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Elite Private School in NYC is a “Hotbed” of Antisemitism

&NewLine;<p>One of the top private schools in the country has &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;devolved” into a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;hotbed of Jew-hate&comma;” parents charge&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A Jewish student who graduated from the <a>Ethical Fieldston School <&sol;a>in the Bronx was tormented by classmates calling him an &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;ethnic cleaner” and a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;colonizer” and even witnessed a teacher give rabbis the middle finger at an assembly&comma; according to his mom&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Fieldston is a hotbed of Jew-hate and these terror-supporting students are the epitome of the &OpenCurlyQuote;trigger warning’ generation&comma;” Dr&period; Logan Levkoff said in an Instagram post&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In the wake of often violent anti-Israel takeovers and demonstrations at collagen campuses all over the country&comma; the revelations about Fieldston are particularly disturbing&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>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&period; It claimed the parents were &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;intimidating” them and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;suppressing” ideas not in line with &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Zionist ideology&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The students were replying to Jewish parents and alums who demanded in their own letter that the &dollar;63&comma;000-a-year school protect their kids in light of antisemitic incidents following Hamas’ Oct&period; 7 attack on Israel&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Fieldston school’s terror-supporting students have responded to the Jewish community’s letter with a five-page missive&comma;” Levkoff&comma; a relationship expert and self-proclaimed &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;sex-talking Jewish hockey mom&comma;” shared with her 15&comma;000 followers&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;So now it’s my turn&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;They’ve been terrorizing Jewish students for years&comma; forcing them into silence for fear that if they speak up&comma; they’ll be called racist&comma;” Levkoff wrote&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The controversy is the latest in a string of racial and religious incidents that have plagued the exclusive Academy in the past decade&period; One former Fieldston parent blamed the recent battles on a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;complete failure on the part of the school to teach a fair and balanced curriculum&period;” The school has &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;made the ties that bound the community together untenable&comma;” she added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The insider pointed to the school’s DEI programs like so-called &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;affinity groups&comma;” which divide kids by race and identity&period; The initiatives are headed by a five-person Department of Belonging and Social Impact team&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;They don&&num;8217&semi;t bring people together&semi; they tear them apart&comma;&&num;8221&semi; the source said&comma; adding that it is a small group &&num;8220&semi;rabble-rousing&&num;8221&semi; and espousing anti-Israel and antisemitic sentiments&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Fieldston was founded by a Jew and was supposed to be this safe haven for the Jewish community&comma;” one private school parent lamented&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;For it to devolve into what it has is totally antithetical to what the school is supposed to represent&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>A school spokesperson said Fieldston does not tolerate antisemitism and stands &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;against all forms of hate&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We remain steadfast in our commitment to ensuring all members of our community experience dignity and belonging at our school&comma;” they said&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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