{"id":71513,"date":"2025-12-27T16:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71513\/"},"modified":"2025-12-27T16:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T16:09:14","slug":"pennsylvania-principal-axed-after-ranting-about-jew-money-in-voicemail-to-parent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/71513\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania principal axed after ranting about &#8216;Jew money&#8217; in voicemail to parent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pennsylvania principal whose antisemitic tirade about \u201cJew money\u201d was inadvertently recorded has been fired.<\/p>\n<p>Lower Gwynedd Elementary School Principal Phillip Leddy was axed Tuesday by the Wissahickon School Board.<\/p>\n<p>Leddy, 45, was returning a call from a parent when he got the dad\u2019s voicemail and left a message, but then apparently failed to end the call, <a href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/wissahickon-school-board-vote-firing-philip-leddy-lower-gwynedd-principal-accused-leaving-antisemitic-voicemail\/18308054\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Philadelphia\u2019s ABC 7 reported. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.10702703;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38030801\" width=\"653\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/philip-leddy-117888480.jpg\" alt=\"Philip Leddy.\" class=\"wp-image-38030801\"  \/>Philip Leddy was axed after allegedly leaving an antisemitic voicemail on a parent\u2019s phone. Wissahickon School District<\/p>\n<p>Leddy allegedly accused the parent of having \u201cJew money\u201d and could be heard muttering \u201cthey control the banks,\u201d according to recording, which was posted <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/stopantisemites\/status\/2002431409793736813?s=48&amp;t=b0e9KIkmksaTrSueZPGThg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">by the advocacy group StopAntisemitism. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201dThey go to Jew camp\u2026 everyone at the camp hates that family\u2026 \u201d he was also caught saying, according to the group\u2019s recording. <\/p>\n<p>Parents in the district have accused the school board of attempting to paper over their longstanding <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/25\/us-news\/hate-filled-bigot-damages-menorah-outside-nyc-food-pantry\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">issues with antisemitism<\/a> by hanging Leddy out to dry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an easy one for them because it was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/25\/media\/adl-accuses-megyn-kelly-of-using-antisemitic-trope-against-ben-shapiro-victim-blaming-bari-weiss\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">old school anti-semitism<\/a> versus more modern, like anti-Zionism antisemitism,\u201d Beth Ages, who has two kids in the district, told The Post.<\/p>\n<p>They point to a mural in Wissahickon Middle School, which depicts <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/22\/us-news\/antisemitic-activist-linda-sarsour-mamdani-mayoral-win-shows-hating-israel-can-send-you-to-city-hall\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Linda Sarsour<\/a> \u2014 who was forced to step down from the Women\u2019s March amid an antisemitism scandal and later apologized \u2014 and Japanese-American activist Yuri Kochiyama, who once praised 9\/11 mastermind Osama Bin Laden.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m glad that you are curious why I consider Osama bin Laden as one of the people that I admire. To me, he is in the category of Malcolm X, Che Guevara, Patrice Lumumba, Fidel Castro, all leaders that I admire,\u201d she said in a 2003 interview.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.75342466;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38030800\" width=\"1024\" height=\"584\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/lower-gwynedd-elementary-school-lower-117888521.jpg\" alt=\"Lower Gwynedd Elementary School in Lower Gwynedd Township, Pa.\" class=\"wp-image-38030800\"  \/>The principal allegedly ranted about \u201cJew money\u201d in the recording.  Google<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJewish families are leaving in droves,\u201d said Lynn Simon, who has two kids in the district.<\/p>\n<p>Leddy and the Wissahickon school district did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pennsylvania principal whose antisemitic tirade about \u201cJew money\u201d was inadvertently recorded has been fired. 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