(Jewish Group) Anti-Semitism is creeping back into our schools: What should we do about it?
(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP! RESPECT!!)
In the wake of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in October, anti-Semitism is being manifested in new ways with disturbing permutations from the halls of Congress to the hallways of our public schools.
Perhaps nowhere has this been more evident than in our schools. In just the past few months there have been a number of disturbing incidents across the country involving students making Heil Hitler salutes and sharing photos of homemade swastikas on social media. Its even sparked a controversy at the prestigious Sidwell Friends School, when swastikas unexpectedly appeared in an interactive presentation during a student-led assembly. And these come in the wake of the now infamous incident in Baraboo, Wisconsin, last November, when a shocking photo surfaced of at least 60 high school boys making Nazi salutes on the steps of a local courthouse before their high school junior prom. Baraboo should have served as a stark warning to students considering similar behavior.
But just in the past few weeks incidents involving anti-Semitic imagery and words are once again roiling privileged communities on both coasts. In California, a group of Orange County teenagers at a house party posted a photo of a swastika made of red plastic cups on Snapchat. Before the night was out, a dozen or so teenagers had crowded around the display to pose for photos, their arms raised in the stiff-armed Nazi salute.
Meanwhile in Long Island, New York, two seniors in the Levittown Schools allegedly posted onto a social media page set up by members of the senior class an image of the districts website containing an anti-Semitic message.
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