Jewish families decry 'rampant' antisemitism by California school district in lawsuit

A radical of families successful California person filed a suit against Sequoia Union High School District (SUHSD), accusing them of failing to support Jewish students from "rampant" antisemitism, favoritism and harassment by some peers and module members. 

"Antisemitism is connected the emergence and someway becoming culturally acceptable," Sam Kasle, a dada who filed the suit, told "Fox & Friends First" big Carley Shimkus. 

Kasle recounted an incidental successful which his girl was taught what helium describes arsenic "propaganda" by a teacher wearing "Free Palestine" apparel.

Parents of Jewish students are accusing Sequoia Union High School District successful Redwood, Calif., of failing to code increasing antisemitism by students and staff.

In a vocabulary matching test, students were instructed to specify "Palestine" arsenic a state that was formally recognized by the United Nations successful 1947, Kasle said. He besides claimed the aforesaid people included a explanation of "Hamas" arsenic a "a governmental enactment continuing the combat against Israel."

"When she brought this up to the teacher… helium belittled her, made an illustration of her," Kasle alleged.

The lawsuit points to respective incidents similar the 1 described by Kasle, which began soon aft the Oct. 7, 2023 panic onslaught successful Israel that killed implicit 1,200 radical and triggered a larger struggle with Hamas. Since the outbreak of the war, thousands of Palestinians person died, and protests and demonstrations person dispersed crossed assemblage campuses nationwide.

The suit besides alleges that SUHSD officials and teachers distributed antisemitic materials, made oregon tolerated anti-Jewish jokes and slurs, and adjacent advised Jewish students to conceal their spiritual identities to debar harassment. 

It besides alleges a swastika was etched onto the pavement of the Woodside High School’s campus. When territory authorities were alerted, they reportedly dismissed the awesome arsenic "spiritual symbol[s] from Japanese Buddhism" alternatively than acting against the offender.

This rise successful antisemitism is not isolated to the district, with a caller study by the civilian rights radical StopAntisemitism showing 72% of Jewish assemblage students successful the U.S. consciousness "unwelcome" connected their campuses, and much than fractional person been victims of antisemitic incidents.

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Kasle, on with different parents, expressed vexation implicit the district’s deficiency of response.

"The medication fundamentally circled the wagons implicit the past year," helium said. "And careless of their ceremonial processes, they truly didn’t assistance a finger. Their fig 1 work is not to support themselves oregon the teachers, but to support the children."

The Sequoia Union High School District did not respond to a petition for comment, Shimkus noted.

EdSource reported that the territory had not yet been served with the lawsuit.