{"id":168990,"date":"2026-02-08T06:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/168990\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T06:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T06:55:12","slug":"teacher-fired-in-california-over-antisemitic-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/168990\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher fired in California over antisemitic video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-885791\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> teacher<\/a> was fired in San Diego, California, after uploading an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">antisemitic<\/a> video saying that \u201cIsraelis steal kidneys, livers, and eyes,\u201d N12 reported on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A former member of the San Diego Unified School District in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/antisemitism\/article-884352\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a>, the teacher, identified as Nasreen Atassi, was removed from the staff after the Jewish community pressured the authorities. \u201cThere\u2019s no chance we would allow such a person to enter classrooms,\u201d a local Israeli told N12.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to StopAntisemitism, Atassi was a special education teacher.<\/p>\n<p>In the shared video, the teacher claimed that Israel \u201cstole the protests, like they always steal from people \u2013 including body parts such as kidneys, livers, and eyes.\u201d The declaration came as a reference to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/diaspora\/article-885770\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">American Jews<\/a>&#8216; support for demonstrations by Iranians in the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">In a declaration to N12, Dr. Halevi Feldman, a board member representing House of Israel \u2013 Balboa Park, shared the information that the House&#8217;s community has a person responsible for collecting data regarding antisemitism cases. This source, who prefers to remain anonymous, documents the antisemitic acts and &#8220;passes them on to the relevant authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Feldman noted that the community&#8217;s actions were mostly responsible for getting Atassi punished. By sharing the case online, responding to posts, tagging the authorities, and sending complaints to the body employing the former teacher, the complaint against the antisemitic video ended in the firing decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Atassi was removed from the education body less than a day from the time the video was shared online, said Feldman, explaining that &#8220;additional steps were taken behind the scenes&#8221; for it to happen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He added that the House of Israel community was not surprised to encounter the video, \u201cWe\u2019re no longer shocked when we see things like this, but we absolutely do not intend to give up or remain silent, and certainly not to allow such a person to be part of San Diego\u2019s education system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teacher was fired in San Diego, California, after uploading an antisemitic video saying that \u201cIsraelis steal kidneys,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46421,3629,7,9,8,7624,51857,15,74,4568,435],"class_list":{"0":"post-168990","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-anti-israel","9":"tag-antisemitism","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-california-headlines","12":"tag-california-news","13":"tag-diaspora","14":"tag-diaspora-jews","15":"tag-education","16":"tag-san-diego","17":"tag-social-media","18":"tag-united-states"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}