A Jewish high school teacher in Queens was terrorized by a mob of left-wing students who reacted with outrage after she attended a pro-Israel rally last weekend, a terrifying incident that left her badly shaken.
The target of the “radicalized” kids was forced to hide for over two hours in a locked office as the halls at Hillcrest High School were taken over by hundreds of young people incensed over her posting of support for the Jewish democracy to her Facebook page.
The students chanted slogans and waved Palestinian flags in what was described as a pre-planned protest demanding the teacher’s firing with video of the harrowing display of anti-Semitism being posted to social media.
The scene at Hillcrest High School in Queens as a Jewish teacher hid in her locked office for hours while students demanded she be fired for attending a pro-Israel rally. pic.twitter.com/jzVCEofvJS
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“The teacher was seen holding a sign of Israel, like supporting it,” one unnamed senior told the New York Post of the teacher’s Facebook post in which she displayed a poster reading “I stand with Israel.”
“A bunch of kids decided to make a group chat, expose her, talk about it, and then talk about starting a riot,” the student said.
A student told the outlet, “Everyone was yelling ‘Free Palestine!’”
“POV: your school had 1 lockdown multiple fights and riot just bc of a hoe who supports Zionism and occupation, read the caption on a video posted to TikTok that also featured the controversial slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” that has been widely interpreted as a call for the genocide of Israeli Jews.
(Screenshot: TikTok)
The focus of the anti-Jewish hate mob commented on the ugliness at the school in a statement.
“I have been a teacher for 23 years in the New York City public school system — for the last seven at Hillcrest High School. I have worked hard to be supportive of our entire student body and an advocate for our community, and was shaken to my core by the calls to violence against me that occurred online and outside my classroom last week,” she said, according to the New York Post.
“No one should ever feel unsafe at school — students and teachers alike,” the teacher added.
Around 25 NYPD officers were dispatched to Hillcrest High according to principal Scott Milczewski with the administrators going into a “soft lockdown” for the emergency situation. The teacher was safely escorted out of the building by police.
“There are 2,500 students,” he said. “Adults will always be outnumbered. I think that’s something we have to understand. And that’s why we’re asking you to speak to your children. We need your support with this.”
“Whether it was one student or multiple students who did or said something, whatever the trigger was, something happened. And I know from my many years on the City Council that the counterterrorism task force is not engaged unless they believe it is potentially a serious situation,” said Democrat City Councilman James Gennaro of Queens.
“It went from a teacher just changing a photograph on her social profile to this contagion of hate being released in the halls of Hillcrest High School,” he said. “It’s a sad commentary on the rancid hate that exists within the hearts of students — for Jews.”
“It’s my hope in the days ahead we can find a way to have meaningful discussions about challenging topics with respect for each other’s diverse perspectives and shared humanity,” the targeted teacher said in the statement. “Unless we can learn to see each other as people we will never be able to create a safe learning community.”
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