An award-winning New York City pre-kindergarten Teacher called upon parents and other teachers to use their ability to mold young minds to teach that Israel is evil.
Siriana Abboud, 29, who teaches at PS 59 in Manhattan, offers tips on talking to pre-K children about āland theft, displacement and ethnic cleansing,ā according to the New York Post.
The Post said it was told by insiders and educators that she believes āteaching can never be radical or revolutionary, so long as you deny the ongoing and violent colonization of Palestine by Zionism.ā
āJustice-informed teaching means breaking down power imbalances Iāve been given as a classroom Teacher,ā Abboud has said, and āwe arenāt teaching the truth if weāre silent on Palestine,ā according to the report.
Abboud was the 2023-24 early childhood recipient of the Big Apple Award, which gave her a seat on the Chancellorās Teacher Advisory Council to share teaching practices with others.
āWe stand against genocide. Stop letting your tax dollars support the massacre and ethnic cleansing of Palestine,ā she said in one recent post on her Instagram page, in which she also posted āZionist war crimes are brutal and well-documented.ā
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In a social media post titled āSpeaking with your child about Palestine,ā one of the āteach-insā she has on her account, Abboud wrote, āYou are welcome to ask me questions to help you unlearn the anti-Palestinian and orientalist rhetoric weāve all been taught. You are NOT welcome to attack me by falsely claiming my solidarity with Palestinians is antisemitic.ā
āI invite you to continue reading Palestinian stories and speaking with your children about Palestine, the way you do with all forms of racism and oppression,ā the preschool Teacher wrote.
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āThe violence began when the colonizers invaded Palestine,ā she wrote in another post. āIt will end when Palestine is liberated and every Palestinian has their freedom in their historic homeland.ā
Elsewhere she posted, āPalestine is a childrenās issue.ā
To Abboud, Israel is a āfascist ethnostate,ā according to the report.
In a Facebook post for her Allusio Academy, she said she had learned about āthe hidden and brutal history of rape that was used to establish the state of Israel.ā
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Some of those who work with her do not take kindly to the attempted brainwashing, the Post reported.
āThis is exactly the anti-Jewish culture that people are seeing throughout the DOE,ā one said.
āThis person is molding young childrenās minds and really indoctrinating children from a preschool age,ā the employee said.
āHer account is full of hate,ā one mother said. āI am scared of sending my kid there.ā
The Canary Mission, which documents incidents of Anti-Semitism, reported that Abboud āhas demonized Israel, spread hatred of Zionism and engaged in anti-Israel activism.ā
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
