the moment he steps off the ledge that his subjective reality collides with objective reality.

Adults and children are evaluated differently in society. The fantasies of children are an accepted part of the growth process. In a sane society, adults who are out of touch with reality are deemed insane. In our example, Birdman would be considered insane.

Civil society and the laws that govern it are based on the acceptance of objective reality by its citizens. What would happen if there was a movement that deliberately rejected the teaching of objective reality and taught subjective reality instead? What would be the purpose of driving a society insane?

Remember, the ability to distinguish between fact and fantasy is a survival skill, because thought precedes action. Birdman thought he could fly and jumped to his death. Critical thinking is the objective analysis of facts in order to form a judgment, and is the foundation of rational thought.

Feelings, on the other hand, are the foundation of beliefs. Birdman’s feeling that he is a bird that can fly cannot compete with the fact that he is a human being who cannot. Critical thinking, based on facts, is necessary in an adult society.

An insistence upon objective reality is what made America great, powerful, and undefeatable in World War II. At the end of the war, America’s enemies did not go quietly into the night. They reconstituted themselves to fight another day, in another way.

America’s enemies simply put down their guns, picked up their books, and concentrated on the future. They studied the human mind and decided to exploit the existence of the unconscious to defeat America psychologically. The strategic goal was to infantilize Americans. Children’s psychological growth would be paralyzed with educational indoctrination that interrupts their developing critical-thinking skills. Adults would be pressured out of the adult world of objective reality and regressed back into the childish world of feelings.

Vladimir Lenin infamously said, “Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”

The leftists have taken a page out of Lenin’s communist playbook and indoctrinated two generations of Americans toward collectivism using public/private education, along with mainstream media including television programming and movies. The radical leftist/Marxist War on America is a sinister effort to shatter objective reality and destroy critical-thinking skills. When critical thinking is destroyed and a society is reduced to childish emotional thinking, that society is easily exploited.

In order to stop the radical leftists/Marxists, we need a Reality Revolution. This Revolution would restore objective reality by dismantling the infrastructure of subjective reality that has been established since the end of World War II.

In objective reality, the striving to become an adult, with all its attendant responsibilities, is rewarded with the freedom of adulthood. Children are not free in any society—they are dependent upon their parents/caretakers or the government. The choice between the collectivism offered by socialism/communism, and the individualism offered by the constitutional republic envisioned by our Founding Fathers, is the choice between childhood dependence and adult independence. It is the difference between servitude and freedom.

What young people in America need to understand is that the promise of socialism is never the reality of socialism. Cradle-to-grave government care exacts an exorbitant price. When you accept the powerless position of childhood for the rest of your life, the government happily appropriates your freedom and liberty. In socialism/communism you become a permanent ward of the state.

Americans who proudly wear Che Guevara T-shirts display their ignorance. Real people living in actual communist countries risk their lives escaping TO the real freedom of America. No one is trying to escape FROM Miami to Havana. The romanticized version of socialism/communism propagandizing American students is subjective reality.

These young people need to consider the reality of collectivism, but they must be in objective reality in order to do so. Otherwise, like Birdman, they will think they can fly. The death of Birdman is the metaphorical death of freedom.

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No More Divisive Diversity, Equity, Inclusion ‘Identity Politics’ in Florida’s Colleges

This should apply to all LGBTQ+ Pride proclamations in schools as well.

Florida’s State Board of Education passes rule to ‘permanently prohibit’ DEI at public colleges

Department of Education says decision will ‘ensure that taxpayer funds can no longer be used to promote DEI’

By: Scott Sutton

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida’s State Board of Education announced Wednesday they have implemented “strict regulations” to limit the use of public funds for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs, activities and policies at the 28 state college campuses.

The board said the rule prohibits Florida College System institutions from using state or federal funds to administer programs that “categorize individuals based on race or sex for the purpose of differential or preferential treatment.”

In a statement from the Florida Department of Education (FDOE), the board said the decision will ensure that taxpayer funds can no longer be used to promote DEI.

In addition to the passage of the new rule, the State Board of Education said they also replaced the course “Principles of Sociology” with a course in American History.

“The aim is to provide students with an accurate and factual account of the nation’s past, rather than exposing them to radical woke ideologies, which had become commonplace in the now replaced course,” the FDOE said in a statement.

Targeting DEI has been a key talking point of Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s education department during his second term in office.

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How U.S. Public Schools Teach Jew-Hatred

Government schools are a grave threat to our national security, our national character and fundamental principle of individual rights.

The left has taken the long march into our institutions and destroyed them in the cause of hatred and tyranny.

How U.S. Public Schools Teach Antisemitism

From pre-K lessons on ‘ethnic noses’ to lectures on Israel as an apartheid state, students are learning that Jews are the enemy.

By Francesca Block, The Free Press, December 19, 2023:

Last fall, Siriana Abboud put a new poster on the wall outside her pre-K classroom at a public school in Midtown Manhattan that, she claimed, would teach her four- and five-year-old students about the human body.

The poster showed four sketches of differently shaped noses—two small, one hooked, and another with a nose ring.

“Why do people have different noses?” a headline above the drawings asked.

Underneath, kids posted their answers:

“I think it’s because of your ancestors,” one wrote.

“Where you are from,” scribbled another, with a smiley face and a heart.

Next to these replies Abboud penned her own answer:

“I think it’s based on your ethnic identity. In art, we can often tell ethnicity from the bridge of your nose.”

One senior educator in the district, who is Jewish, told The Free Press she was “appalled” by the poster. “It’s clearly connected to the ethnic tropes of Jews having big noses. Quite frankly, it reminded me of Nazi comics. I had a visceral reaction to it. It was antisemitic.”
The poster Siriana Abboud put up in her pre-K class last year.

But Abboud, a twentysomething who teaches pre-K at PS 59, Beekman Hill International School, wasn’t punished or disciplined by the Department of Education for the poster, a source who knows Abboud told The Free Press. In fact, last December, she won the Big Apple Award, the highest distinction for a city teacher, for being a “liberation-inspired educator” who “raises societal expectations of the critical work of young children.”

Abboud, who did not respond to The Free Press for comment, posts regularly on her Instagram account, which has nearly 7,000 followers and includes a Lebanese flag in her bio, about her education mission statement: “Centering Arab narratives the way my schooling never did.” In it, she shares “collective action guides” on how to “Speak with your child about Palestine” and how to “Decolonize your teaching.”

Many of her posts use cheery pastel infographics while declaring her support for Palestine, including one message she posted two days after the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel that left 1,200 dead.

On October 9, Abboud wrote: “we stand with those still tearing down border walls,” and “we show solidarity with those still fighting to free their stolen land.”

Earlier, she had made her philosophy for educating kids clear: “Our work of decolonizing education begins in preschool. It is very much already a political practice.”

Ever since Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel, pro-Palestinian protests have swept U.S. colleges, leading to charges of Jew-hatred and a disastrous congressional hearing where three college presidents failed to offer a clear moral condemnation of rising antisemitism.

But the ideology fueling these demonstrations isn’t limited to the college campus. It now begins in public high schools and even elementary schools as early as pre-K, according to more than 30 public school teachers, administrators, and parents across four states who spoke to The Free Press.

American youths aren’t just encountering the views on TikTok; they’re learning them from teachers and, in some cases, from the mandatory public school curriculum itself. Take California, where a 10th grade history course, approved by the Santa Ana Unified School District, includes readings that call Israel an “extremist illegal Jewish settler population” and accuses the country of “ethnic cleansing.” Or the Jefferson Union High School District near San Francisco, which teaches about the “Palestinian dispossession of lands/identity/culture through Zionist settler colonialism.”

The root of these lessons stems from California’s new “Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum” (ESMC), which passed in 2021 and mandates lessons on the marginalization of black, Hispanic, Native American, and Asian American peoples, emphasizing how they are oppressed by a white oppressor, says Brandy Shufutinsky, the director of education and community engagement for the Jewish Institute of Liberal Values.

“It’s a Trojan horse to institutionalize antisemitism in California schools,” Shufutinsky said.

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Elementary School Teacher Sues Hamas Linked-CAIR

One year ago news broke that elementary school teacher Tamar Herman had taken the hijab off one of her students.

Except this was not news. It was a rumor started on social media by Olympic has-been Ibtihaj Muhammed.

This resulted in a torrent of threats against the school where Tamar Herman had taught for 20 years,

Today she is suing the South Orange-Maplewood school district, Ibtihaj Muhammad, and the Council on American Islamic Relations for defamation.

This is an important case for a number reasons.

FIRST, Just how much of this hogwash are we as a society to put up with?

Are we really to believe that Muslims have a divine right to have homicidal conniption fits over: hairs, beauty pageants, the weather, rumors?

If the hijab is that potentially dangerous then why are there not laws requiring them to assume some responsibility in making sure it does not come off? Because right now, outside of a safety pin, they do not do that, at all.

Muslims do not want to be treated like they are a potential public menace. They want to live in a pluralistic society, and mingle with other people. And so, they understand that there might be times when they are asked to take it off, or that it might accidently come off by the hands of a child, for example.

The vast majority of women in America who wear the hijab do so because they want to. And, CAIR knows this. Not long ago they were suing to prevent the state of Illinois from acting against women seen in public not wearing the head covering after they had their ID photo taken while wearing a hijab.

Wearing the hijab is a personal choice, and CAIR knows this. Here is the CAIR honcho in Maryland talking about removing her hijab after 911. And there was no discussion here about walking around “naked”.

All of the incidents listed above are not examples of Muslims spontaneously combusting, but rather individual men, or groups telling Muslims to rage. It is this type of authority that CAIR seeks to arrogate for themselves.

According to the Times article:

“Students at the elementary school were temporarily barred from going outside for gym or recess because of a concern over safety as protesters and network news cameras showed up outside.”

CAIR did nothing to calm things down.

SECONDLY, This case really should spell the end of CARI’s domestic terrorist operation in this country.

CAIR contributed nothing to this story, but incitement. And, they have done this too many times now to ignore.

Whatever good CAIR may do in society is more than offset by the amount of harm they cause on an almost daily basis now.

Good luck to Tamar Herman. We will be watching her case with interest. Something the TV media, who helped create this situation, will not do.

Teacher at Center of Hijab Uproar Sues Olympic Medalist for Defamation

After a New Jersey second-grader told her mother that her teacher had tried to pull off her hijab, the story went viral on social media.

By: NY Times

A seconds-long interaction in a New Jersey classroom unleashed a national firestorm last October as it ricocheted across social media platforms. A 7-year-old girl had come home from school upset, telling her mother that her teacher in Maplewood, N.J., had tried to pull off the hijab the girl wears as an observant Muslim.

Her mother recounted the story on Facebook, and Ibtihaj Muhammad, an Olympic medalist who fences in a hijab, immediately denounced it as abuse in an Instagram post that went viral. By the next day, Gov. Philip D. Murphy had weighed in on Twitter, and a statewide Islamic organization was calling for the teacher’s “immediate firing.”

One year later, the matter has landed in court. The family sued the school district and the teacher, Tamar Herman. And this month, the teacher filed a defamation suit in New Jersey’s Superior Court that accuses the Olympian and the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Rights and its director of causing “irreparable harm.”

Ms. Herman is also suing the school district, South Orange-Maplewood, in federal court, claiming it was complicit in what she called “relentless discriminatory treatment.”

“What started as a simple misunderstanding between plaintiff, who is Jewish, and one of her second-grade students, who is Muslim, was transformed into defendants’ complicity in a parade of outrageous, false, defamatory and antisemitic statements,” the federal lawsuit, which was filed a day before the state suit, states.

The incident roiled a community known for its liberal values, and tapped into a deep sense of anxiety among many Muslims, who make up roughly 3 percent of the state population and have faced an uptick in bias crime.

And even though many of the facts remained unclear, social media was quickly awash with angry opinions.

“The strong reaction from the local, state and national level is in large part a culmination of two decades of feeling targeted and vulnerable,” said Sahar Aziz, a Rutgers Law School professor and the author of a book about Islamophobia, “The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom.”

The teacher said in the defamation lawsuit that she “brushed” back a hooded garment that was blocking the student’s eyes, believing that the girl was wearing her typical “form-fitting” hijab underneath. She said she immediately replaced the head covering and apologized to the girl once she realized her error.

In her state lawsuit, she claims that Ms. Muhammad, the fencer, and CAIR-NJ were “motivated by a combination of greed and a fierce desire to burnish their brands as fighters against Islamophobia,” and that her reputation was so damaged that she can never be hired by another public school district.

The legal papers also cite Governor Murphy’s social media commentary, but he is not named as a defendant.

Filed on Oct. 5 in Union County Superior Court, the state suit also alleges that Ms. Herman is so afraid for her safety in the community where she taught for 20 years and also lived that she has had to permanently move out of her home.

“She’s been ostracized by her community,” said her lawyer, Erik Dykema.

Messages left for Ms. Muhammad and the agency that represents her, Wasserman, were not returned.

Selaedin Maksut, the executive director of CAIR-NJ, said he and his organization had been unaware of the defamation claim until Monday.

“We cannot yet comment on this filing, which our legal counsel must review,” CAIR-NJ said in statement. “However, we continue to strongly stand by this student, who had the clear constitutional right to cover her hair for religious reasons without physical interference or humiliation.”

The incident occurred on Oct. 6, 2021, about five weeks after classes began in the northern New Jersey school district.

Ms. Herman has said that the girl’s face was almost entirely obscured by the mask she and her classmates were at the time required to wear to slow the spread of Covid-19, and by what the lawsuits describe as a “hood.”

After realizing the girl was not wearing a hijab underneath, Ms. Herman “immediately brushed the hood back to cover all the student’s hair and apologized,” according to the state filing. “The hood never left the student’s head.”

A lawyer for the family, Robert L. Tarver, has said that the child immediately objected, and held onto the head covering.

A lawsuit the family filed in March, which cited religious discrimination, said Ms. Herman also touched the girl’s hair and “told her that her natural hair was beautiful.”

That lawsuit was dismissed last month, court records show. Mr. Tarver said Monday that the parties were “involved in settlement,” but did not elaborate.

He said he had no comment about Ms. Herman’s claim that she had been harmed.

Because the original accusation involved potential bias over a religious item worn to cover hair and maintain modesty, the district quickly referred the case to the Essex County Prosecutors Office, which led an investigation but declined to file criminal charges.

The teacher has not been permitted to return to the classroom and remains on administrative leave, according to the lawsuit. A spokeswoman for the district said she had no immediate information about the teacher’s job status or the federal lawsuit.

The interaction quickly seeped far beyond the school, Seth Boyden Elementary.

Mr. Maksut, who wrote on Twitter that “racist teachers like this cannot be trusted around our children,” appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” to discuss his organization’s demand that Ms. Herman be immediately terminated.

Ms. Muhammad is a longtime resident of Maplewood who fenced for the district’s high school team and has written a children’s book about a girl who wears a hijab. The day after the incident at Seth Boyden, Ms. Muhammad, who also has a line of fashion clothing and a Barbie doll made in her image, urged her large social media following to call and email the school.

“Imagine being a child and stripped of your clothing in front of your classmates,” she wrote. “Imagine the humiliation and trauma this experience has caused her. This is abuse.”

Over the next few weeks, the district fielded thousands of angry emails and calls. Students at the elementary school were temporarily barred from going outside for gym or recess because of a concern over safety as protesters and network news cameras showed up outside.

Facebook groups popular with parents from Maplewood and South Orange, N.J., neighboring towns about 30 miles from Manhattan that share a school district, were flooded with opinions that escalated in rancor once Ms. Herman’s Jewish faith was injected into the online discourse.

Ms. Herman, in the suits, said she had been subjected to “antisemitic vitriol and hatred.”

Her defamation lawsuit is funded by The Lawfare Project, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting the “civil and human rights of the Jewish people worldwide.”

As a public figure, Ms. Muhammad “should have known better,” Mr. Dykema said.

“And she should have done a little more homework before she started to say the things she said online,” he added.

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NYC: Students Forced to Go Remote as City Houses Migrants in Schools

Democrat rule.

NYC students forced to go remote as city houses nearly 2K migrants at their school — one mom goes off: ‘Does it feel good?’

By NY Post, Jan. 9, 2024:

Students at a Brooklyn high school were kicked out of the classroom to make room for nearly 2,000 migrants who were evacuated from a controversial tent shelter due to a monster storm closing in on the Big Apple.

The city made the move amid concerns that a massive migrant tent at Floyd Bennett Field would collapse from torrential rains and gusting winds — packing them instead into the second-floor gym at James Madison High School five miles away.

The school’s neighbors were not keen on the last-minute decision.

“This is f—ed up,” said a local resident who identified himself only as Rob. “It’s a litmus test. They are using a storm, a legitimate situation, where they are testing this out. I guarantee you they’ll be here for the entire summer.

“There’s 1,900 people getting thrown into my neighborhood, half a block from where I live and we don’t know who they are,” he said.

“They’re not vetted. A lot of them have criminal records and backgrounds and we don’t even know.”
The decision to clear the migrants out of the field came as city officials feared for the safety of the tent city at the field with heavy rains and winds gusting up to 70 mph. 10
The decision to clear the migrants out of the field came as city officials feared for the safety of the tent city at the field with heavy rains and winds gusting up to 70 mph.
Mom angry about migrants 10
One mother went off on the migrants as their bus pulled up to the school Tuesday evening. Steven Vago

One irate mom even went off on the migrants as they pulled up inside a line of school buses in the pouring rain shortly before 6 p.m.

“How do you feel? Does it feel good?” the woman, who only identified herself as Michelle, screamed at the buses.

“How does it feel that you kicked all the kids out of school tomorrow? Does it feel good? I hope you feel good. I hope you will sleep very well tonight!”

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Hire Teachers Based on Subject-Matter Expertise, Not Certification

Twenty years ago, when I was hiring teachers for the private K-12 school I founded, I knew better than to recruit certified teachers.

From my previous work as a college history professor, I know that the people least prepared to teach a subject are education majors. Requiring an embarrassingly low minimum of credit hours to be certified to teach a subject—just four courses in some states—education majors encounter the least substance and rigor, but the maximum of racialist theory and left-wing ideology in their program.

If my new school was going to succeed in teaching at the highest levels, then I would have to find subject-matter experts with a heart for teaching. That’s what we did—and what thousands of schools across this country do, because of the humiliating, yet expensive, reality of teacher licensure.

But don’t just take my word for it; the evidence is unequivocal: Traditional public schools have an abysmal education record. Not only are scores as low as ever on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, but internationally, our math scores remain poor and uncompetitive.

Much of the blame lies with teacher education programs and state certification mandates that bolster education schools’ enrollment and subject teachers to radical activist ideology.

Education schools are besieged by critical race theory and identity politics, stereotyping everyone as part of oppressor groups or oppressed groups. They prefer ethnic studies and historical studies that denigrate America or anything patriotic.

And while states have been offering alternative routes to teacher certification, the vast majority of teachers are educated and certified through university-based colleges of education. This ought to stop.

States should end requirements for prospective teachers to be certified, and instead empower schools to hire based on subject-matter expertise. At the same time, on the national level, we can take the Trump administration’s reform of college accreditation as a model.

In higher education, accreditation is a de facto federal system of regulating the quality of colleges. And it has a poor track record of quality assurance, a problem exacerbated by a cartel-like group of regional accreditors that split the country into regions and conspired not to encroach on each other’s territory. There was no competition, so accreditors began abusing their power, which included requiring leftist ideology in their standards.

The Trump administration changed all that. Suddenly, any college could choose any accreditor, and states began introducing market competition into accreditation.

The next administration could follow this model for teacher certification.

Congress should also rescind the federal charter of the National Education Association. It’s a teachers union that voted to promote critical race theory nationwide and advocated to keep schools closed during the pandemic.

The organization’s charter should be reviewed and revoked. In its place, Congress could shift that charter to one of the many private, parent-focused groups fighting to right the ship in K-12 education.

Meanwhile, in states that lack the political support to eliminate teacher certification altogether, states should recognize or charter additional private organizations to certify which teachers are ready to teach, outside of the broken system of college of education certification.

Introducing market competition in the validation of teachers will have untold benefits. Some certifiers may focus on patriotism, while others may focus on classical education or the ability to train students for the workforce, science careers, music careers, or a variety of life pursuits.

American teachers are almost as vital as parents in educating the next generation. Let’s stop facilitating anti-American activism and instead ensure we recognize the teachers who are best for America.

Originally published by The Detroit News

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Are Children Really Our Future?

As a retired teacher, I was really pleased when I read the article in the Jackson Times about how well our students are doing in the Jackson County Schools. Several schools moved up a grade. That was wonderful but did not make sense according to the statistics from US News and World Report, NAEP, or Axios that say 47% of our kids can’t read write or do simple math. According to AXIOS Florida had some of the worst ACT scores in the nation.  I started digging to find out what those letter grades actually mean.

My organization, The Florida Citizens Alliance (FLCA), has been laser focused on improving education since its inception.  We were able to help legislators recognize that using Common Core standards was a guarantee that FL students would be 2 years behind and they are. Common Core is still in Florida schools under the name of “Florida Sunshine Standards”. Just like Common Core, Florida Sunshine Standards  eliminates and/or minimizes phonics, cursive writing, logic, reason and critical thinking. It shifts the focus from facts to values. Why is dumbing down our kids be the new goal of education?

The FLAC sponsored Microschool program and the variety of Florida scholarships provide support for homeschool parents who recognize public schools have failed our children.

FACT: Homeschooled students average 30% higher than public school students. Parents, Grandparents: When was the last time you asked your child to read to you? Can they do a simple math calculation manually? Do they know how money works?

Public school literature uses SEL (Social Emotional Learning) which is nothing more than CRT (Critical Race Theory) in disguise. SEL is a bastion for learning hatred of family, G-d and country. Using the DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, Equity) approach students  learn:

  • Diversity – skin color is more important than knowledge
  • Inclusion – As long as you agree with the group you will be allowed to participate, disagree and you will be cancelled.
  • Equity – Students learn: White people are the oppressors and black and brown people are oppressed. Since that can never change it is OK for Black and Brown people to steal from or kill white people as there are no consequences for their actions. The government should own everything to make it equal. Why use contraception when you can Kill your baby? Single parent households can live off government money. Blame white people for all your troubles.

Students today are indoctrinated not educated. Schools fail on so many fronts like:

  • Failure to teach English – the language of America and business
  • Failure to teach Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, fundamental skills
  • Failure to teach the real meaning of Equality and Opportunity
  • Failure to teach personal responsibility
  • Failure to teach Individuality – freedom of thought/opinion/speech/Bill of Rights
  • Failure to teach the difference between Freedom and Communism, the purpose of America

Students who graduate under Affirmative Action programs, have lowered standards as excellence is repelled. It is more important to use the right pronoun (for a protected class of less than 3% of the population) than it is to produce a quality product. End Result: 95% of the population is being sacrificed by lowered standards. Fact: In the 1800’s America’s average IQ was around 125+ . By the 1950’s,  the average IQ was around 110. Today the average IQ is under 100 and almost half the nation is functionally illiterate. Mission Accomplished. Dumbed Down Illiterate people require less from their government. They are willing to give up liberty for a government hand out. Those that can’t cope take drugs. More than 47% of students graduate and can’t read write or do simple math, or finance. But they will know every sexual position known to humans. At the same time they do not know the difference between a man or woman. How are these schools rated A or B?

By using the statistics on NAEP.gov I discovered that out of a top score of 500, Florida scored 241. This score was on the high side for the nation but LESS THAN HALF in the real world.  When I went to school, less that half on a test was an F or FAIL. So how do schools in Florida score A’s and B’s?   Easy answer: Florida grades on a curve. This way the highest score regardless of actual value is always an A.  Using the scores for Jackson county on the US News and World report or here,  the schools scored an average 50% in reading and 33% in math.  Yet they were rated as B’s and C schools.  Yes, it is great that the schools improved but over 88% of the students graduated, can not read write or do simple math. Hw does this impact their quality of life and opportunities? How does this impact America’s future?   What life career will they have?  When was the last time you heard, “Think outside the box?” or “Be the best you can Be.” or “Actions have consequences?” Where we get the next innovator, inventor, creator? Not America!

On the Florida Citizen Alliance website you will find, ” Comparing Ranking Data (proficiencies & college-ready index) with Florida DOE school grades (see “District Grades” Excel file for county grades) The main purpose for sharing this data is to point out the obvious disconnect when you compare nationally-normed high school ranking data (reading proficiency, math proficiency and college-ready index) with the Florida DOE “report card” grades which are calculated using a FL DOE proprietary formula. This proprietary grading formula was created by and can be manipulated by the FL DOE. By grading on the low “curve”, the school grades can be made to look much better than is actually the case. So don’t take it at face value when your school claims to be an “A” school (for example). Look at the U.S. News and World Report data and see if it supports the claim. We need visibility into the TRUE academic performance of Florida schools. Moving away from the highly manipulated FL DOE proprietary grading system is a MUST if we’re to effectively judge the efficiency of Florida Schools.”

Although I do not have children in school and I no longer teach, I never stopped paying attention to our schools. Striving for mediocrity breeds mediocre people in a mediocre country. America was designed for Americans to strive for excellence. So what can parents, grandparents and members of the community do? Here ae some suggestions:

First Action:  and foremost, get your students out of public indoctrination clinics masquerading as public schools.  Florida has many wonderful scholarships; check them out. Join a Microschool, a co-op or a private school that focuses on the 3R’s.  Yes, sports are important but if your child can’t read the play book…  Can you mentor a student?

Second Action: Check out the authors of the texts and supplemental materials students read.  Many authors are foreign and focus on social values not facts. We are the taxpayers, in Florida we have the right to review texts. Example: why are we paying for supplemental learning materials like CASEL.org whose goal is to advance SEL when the goal should be to teach the students to read?

Third Action: Go to school board meetings and voice your opinion. Be prepared with facts and never let the public-school board forget who is paying the bills. Be polite but never forget, you are the ones paying the bills. The purpose of school is to teach skill sets for life not indoctrinate children into a life dependent upon the government. Our students must learn what it means to be an American. They must learn English, civics, history, facts and “One Nation Under G-d”.

Fourth Action: Check your media center. Are there porn books for underage children?  That is not censorship, that is good parenting. Check out the porn report compiled by volunteers throughout Florida on GoFlCa.org.

Fifth Action: Most important, get involved. Can you share with 5 people and tell them to share with 5 people and so on?  If you believe as I do that children are our future, let’s stop the destructive path they are on.  Is America worth saving?  It is up to us.

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Critical Thinking Is THE Answer

Let’s start the New Year by reviewing America’s Number One problem. Although it affects EVERYTHING — it is rarely discussed!

Literally every day we are bombarded by non-sensical words and actions by many of our representatives, our government agencies, the news media, organizations, businesses, celebrities, etc., as well as family and friends! Is it possible that all these people have the same disease? YES, it’s not only possible, it was 100% predictable.

They all have Adult Critical Thinking Deficiency (ACTD), which is infectious (then known as groupthink). So far the FDA, CDC, AMA, Dr. Fauci, Pfizer, etc. have not promoted a vaccine. As with many medical issues, the optimal solution is not to get it in the first place. This can be easily accomplished in the K-12 education system.

Properly teaching Critical Thinking in K-12, is the single, most impactful societal change that needs to be made. Other than having a reasonable proficiency in the Three Rs, assuring that High School graduates have the ability to do (and interest in) Critical Thinking is the most consequential part of the education process — yet despite a lot of assurances and platitudes, it is NOT being done!

“Education is not the Learning of Facts, but Training of the Mind to Think” is really about Critical Thinking, and it comes from Einstein, not me.

Critical Thinking is a skill set, not something that can be learned and perfected by osmosis. It’s like cooking — with the proper training anyone can be a good cook.

Yet the same state education departments that have special Social Emotional Learning (SEL) emphasis, training for teachers, and weekly SEL classes for students, have nothing remotely similar for the FAR more important Critical Thinking! By and large, the claim that “we are teaching your children how to be critical thinkers” is arguably the biggest con ever inflicted on the American public…

Just some of the numerous personal benefits that K-12 students could profit from by being properly taught Critical Thinking are:

  1. Critical Thinking students would absorb all of the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) stated objectives — but without the downsides of how SEL is normally taught!,
  2. Critical Thinking students would make more informed personal medical decisions,
  3. Critical Thinking students are more motivated across the board,
  4. Critical Thinking students are more creative (which is a superpower),
  5. Critical Thinking students are more independent (a key part of maturity),
  6. Critical Thinking students have better interpersonal relationships,
  7. Critical Thinking minorities would have a more level playing field,
  8. graduates who went on to college would be less susceptible to propaganda,
  9. economically deprived graduates would have the tools to succeed financially,
  10. all graduates could easily adapt to rapidly changing employment situations,
  11. graduates would more effectively manage their financial resources,
  12. graduates would be much better at managing their time,
  13. graduates would be much better at maintaining their health,
  14. graduates would more likely choose a superior spiritual path,
  15. graduates would be much better at picking a compatible spouse,
  16. graduates would be more effective at parenting their children (per a private communication with parenting guru, John Rosemond),
  17. graduates would make more informed voting choices,
  18. 18) graduates would be more actively participating citizens and be less likely to have their rights and freedoms extracted by government over-reach,
  19. 19) graduates would be less susceptible to being tricked by AI perversions or scams by bad actors,
  20. 20) graduates would be happier (e.g., as they have more control over their lives),

Etc.

Additionally, there would be numerous societal benefits from having more Critical Thinking citizens. For example, Critical Thinking has been called “the basis for science and democracy.” Other examples are:

  1. more meaningful and productive citizen discussions of societal issues,
  2. more cooperation on national issues like energy policy, etc,
  3. less societal discord and confrontation,
  4. more competent and responsible representatives would be elected,
  5. a much better chance of America maintaining its position of leadership,

Etc.

All-in-all, the personal and societal benefits are unparalleled!

Critical Thinking is the Most Powerful, Least Expensive, Widest Impact solution to an extraordinary collection of personal and societal issues — with NO DOWNSIDE!

Some have given up on the public school system, for understandable reasons. One of common refrains is: “There are too many problems to fix.” However, astounding improvements can be made to our K-12 system by just properly addressing ONE thing: Critical Thinking.

Another huge benefit is that this is essentially a no-financial-cost solution. Existing K-12 school resources and priorities simply need to be redirected and modified. It can (and should) start immediately.

All that’s needed is a commitment (from educators, legislators, parents, citizens, etc.) to focus on this one phenomenally powerful solution.

What’s stopping us — other than us?

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