a group called NYC Educators for Palestine<\/a> pushing anti-Israel lessons on young students that discriminate against Jewish children. <\/p>\n\u201cNo child should be taught by his or her teachers to hate their peers,\u201d said Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey.<\/p>\n
A Nov. 2025 event from NYC Educators for Palestine. Instagram\/NYC Educators for Palestine\/<\/p>\n
\u201cNeither should Jewish children be taught that being Jewish somehow makes them inherently guilty or proponents of hate and violence.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ultra-progressive group of Big Apple teachers has promoted a series of seminars focused on \u201cPalestine, Zionism and Resistance,\u201d federal officials said.<\/p>\n
The complaints received by the Trump administration outlined claims that the teachers are bashing Zionism while touting Palestinian resistance, federal education officials said.<\/p>\n
NYC Educators for Palestine held a \u201cTeach-In for Palestine\u201d on Martin Luther King Jr. Day for students as young as 6, with the city\u2019s Department of Education distancing itself from the controversial program at the time, insisting it was not a school-sanctioned event.<\/p>\n
The Tweed Courthouse, which houses the city\u2019s DOE. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n
The radical group has also encouraged teachers \u201cto take time out of the school day to discuss what is happening in Palestine,\u201d even if it\u2019s during \u201cadvisory\u201d or \u201celective\u201d periods.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe intention is to find ways to integrate teaching of Palestinian history and culture in some form this week,\u201d the May 12, 2025, post on social media read.<\/p>\n
An advertisement for a teach-in from Educators for Palestine. Instagram\/nyceducatorsforpalestine<\/p>\n
\u201cTake time this week to uplift the beautiful culture and history of a people who have remained steadfast in their fight for dignity and survival,\u201d it continued.<\/p>\n
There have been numerous instances of hostility toward Jewish and Israeli students and teachers since Hamas\u2019 deadly Oct. 7, 2023, attack on the Jewish state that led to the conflict in Gaza.<\/p>\n
The New York City DOE did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration launched an investigation into New York City\u2019s Department of Education on Thursday over allegations that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4337,19085,60,57,9,24,55,54,56,663,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-207593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-department-of-education","9":"tag-investigations","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-new-york-city-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-city-news","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-palestine","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}