{"id":279964,"date":"2026-06-27T17:31:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279964\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T17:31:21","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:31:21","slug":"un-high-school-students-kicked-out-for-drawing-swastikas-in-yearbooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/279964\/","title":{"rendered":"UN High School students kicked out for drawing swastikas in yearbooks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The elite private school affiliated with the UN<\/a> that caught eighth-grade students scrawling swastikas and other hate imagery into yearbooks last week has kicked out a handful of the offenders, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

The United Nations International School sent an email to all parents on Thursday after it concluded its \u201cthorough and deliberate\u201d investigation into the \u201cyearbook incident\u201d that it had said affected more than 30 yearbooks and\u00a0potentially involved as many as 15 kids.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll students found to have participated in this incident have been held accountable,\u201d wrote head of school Dan Brenner in a letter sent to parents Thursday. <\/p>\n

\"GeneralHate speech was discovered in multiple yearbooks at the United Nations International School, which just wrapped its \u201cthorough and deliberate\u201d investigation. Leonardo Munoz for NY Post<\/p>\n

\u201cEach case was viewed individually with a range of imposed consequences, including students not returning to our community. All the students involved and their families have been informed in individual meetings.\u201d<\/p>\n

The yearbook flap \u201cstands in direct opposition to our mission to educate young people to make the world a better place and to foster understanding, respect, empathy, and global citizenship,\u201d Brenner added in the letter. \u201cAccountability is not separate from that mission; it is part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

UNIS spokesperson Lupe Todd-Medina refused to say how many kids were booted, but told The Post that disciplinary action also included counseling and probation for the \u201cfewer than 15 kids involved.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Jewish dad at UNIS told The Post that \u201cthis needed to be done.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pre-K to 12 school \u201cmade the correct move \u2014 they became educators again.\u00a0 It\u2019s the first step towards change to kick a few kids out. I would do the same,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

But a Manhattan private school consultant told The Post the \u201cinvestigation\u201d is a sham. \u201cThe school doesn\u2019t care. They don\u2019t care because antisemitism is bad \u2013\u2013and that\u2019s the problem. They only care because they got caught.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"AnThe United Nations International School in Turtle Bay sent a letter to parents Thursday announcing it\u2019s kicking out some students who were caught scrawling hateful imagery in the yearbook. Obtained by the New York Post<\/p>\n

It\u2019s become \u201cthe laziest private school in the city,\u201d said the expert of the elite school that caters mostly to diplomats\u2019 kids. \u201cIt goes down a little bit every year.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kids of UN workers. All they want to do is get through this school and go to the Sorbonne.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Turtle Bay school was in the news in February when a longtime Jewish teacher filed a discrimination suit<\/a> alleging administrators ignored her complaints of Jew hatred and retaliated against her for speaking out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The elite private school affiliated with the UN that caught eighth-grade students scrawling swastikas and other hate imagery…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[10685,6975,11182,75,57,9,24,55,54,56,2585,2271,58],"class_list":["post-279964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-hate-crimes","tag-hate-speech","tag-high-schools","tag-manhattan","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-students","tag-united-nations","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279964","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=279964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}