The trickle-down effect: Antisemitism seeps into California's K-12 schools [View all]

Throughout California and other states, we are seeing a wave of antisemitism directed at children in kindergarten through 12th grade similar to the one that has overwhelmed college campuses since Oct. 7.

After the day that Hamas massacred, tortured and kidnapped Israeli civilians, including babies and young children, the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and other Jewish groups began receiving scores of calls from parents, especially from the Bay Area, alarmed by what their children were experiencing.

They’ve told us about:

• Second-graders being directed to write “stop bombing babies” on sticky notes and placing them on the door of their elementary school’s only Jewish teacher.

• Teachers encouraging middle school and high school students to walk out during the school day to “march for Gaza” without notice to parents or any of the usual safety protocols.

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