The U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has opened an investigation into the New York public school system in regard to a pro-Palestine teachers’ group, the DOE announced on April 23.
The DOE’s Office of Civil Rights received complaints that NYC Educators for Palestine allegedly “teach children as young as 5 about ‘contemporary and historical Palestinian resistance,’ that Zionists are ‘genocidal white supremacists,’ and to support the federally designated terrorist organization Hamas and its ‘martyrs.’”
Complaints received by the federal civil rights office allege that “these actions in [the New York City Department of Education] teach and sow hostility and hatred toward Jewish students, potentially creating a hostile environment.”…