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POLITICAL AND MEDIA ESTABLISHMENT SLANDER NEW YORK CITY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS
PROTESTING GAZA GENOCIDE

TIM AVERY
30 NOVEMBER 2023

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In an effort to defame young people opposed to Israel’s genocide in Gaza, New
York City’s political establishment and corporate media have roundly condemned a
student protest that took place last week at Hillcrest High School in Jamaica,
Queens, falsely characterizing it as an outburst of violent antisemitism.

On Monday, November 20 at around 11 a.m., hundreds of students at Hillcrest left
their classrooms and occupied the school building’s halls. The protest had been
planned via social media after students discovered a photo of one of their
teachers holding a sign saying, “I stand with Israel,” taken at a pro-Israel
rally on October 9 in Queens and posted on Facebook.

After students discovered the photo, a Hillcrest student posted on social media,
“This marks, to many who are Muslims and in support of Palestine a sign that our
own community has failed us.” It must be stressed that nearly a third of the
2,500 students at Hillcrest are Muslim.

The student’s post added, “Amid the international war crimes Israel is
committing, [our teacher] had the audacity to show her support for tyrannical
rule and the blatant ethnic cleansing of a people. … This is not only a sign of
oppression, but a sign that we are unsafe in our own educational walls.”

On Saturday, the New York Post published an article that characterized the
protest in sensationalist terms like “mob,” “mayhem” and “ran amok,” and called
it “one of the most frightening incidents of antisemitism in New York schools
and colleges since the Hamas massacre in Israel Oct. 7 sparked the Jewish
state’s war with Gaza.”


Palestinian supporters march with flags and signs as they chant in protest in
New York [AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews]

The “Hamas massacre” on October 7 was in fact a popular uprising of Gazans
against Israeli oppression, and the “Jewish state’s war with Gaza” is not so
much a war as it is a war crime—a full-scale genocide against the Palestinian
people that has killed 20,000 people, including 8,000 children, comparable only
to the crimes of the Nazis.

The Post claimed that many students “tried to barge into the teacher’s
classroom,” implying that students had barricaded the Jewish teacher into her
classroom and aimed to assault her.

But school administrators and police officers had in fact moved the teacher to a
locked office on a different floor of the building when the protest began, and
she was never in any danger.

New York’s City’s right-wing Democratic Mayor Eric Adams reposted the Post’s
article on Twitter/X with the statement, “The vile show of antisemitism at
Hillcrest High School was motivated by ignorance-fueled hatred, plain and
simple, and it will not be tolerated in any of our schools, let alone anywhere
else in our city.”




On Sunday, Republican city councilwoman Vicki Paladino, in an extended post on
Twitter/X, wrote, “Hillcrest High School must be shut down pending a full and
thorough investigation, and the administration must be held accountable.”

Dredging up an incident five days before the protest in which a handful of
students assaulted a school safety officer, Paladino made a fascistic appeal for
“order and discipline,” writing that “the administration of Hillcrest is totally
compromised.”

Prior to giving his warmongering speech promising further crackdowns on anti-war
protests under the guise of combating “antisemitism,” on Wednesday, Senate
Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (Democrat-New York) wrote in a guest essay for the
New York Times: “What happened last week at the Queens high school is an example
of crossing that threshold” from “legitimate criticism of Israeli policies” to
“something darker.”

“Walking out of school to march in support of Palestinians is completely
legitimate,” Schumer wrote. “But forcing a Jewish teacher to hide because she
had attended a rally in support of Israel is antisemitism, pure and simple.” In
his speech from the Senate floor, given hours after his Times column was
published, Schumer doubled down on his denunciations of the Hillcrest students,
accusing them of running “rampant in the hallways.”

On Tuesday, the federal Department of Education revealed that the New York City
Department of Education and Harvard University were the latest additions to a
growing list of universities and school districts that are being investigated
over alleged incidents of “antisemitism” and Islamophobia since October 7.
Presumably this is motivated by the protest at Hillcrest.

Since the October 7 uprising, imperialist governments and media pundits have
transformed “antisemitism” into a swear word to be thrown at any opponent of
Israel’s genocide in Gaza. But the slandering of high school students taking a
stand against genocide is a new low that signifies the ruling class’s growing
desperation to quell social unrest.

Certain establishment figures have made a half-hearted effort to quell the
sensationalism of the press. “To speak of every child in this school as
antisemitic is simply wrong,” Queens borough president Donovan Richards said.
Because the Department of Education had not yet addressed the genocide, he said,
“you had this powder keg waiting to explode.”

In a meeting held at Hillcrest on Monday, New York City schools chancellor David
Banks said that the “notion that these kids are radicalized” is irresponsible,
but he still condemned the protest for targeting a teacher for “expressing her
Jewish identity.” Banks also pledged to ensure the pro-Israel teacher’s safe
return to teaching at Hillcrest.

What no one is asking is: Why were hundreds of students at Hillcrest High School
moved to take action against the Gaza genocide, and why did the protest take the
form that it did? What conditions and experiences have shaped their view of the
world?




This is the experience of a high school senior at every four-year high school in
the United States:

 * Freshman year. Throughout 2020 and continuing thereafter, governments around
   the world have allowed COVID-19 to kill and disable millions of people.

 * Sophomore year. In 2021, former president of the United States Donald Trump
   launched a coup to establish a presidential dictatorship that just barely
   failed to accomplish its objectives.

 * Junior year. In 2022, the US-NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine broke
   out, risking nuclear war between the United States and Russia.

 * Senior year. In 2023, the imperialist powers openly back Israel’s genocide in
   Gaza. A World War III between nuclear-armed powers draws into view.

Under these conditions, is it any surprise that young people are disgusted with
the present social order? And, furthermore, is it any surprise that, as they are
only just becoming conscious of that disgust, that they first associate it with
their school environment and the authority figures closest to them?

School buildings are dilapidated and Mayor Adams announced nearly a half billion
dollars in cuts to the Department of Education earlier this month. The number of
homeless students in New York City public schools is now at an all-time high of
104,000. Schools are major vectors of COVID-19 transmission, but children are
forced to attend in-person learning, regardless of ongoing risks to their
health, so that their parents can go to work and profits can keep flowing to the
rich.

Everything that working class young people experience in the schools has its own
way of saying: “The people in power don’t care about you.” Young people hear
that message loud and clear, and they are beginning to respond. This is the real
significance of high school students’ widespread identification with and defense
of the people of Gaza.

The global wave of high school student protests against the genocide in Gaza has
produced immense nervousness in the ruling class. In advance of planned high
school student walkouts on November 9, Chancellor Banks warned educators to keep
their political beliefs out of the classroom in an email to school staff. Even
out-of-school political activity, he wrote, can violate city rules if it
“disrupts … the school environment.”

New York City educators defied Banks’s instructions and held a protest on
November 20 to demand that the United Federation of Teachers, the organization
that claims to represent their interests, pass a resolution calling for a
ceasefire in Gaza.

Students and young people have a tremendous opportunity to transform the
situation, but they need a perspective and program to do so. Students and youth
should turn to the international working class, which has the power to disrupt
the government’s backing of Israel’s genocide through a general strike. For high
school students, this includes in particular, their educators, many of whom are
outraged at the slaughter in Gaza but prevented from speaking out by censorship
in school districts.

To become leaders in this struggle, students and youth should study the history
of Trotskyism and take up the fight for socialism by joining the International
Youth and Students for Social Equality.


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 * Democratic Majority Leader Schumer libels anti-genocide student protesters as
   “aiders and abettors” of antisemitism
   29 November 2023
 * Australian high school students ferociously attacked for protesting Gaza
   genocide
   25 November 2023
 * US Department of Education announces probe into alleged antisemitism on
   college campuses
   17 November 2023
 * New York City educators hold rally outside UFT headquarters to demand union
   call for ceasefire in Gaza
   20 November 2023


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