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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This article is badly written and hard to follow. 
Is information on this incident detailed anywhere else?[/quote]

Agreed. I think the general timeline is:

There is a teacher (Meshel) who was one of the faculty sponsors of the Muslim Student Alliance.

Some students who belong to the MSA but not acting in the MSA's name organized a walk-out. Senior MCPS officials were in attendance, as was Meshel.

Meshel reported hearing two students making antisemitic comments, but none of the other MCPS officials heard them and no one has delivered video proof despite essentially every kid filming the event.

Technically, the principal was meant to file a Hate and Bias form upon Meshel's report, but she called the students into her office instead. After determining that everyone (including the Asst. Superintendent) denied hearing/making antisemitic remarks, she did not file that form.

Meshel took her story to the Daily Wire.

My opinion: The "proof" of antisemitism that the Daily Wire claims to have is very weak. It's thinks like student members of the MSA organizing the walk-out but then saying the MSA wasn't sponsoring it. Both things can be true.

Essentially, TDW has it out for MCPS, and this was a convenient "shock" story, but there just seem to be a lot of substance.

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I generally agree with this but let's be real here. Of course the kids are going to deny making those remarks and most likely their friends in classmates would back them up . [/quote]

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