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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't condone Hamas' actions.  Israel, however, is an apartheid state.  This also started because Israel tried to evict Palestinians during Ramadan from homes they'd lived in for generations.  Israel is entitled to defend itself, but leveling huge building with no regard to the loss of civilian life is unconscionable.  Hamas is a terrorist organization and Israel violates international human rights laws with impunity.  Hamas being bad doesn't absolve Israel of its own atrocities.  In this country, any criticism of Israel is viewed as antisemetic.  This is largely why Israel continues to do things like evicting Palestinian from their homes, building settlements, and doing other things that make a two state solution difficult to achieve.  This doesn't serve Israelis or Palestinians well.[/quote]

Did you read the letter? This isn’t about the Israeli Palestinian conflict. It’s about FCPS’ failure to address antisemitism.[/quote]

Did YOU read the letter?  ZOA made it about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by wanting FCPS to punish Abrar for her personal statements about Israels' actions against Palestinians.  This is an excerpts from the letter:

Parents contacted the ZOA after FCPS failed to rebuke and punish a school board member, Abrar Omeish, for using her school board position for personal and partisan gain, in violation of FCPS’s Code of Conduct.  In May – as Israel defended its people from the thousands of rockets being launched from Gaza into Israel by the U.S.-designated terrorist group Hamas, whose charter calls for the murder of Jews and Israel’s destruction – Ms. Omeish used her official position to condemn and make false and inflammatory accusations against Israel.

On her Facebook and Twitter pages – both of which trumpet her position on the school board and prominently bear the school board’s logo – Ms. Omeish falsely accused Israel of “desecrating the Holy Land,” “apartheid,” and “colonization.”  She also accused Israel of killing Palestinians, omitting the important fact that Israel was acting defensively, as any country would if it were being bombarded by deadly rockets launched by a terrorist group deliberately targeting innocent civilians.  Ms. Omeish’s social media posts incited others to express their Jew- and Israel-hatred on social media, dividing and harming the community she is obligated to protect.  Yet Ms. Omeish refused to remove her social media posts and district officials refused to condemn and punish her.

What I wrote is completely relevant to what the letter addressed.  Why should FCPS punish Omeish for her personal statements about the actions of the Israeli government?  And why can ZOA state their onesided position but I'm can't shed like on what likely prompted Abrar's statements?[/quote]

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