Berkeley Unified School District in California is at the center of a federal antisemitic bullying complaint fueled by teachers and students engaging in “severe and persistent” harassment of Jewish children, according to a federal civil rights filing.
The complaint filed Wednesday with the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights details four months of anti-Jewish harassment, including walkouts at which students allegedly yelled, “F*** the Jews,” and teachers using class time to bring attention to Hamas terrorists as “resistance” fighters.
“Following their teachers’ lead, students bully their Jewish peers and deride their physical appearance,” according to the filing from the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law. “Non-Jewish students are led by their teachers’ example to believe that they can freely denigrate their Jewish and Israeli classmates, telling them, e.g., that
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