US feds investigating NYC schools for alleged antisemitic discrimination

The US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights announces an investigation into New York City’s public schools for antisemitic discrimination.

The investigation will probe whether the New York City Department of Education violated federal civil rights law by discriminating against Jewish students.

The investigation centers on a group called NYC Educators for Palestine that has organized seminars about “Palestine, Zionism and Resistance,” the federal office says.

The seminars teach children from the age of 5 about “Palestinian resistance,” that “Zionists” are “genocidal white supremacists,” and to support Hamas and its “martyrs,” the statement says.

“No child should be taught by his or her teachers to hate their peers. Neither should Jewish children be taught that being Jewish somehow makes them inherently guilty or proponents of hate and violence,” Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey says in a statement.