‘No Zionists’ and ‘No Straights’: Tweets From Teacher Rattle Elite New York City School

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Is it any wonder anti-Semitic attacks proliferate across New York City. Or that millennials, exposed to left-wing inculcation and indoctrination, are so dumb and dangerous, hateful and bigoted? #Homeschool

‘No Zionists’ and ‘No Straights’: Tweets From Teacher Rattle Elite New York City School

By: Adam Kredo, WFB January 9, 2020:

As anti-Semitic attacks proliferate across New York City, the social media postings of one outspoken teacher at an elite Bronx private school are raising fresh concerns among Jewish parents and students.

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“Making latkes tonight for my birthday and channukah [sic], text me if you want to come over, no Zionists,” J.B. Brager, a history teacher at the prestigious Ethical Culture Fieldston School, tweeted on Dec. 20.

That posting and others singling out straight individuals for criticism and portraying Israel as a genocidal aggressor in its conflict with the Palestinians have caught the attention of Fieldston students and parents, particularly given that Brager is slated to teach an elective history course titled “Nazi Germany and the Holocaust” later this month.

The Ethical Culture Fieldston School, founded by progressive Jews in the late 19th century, has grappled with accusations of anti-Semitism in recent years. Among other issues, the school organizes students into ethnic and racial “affinity groups” starting in the third grade but has firmly refused to establish a Jewish affinity group, a Fieldston parent told the Washington Free Beacon. That has contributed to a perception among parents that administrators at the avowedly progressive school do not consider Jews a minority worthy of recognition, understanding, or protection.

The school’s treatment of Jewish issues has come under increasing scrutiny as a wave of anti-Semitic attacks have set New Yorkers on edge. On Wednesday, congressmen Josh Gottheimer (D., N.J.) and Max Rose (D., N.Y.) condemned recent remarks delivered at a Fieldston assembly, where a guest speaker argued that Holocaust survivors living in Israel are guilty of perpetrating similar atrocities against Palestinians. The comments by A. Kayum Ahmed, a top officer at George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, drew condemnation from the Anti-Defamation League and left many in the community concerned about the school’s direction.

“There should be no place in our national discourse for hate-filled speech targeting any group,” Gottheimer and Rose wrote in a letter to Fieldston’s head of school and principal. “As Jewish Members of Congress dedicated to combatting anti-Semitism, we would like to understand how such a speaker could be invited to address ECFS students, what steps the school has taken to hold those responsible accountable, how the school has communicated to students and parents that such rhetoric is unacceptable, and how ECFS will implement processes to prevent future incidents.”

In the wake of the assembly, Brager, who identifies as Jewish, defended Ahmed’s remarks in a series of tweets, writing, “I refuse to ‘reaffirm the value’ of ethno-nationalist settler colonialism.” After the school sent a letter to students and parents calling Ahmed’s remarks “deeply hurtful,” Brager tweeted, apparently in reference to the letter, “I have never been more disappointed in my employer than I am today and have never been closer to quitting.”

Abraham Cooper, the associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, told the Free Beacon that Brager’s rhetoric is particularly troublesome for a teacher of history.

“The big lie is ‘Israel apartheid’, ‘Israel Nazi.’ However a person reaches that world view, even if they’re Jewish, that is extremely dangerous to the Jewish people,” Cooper said. “The school has to do something, and if they don’t, the parents may vote with their feet. You don’t have to put up with that crap. Not in America and not when all the leaders here say they’re serious about fighting anti-Semitism.”

Fieldston and Brager did not respond to repeated requests for comment. Brager’s Twitter account was locked after the Free Beacon began seeking comment.

Brager, who uses the pronoun “they,” graduated from the University of Maryland in 2010 with a degree in American Studies, according to a C.V. posted online. Brager received a Ph.D. in women’s and gender studies from Rutgers University in 2018.

Brager began as a teacher at Fieldston last year and has maintained an active social media presence on both Instagram and Twitter. Parents and students speaking to the Free Beacon on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal by school administrators, particularly as it relates to the cutthroat college admission process, said Brager’s provocations on social media had become a subject of intense interest in the community.

In addition to “Nazi Germany and the Holocaust,” Brager has taught a required high school course on U.S. history before 1940, a subject on which Brager has also been outspoken. “It’s still Native American Heritage month, because oh wait, America is a violent fiction and its ‘founders’ were genocidal criminals,” Brager tweeted in November.

Parents who spoke with the Free Beacon expressed concern that the school itself has not placed any boundaries on what sort of public speech is appropriate for teachers, particularly given that the vast majority of high school students now have access to social media. Others said the sort of public remarks Brager has made about Jews and Israel would not be tolerated about any other minority group.

In addition to publicly supporting organizations that promote boycotts of Jewish-made goods, Brager has expressed opposition to President Donald Trump’s recent executive order intended to combat anti-Semitism as well as a hostility toward straight people.

“This is deeply anti-Semitic and really scary on multiple levels that I’m having trouble processing right now,” Brager tweeted in response to the order, which was widely praised by the mainstream Jewish community and organizations established to combat hatred.

In October, Brager posted a photograph of a service dog with a caption that expressed hostility to straight people, writing, “No touch no talk no straights,” and adding an accompanying hashtag, “#idonotwanttoseeorbeseenbystraightpeople.”

 

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Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
4 years ago

what exactly did the perve mean by “come” over?

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

Who knows – stay clear of them.
Notice there appears to be NO OBJECTION to the PRO LBGTQ+ agenda.
The focus has to EXPAND beyond antisemitism.
The LBGTQ+ agenda is also DESTROYING OUR COUNTRY!

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago
Reply to  Halal Bacon

TOO funny!

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Geesh, now I get it… I’m a bit slow today…..

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

I hope SOCIAL LIBERALS are finally satisfied that all this DEFENDING and ADVOCATING LBGTQ+ has produced this unified ANTI HETEROSEXUAL force.
LBGTQ+ want you to believe that being a heterosexual is ABNORMAL. Homosexuals are ANTI HETEROSEXUAL. They prefer SAME SEX.

You NEVER see an LBGTQ+ person objecting to this. They are “integrating” LGBTQ+ throughout the entire Common Core curriculum. Yes, it will be in math, science English, literature, music and especially health class. Students will be totally immersed in fantasy propaganda. This is being put in place in NJ and California..

Pat yourselves on the back, straight SOCIAL LIBERALS!
If you think YOUR state won’t get this. Think again! You have allot of GOP Governors that do not respect the will of the people and simply REBRANDED failed Common Core to appease you. The establishment WANTS this for YOUR child. Look ow many GOP GOvernors WANT refugees where the people do NOT want them. It’s not jsut the DEMS who want to destroy our country.

LGBTQ+ visibility in the K-12 curriculum
Laura Moorhead
September 24, 2018
https://kappanonline.org/moorhead-lgbtq-visibility-k-12-curriculum/

william carr
william carr
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Nobody will ever convince me that homosexuality is normal or that there are more than two genders. They are aberrations. A brief examination of evolution show us that. Homosexuality is obviously a dead end. I know some people including elected representatives do not believe in evolution, but that is a problem for them and those who elected them. At its simplest the common cold and influenza show evolution works.

Mark Goldberg
Mark Goldberg
4 years ago

Imagine how many other teachers are so ‘educated’ as ‘they’ has been, and what they’re teaching. And she is employed at an ‘elite’ private school in NYC. This is not merely about anti-semitism, or hurtful remarks- this is about
teachers being hired to peddle vastly falsified history and opinions with no ability of students to argue back or learn history that hasn’t been turned leftist and tyrannical. The protests against anti-semitism, are not enough. It is the subversion of the history of the US, and the world and the dunce who calls herself a ‘they’ is just the tip of the iceberg.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Mark Goldberg

Since Muslims and LBGTQ+ are all for Palestine… you have to wonder how they are teaching WW2 history, HItler and antisemitism…..

DemocracyRules
DemocracyRules
4 years ago

Logic FAIL
‘No Zionists’ + ‘No Straights’ = No Muslims
– because Islam rejects homosexuality
– therefore all devout Muslims are ‘straights’
———————————–
straight n.
11. Heterosexual. – online dictionary

Jay Wizzy
Jay Wizzy
4 years ago

Left-wing this left wing that. & what you stand for?
Making a cult-leader out of your Guru Trump who arms Saudi Arabia (where Africans are enslaved) with a missile defense system & sells military jets to Turkey.

Worsethanitlooks
Worsethanitlooks
4 years ago

The fact that Fieldston would expose their students to a teacher with such severe emotional and psychological disorders tells you everything you need to know about this school and the feckless reckless parents who permit this.

Yet more evidence that Leftists never let anything get in the way of their ideology and indoctrination objectives.

VTS
VTS
4 years ago

She is calling for violation of Civil Rights on a basis of religion and sexual orientation.

MAS
MAS
4 years ago

“The Ethical Culture Fieldston School, founded by progressive (me; aka Marxist) Jews”

“Well there’s yer problem” Adam Savage

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  MAS

Socially progressive Jews are being used to advance the LBGTQ+ agenda.
How do you get through to these SOCIAL LIBERAL JEWS that also take pride in being Jewish? Why the highlighting of SELECTIVE anitsemitism?

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Social liberals and Jewish social liberals don’t see that LBGTQ+ hates Jews, PRO Palestine as well as being ANTI God. Why is THAT being ignored?

Chicago LGBT Pride Parade Bans Gay Jews From Marching With Jewish Pride Flag
Chicago Pride Parade 2016

Organizers of the LGBT Pride parade in Chicago Saturday banned Jewish marchers from participating in the event if they carried Jewish Pride flags (a rainbow flag adorned with the Star of David), The Windy City Times reported.

https://dailycaller.com/2017/06/25/chicago-lgbt-pride-parade-bans-gay-jews-from-marching-with-jewish-pride-flag/

Photos: Chicago Dyke March Drew Hundreds To Rally In Little Village Saturday, Amid Accusations Of Anti-Semitism
By Rachel Cromidas in Arts & Entertainment on Jun 25, 2017 4:19PM

The Windy City Times looked for a response from a Dyke March collective member who claimed the Jewish pride women were asked to leave the parade because their flags “made people feel unsafe,” and the march was “anti-Zionist” and “pro-Palestinian.”

https://dailycaller.com/2017/06/25/chicago-lgbt-pride-parade-bans-gay-jews-from-marching-with-jewish-pride-flag/

Lesbian March in D.C. Bans ‘Nationalist Symbols,’ Including Israeli Flag
June 9, 2019 Associate Editor

The Israeli flag represents “settler colonial government, a lot of violence against Palestinians, a lot of things that I don’t want at this march,” organizer Yael Horowitz told AFP.

“There are so many other ways that we can represent our Jewishness, we just have to make that choice to be in solidarity with Palestine,” said the 24-year-old who “proudly” wears a Star of David around her neck.

Jewish groups condemned the ban, saying it smacked of anti-Semitism and sowed division within the gay community.

“Banning the Star of David in their parade is anti-Semitic, plain and simple,” said Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.

Meanwhile the American Jewish Committee asked on Twitter, “How is the (DC Dyke March) inclusive when it excludes Israeli or Jewish Pride flags?”

https://www.libertyheadlines.com/washington-dyke-march-israeli-flag/

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
4 years ago

Anti-Semites and Anti-Normals overlap? Who knew?

Next someone will tell us the planet is round …

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

I think it is downright EVIL to push LBGTQ+ on little kids throughout their curriculmn. Even that doesn’t bother social liberals. Then again, neither does abortion…..It’s positively sickening. Yet they will see themselves as pious protectors of others. LOL! They are protecting pure evil and advancing it.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Yes, it’s child abuse. And that doesn’t even get to the whole thing. Most of the agenda is lies.

you and yours have a great weekend, again, felix!

Rick Gouveia
Rick Gouveia
4 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

Imagine if a straight white male teacher tweeted, “Party at my house tonight, but no Muslims and no gays allowed.” Most likely the teacher would be fired the next day.

abinc
abinc
4 years ago
Reply to  Rick Gouveia

Where? I wanna go.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
4 years ago
Reply to  Rick Gouveia

If he was lucky … arrested for ‘grooming’ and all of his students would be harassed and doxxed until they testified against him for sexual assault …

you and yours have a great weekend Rick!

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Fall in line social liberals! Muslim Ilhan Omar supports LBGTQ+. (LOL) As DUMB as she is, she understands LBGTQ+ destroys our moral fabric and she is all for destroying the U.S. and pushing her Muslim agenda. Notice the rainbow ribbon on her shirt. This was no random appearance. WAKE UP! Kitman and Taqiyya is being used with LBGTQ+.
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Andrew
Andrew
4 years ago

NYC has been a street crime extravaganza since John Lindsey’s Fun City in 1966, with many tens of thousands of innocent people victimized. The elites and their media platforms, electronic and print, have always belittled any attempts at restoring public safety in NYC. Crime stats are self serving lies by the cops and courts.

MitchHill
MitchHill
4 years ago

Feel sorry for the kids getting their education from this school, and more sorry for the parents who are paying for it

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  MitchHill

I don’t feel bad for them.
They are the PARENTS and should know what is going on.
It’s the responsibility of the parent to do this.
I feel sorry for the kids.

MitchHill
MitchHill
4 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Yup that’s true. Most of the parents are likely in the same lane as the teachers, except for a few outliers. They are for the the most part manhattenite obamamites

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago
Reply to  MitchHill

I dont’ know… I think some are too busy with their lives to think beyond themselves. I am sure there are parents out there you describe too!

dba_ unruly_ vagabond_trader
dba_ unruly_ vagabond_trader
4 years ago
Reply to  MitchHill

Did you notice it was mentioned that parents are concerned with their kids getting into elite universities. So apparently they’ll put up with any revisionist Jew hate to make the grade. No sympathy here.

Mark Goldberg
Mark Goldberg
4 years ago

Just a thought as to ‘correctness’. If a teacher had tweeted that no ‘gays’ and or no ‘muslim’ visit her, him, they- do you think there would have been an uproarious outcry againt, they, them, he she, it?? You bet there would and a firing most likely and rather promptly. And this bean bag of a teacher should be fired but not before the entirety of her, they, them, thar whomever, whatever, whichever, nimbrod taught, teachers all this utopian oppressor oppressed model of ugly bigotry. Yeah… they she it whatever, is a two bit hate freak.

caliroxanne
caliroxanne
4 years ago

So sad that so many of these progressive Jews fail to realize that the agenda they promote only furthers the hatred of Jews. By the time they realize it, it will be too late. My only hope is that if and when Jews must seek safety in Israel, that Israel will reject these nasty self-hating, useful idiot Jews and force them to reap what they’ve sown.

lostlegends
lostlegends
4 years ago

I am shocked, shocked to learn Jewish parents send their kids to this school. They are so self-destructive and mindless. “Lord, what fools these mortals be.” Shakespeare.

Jamfer Jones
Jamfer Jones
4 years ago

I thought a free country was about freedom of choice not freedom to make everybody the same? Parochial schools are that way because they discriminate and that is their reason to exist because they are selective. Trying to jam every cross section of people into one box will never work without total anarchy.

stephen5970
stephen5970
4 years ago

When will we see graduates of a “Men’s and Gender Studies” program? Always “Women’s and Gender Studies” programs. How throughly sexist!

Brager, or “they”, definitely displays severe narcissism, intolerance and social problems. Definitely needs to speak with a good psychiatrist. Also, she should apply for a job somewhere else; almost quitting means its a matter of time. Quit before the school needs to look for a last minute replacement.

One big question: Why hasn’t she been quickly shown the door? Antisemitism should not be tolerated, even if it comes from a Jew-in-name-only antisemite. Hatred of an identifiable sexual group, in this case straight men and women, means that straight students will probably be discriminated against, or at the minimum cause concerns that they will be unjustly graded. Any perception of a possible conflict of interest, such as sexism, usually results in dismissal. So why is “they” still employed there?

dba_ unruly_ vagabond_trader
dba_ unruly_ vagabond_trader
4 years ago

What imperial schitthole did “their” family arrive from? Since America has been such a horrid place, why not go back there?

tedlv
tedlv
4 years ago

TLTR! Thousands of words don’t relay a message! Brevity is a good thing.

John Acord
John Acord
4 years ago

A weird school employing weird teachers to instruct the children of even weirder parents. Why complain? The students are getting the exact indoctrination their parents paid for. Maybe the students should sue their parents for sending them to such a weird and abusive school.?

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