{"id":137932,"date":"2023-11-26T11:39:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T16:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/?p=137932"},"modified":"2023-11-27T09:50:36","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T14:50:36","slug":"high-school-students-riot-over-teachers-support-for-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/high-school-students-riot-over-teachers-support-for-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"High school students riot over teacher’s support for Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Teacher locked in an office for her safety<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

A Jewish health teacher had to go into hiding last week after “hundreds” of students at a New York City high school rioted through the hallways “chanting, jumping, shouting, and waving Palestinian flags” (pictured).<\/em><\/p>\n

The teacher, a “cracker ass bi*ch” as one video commenter referred to her, was rushed into a locked office for safety as fellow Hillcrest High School staff guarded her classroom door, the New York Post<\/em> reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Students planned the riot after seeing a photo of the 23-year veteran educator at a pro-Israel rally with an “I Stand With Israel” placard.<\/p>\n

A Hillcrest senior said \u201cThe teacher was seen holding a sign of Israel, like supporting it [so] a bunch of kids decided to make a group chat, expose her, talk about it, and then talk about starting a riot.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NYPD, which sent two dozen officers to the school, also thought the situation serious enough that it activated its counterterrorism task force.<\/p>\n

MORE:<\/strong> American U. protest: Faculty should \u2018connect\u2019 Palestinians\u2019 plight to their coursework<\/a><\/p>\n

From the story<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone was yelling \u2018Free Palestine!\u2019\u201d a senior said. \u201cEveryone was screaming \u2018(The teacher) needs to go!\u2019\u201d a ninth-grader said. \u201cThey want her fired.\u201d<\/p>\n

Students recorded the commotion, posting multiple videos, some set to pulsing Arabian music,\u00a0on TikTok.<\/a> \u201cWhen a protest brakes (sic) out because a teacher stands with Israel,\u201d a caption on one says. Another reads, \u201cHillcrest high school had a riot because a Health teacher was supporting Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most comments posted on the videos applauded the kids and jeered the teacher …<\/p>\n

Clips showed a water fountain ripped out in the hallway and shattered tiles in the second-floor boys\u2019 bathroom, which students admitted they vandalized. …<\/p>\n

The teacher gave a statement to The Post, which is withholding her name for her own safety.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been a teacher for 23 years in the New York City public school system \u2014 for the last seven at Hillcrest High School.\u00a0I 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNo one should ever feel unsafe at school \u2014 students and teachers alike,\u201d she added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A city councilman said the Hamas-Israel war was just a “convenient excuse” for students to act out. Another councilman said he didn’t know why so many students are “misinformed, intolerant and radicalized” as they haven’t even been taught yet about that region’s history.<\/p>\n

Three student riot organizers face the “most severe punishment” the district can mete out, a “superintendent’s suspension.”<\/p>\n

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Students at Hillcrest High in Queens, NYC rioted to intimidate a teacher who attended a pro-Israel rally. She hid in a locked office. Using the lessons from BLM riots of 2020, youth have been targeted again with political propaganda on social media.pic.twitter.com\/6Cfr4riKMq<\/a><\/p>\n

— Andy Ng\u00f4 \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f\u200d\ud83c\udf08 (@MrAndyNgo) November 27, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n