[ April 10, 2026 ]
Round one: The West 1, Islamists 0
Ex-principal of Arabic Khalil Gibran school loses round in court NY Daily News
A federal judge Wednesday shot down a last-minute attempt by the former
principal of a Brooklyn Arabic-language school to keep the city from selecting
her successor.ADVERTISEMENTDebbie Almontaser, the short-lived head of the new Khalil Gibran
International Academy, wanted the judge to delay the selection and order someone
other than Schools Chancellor Joel Klein to oversee the process.
The nerve! Read that again.
Almontaser, who was forced to resign after a published report tried to link
her to a militant Islamic group, re-applied for the job in October, but was not
among the four finalists.In August, a story in the New York Post suggested Almontaser sided with a
Muslim girls’ group distributing T-shirts that read "Intifada NYC."In tearful testimony this week, Almontaser said she was trying to make a
teaching point about the meaning of intifadeh when she explained to the reporter
that its root translation was "shaking off oppression."ADVERTISEMENT"She didn’t talk about T-shirts," said Almontaser’s lawyer, Alan Levine.
"She was asked the definition of intifadeh."
Almontaser’s lawyers will ask a federal appeals court to overturn Judge
Sidney Stein’s decision.The city said it will not resume the selection process until at least
tomorrow, to give the appeals court time to hear the matter.
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