However, New York Schools Chancellor David Banks is minimizing the incident. Banks claimed the teacher "never in direct danger." He also added:
So many of students who were running or jumping had no idea what was even going on. They were doing what 14 or 15-year olds do. The notion … these kids are radicalized and antisemitic is the height of irresponsibility, and I for one will not accept that at all.
They consume their information through social media. And what they are seeing on a daily basis are children and young people in Palestine … being blown up.
When they all of a sudden saw this image of the teacher that says, ‘I Stand With Israel,’ the students articulated to me they took that as a message that I’m affirming whatever is happening to the Palestinian family and community. That made sense to me.
Excuses, excuses.
If the teacher was never in direct danger, then why did more than two dozen NYPD officers have to be called onto the scene?
Banks is trying to have it both ways. On the one hand, Bank tells us 'boys will be boys' and that the teens had no idea what they were doing. On the other, he tells us that the students devour social media and that their reaction to their teacher attending a pro-Israel rally "made sense" to him.
If, as Banks claims, the students are consuming their information through social media then isn't it possible the disseminators of his information are anti-Semitic and seek to spread hatred against Jews?
At the end of the day, Banks has sent the message the teacher was never in any real danger and has absolved the students at Hillcrest High School of their behavior.
All of which means, anti-Semitic violence is now tolerated at New York City high schools and it will happen again. Only next time, Jews are going to be killed and David Banks will have blood on his hands.
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