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Teacher resigns from Kiryat Ono school after students held protest against her, chanting ‘Death to Arabs’
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An Arab teacher at a high school in the central town of Kiryat Ono resigned from her position after students held a protest against her outside the teacher’s lounge and chanted “Death to Arabs.”
The ordeal began after students looked up the 22-year-old teacher on Instagram and discovered that she followed accounts that “publish news from the Palestinian perspective,” the Walla news site reports.
The students proceeded to open a WhatsApp group demanding the teacher’s dismissal in which various insults were hurled against her.
At the beginning of the month, a group of them gathered outside the teacher’s lounge and shouted “Death to Arabs” and other racist chants as she passed by.
“I felt unsafe,” the teacher told Walla, speaking on condition of anonymity, and adding that students had tried to hack into the social media accounts of her and her partner.
The principal of the school subsequently sent a letter to students saying that an investigation had found no inappropriate social media content on the teacher’s accounts and that students still chose to harass the woman.
He wrote that the school had reached out to the teacher to offer its support but that the woman decided to resign nonetheless.
One student was suspended as a result of the ordeal, Walla said.
The Times of Israel Community.