One of the top private schools in the country has “devolved” into a “hotbed of Jew-hate,” parents charge.
A Jewish student who graduated from the Ethical Fieldston School in the Bronx was tormented by classmates calling him an “ethnic cleaner” and a “colonizer” and even witnessed a teacher give rabbis the middle finger at an assembly, according to his mom.
“Fieldston is a hotbed of Jew-hate and these terror-supporting students are the epitome of the ‘trigger warning’ generation,” Dr. Logan Levkoff said in an Instagram post.
In the wake of often violent anti-Israel takeovers and demonstrations at collagen campuses all over the country, the revelations about Fieldston are particularly disturbing.
Levkoff’s post came in response to a student letter that defended a classmate accused of vandalizing the school with anti-Israel graffiti and bashed Jewish parents. It claimed the parents were “intimidating” them and “suppressing” ideas not in line with “Zionist ideology.”
The students were replying to Jewish parents and alums who demanded in their own letter that the $63,000-a-year school protect their kids in light of antisemitic incidents following Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
“The Fieldston school’s terror-supporting students have responded to the Jewish community’s letter with a five-page missive,” Levkoff, a relationship expert and self-proclaimed “sex-talking Jewish hockey mom,” shared with her 15,000 followers. “So now it’s my turn.”
“They’ve been terrorizing Jewish students for years, forcing them into silence for fear that if they speak up, they’ll be called racist,” Levkoff wrote.
The controversy is the latest in a string of racial and religious incidents that have plagued the exclusive Academy in the past decade. One former Fieldston parent blamed the recent battles on a “complete failure on the part of the school to teach a fair and balanced curriculum.” The school has “made the ties that bound the community together untenable,” she added.
The insider pointed to the school’s DEI programs like so-called “affinity groups,” which divide kids by race and identity. The initiatives are headed by a five-person Department of Belonging and Social Impact team.
“They don’t bring people together; they tear them apart,” the source said, adding that it is a small group “rabble-rousing” and espousing anti-Israel and antisemitic sentiments.
“Fieldston was founded by a Jew and was supposed to be this safe haven for the Jewish community,” one private school parent lamented. “For it to devolve into what it has is totally antithetical to what the school is supposed to represent.”
A school spokesperson said Fieldston does not tolerate antisemitism and stands “against all forms of hate.”
“We remain steadfast in our commitment to ensuring all members of our community experience dignity and belonging at our school,” they said.