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[quote=Anonymous]Thank you to whomever posted the school board video.  Grateful to hear these voices.

I'm the person who posted this originally btw.  Just the link and subject comment.  I think I may have been blocked from dcum for a day or two?  I've noticed that happen in the rare occasions I've come on here and shared anything about antisemitism.

Addressing antisemitism, and educating about it, does not deny the horrible, horrible Islamophobia out there in our country and of course even in MoCo.  I empathize with the former MCPS student who described his experiences post 9-11.  Egregious.

We need to call out these incidents and educate about them. It's an opportunity.  Do ppl realize how much of the exact thing that was reported as said, at the walkout, is *everywhere* on tiktok, has been everywhere on Arabic (not social justicey English language) Al Jazeera for years and years (yes pro Hitler stuff etc.)?  The teachers-suspended-for-expressions-of-solidarity include literally reposting the exact same kind of blood libel (i.e. weird lies that Jewish people eat blood, in this case steal organs--almost don't want to even repeat but this is literally what ppl have believed over the centuries in Europe...talk about colonial internalization of European antisemitism...despite the fact that observant Jewish people are actually prohibited from even eating an egg if there is a spot of blood on it--blood makes things not kosher).

I agree with the Palestinian speaker who said we need to talk together about these issues of hate.  We really need to strongly, strongly condemn them whenever and wherever they occur.

I don't have the emo labor in me right now to try and educate but there is a lot of education to be had around all these issues.  Please know I'm aware of the level of antisemitism out there bc i have close friends and colleagues who are aligned enough with it by virtue of their social location.  One of my best friend's family members is a major funder of a nationally-prominent Muslim politician.  This friend was one of the few ppl who called me to check in post 10/7.

I went all through very very diverse in many ways MCPS schools.  This is all not new--antisemitism and Islamophobia.  But honestly it's maybe all worse with social media.

I'm wondering at the motivations of the principal in question.  The only thing I can think of, charitably, is that she didn't want to get a student of color in trouble for verbalizing a threat.  I can understand that.  What disturbs me is what I've seen so far in the way of quick denials and minimizations of hate that needs to be admitted to, seen for what it is, and strongly condemned.  
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