The schools appear to have been careful not to refer to the event as a “protest,” describing it in their communications as a “communal prayer” and a “student-led communal Shacharit.” Their messaging about the reason for the demonstration, too, has been vague. The emails viewed by Jewish Currents do not mention Mamdani’s criticism of Israel or his condemnation of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the two major points of tension between the mayor and the Jewish establishment.
Despite the cautious tone, it is hard to read this mustering of day-school students outside Gracie Mansion as anything other than an act of protest against Mamdani, and an implicit charge that he poses a particular threat to observant Jews in the city. “It is time for us to stand up and be heard,” the email to Ramaz parents read. “It is time to show up proudly as Jews, as New Yorkers, and as Zionists.”
There is no such thing as religious education. Only secular institutions should ever be accredited.
I hate how it’s considered completely normal to send kids to catholic “school” where I’m from.
Despite the cautious tone, it is hard to read this mustering of day-school students outside Gracie Mansion as anything other than an act of protest against Mamdani, and an implicit charge that he poses a particular threat to observant Jews in the city. “It is time for us to stand up and be heard,” the email
amazing how fucking racist they are, the mask is hanging by a thread
Let me get this straight - they think Mamdani is a threat to Jews, but it’s somehow a good idea to send their own children to his house?
no, it’s entirely performative “fear”
They think Arabs are a threat yet they bring their children to settlements.
If there are any students that are made to do this against their will call it what it is fucking kidnapping
They’re just happy to have some time off from the awful classroom instruction.
In NYC it is forbidden to protest near a school or a house of worship. If a religious school goes somewhere, and the students are protesting, is not each student the victim of all the other students?
Next day in class: everybody filing hate crime reports against each other, followed shortly by Post coverage of the increasingly out of control anti semitism.
Using kids as political pawns eh?
If it’s during school hours, go after them for truancy?
school-sanctioned field trip unfortunately. could maybe get the adults on not having enough chaperones
How many of these ghouls are hoping violence will break out so they can use their own children’s suffering to further their agenda?
Zionist lives don’t matter
How could Zionists use children as cannon fodder?! They are betraying Lord Herzl’s benificent way
The fact they’re cautious about it already means they lost, Mamdani should invite other high schools to brings students over and create an “inter faith student seminar” or whatever, dare them to make fools of themselves using kids as shields, also students from ultra segregation environments tend to be extremely shy around mainstream kids
Guarantees the only person likely to misbehave is some deranged zionist adult screaming at children
Invite other high schools and just turn it into a lunch party. Offer drinks and snacks. Hang out. Chill vibes.
My partner went to a catholic school and they tried to make them do this too, in protest of gay marriage
Most of the kids who went were just doing it to get out of class
What I’ve heard is the French encourage high-school students to protest on a regular basis but for things like affordable education or better wages etc. I like the way they think
The french? Impossible they are not also protesting Islam.
I went to a Catholic school and they organized a group of students who were already planning to go to the March For Life anti-abortion bullshit in DC or wherever.
Some chud kid suggested holding a really unhinged homophobic rally during an all-school meeting and one of the priests had a hot mic and said “Jeeeesus Christ.”
They did not let him do the rally.
Every year, the catholic high school I went to would recruit kids to go to the march for "life to protest abortion in DC.
CW: Abortion
Yeah they structure those things like that on purpose. When I attended catholic school, we had to either make a small white cross to symbolize a “baby” “killed” by abortion, or write an essay explaining why we were pro-choice. Most kids made the cross because 8th graders hate writing essays, but it has the knock-on effect of making them think that they actually did it for the stated reason. Super gross.
I was the only kid in my whole grade who wrote the essay and my nickname in school was “baby-killer” for the rest of my tenure there.
That nickname is a badge of honor.
I will restore your comment but need you to do a spoiler tag and give a content warning for anti-abortion please
I need to spoiler tag that I’m anti-abortion? I’m kind of confused. (I am not anti-abortion)
CWs for abortion and anti-abortion rhetoric are in the code of conduct, they’re a very common trigger for trauma and gender dysphoria, people who have had abortions shouldn’t have to see slurs like babykiller on their feed
For example transphobic content is also CWed for things like news stories discussing incidents of transphobia so they have the choice to engage with it
K well I can’t edit the comment anymore.
You can edit it and it gets restored once moderation is notified/notices
I’m clicking “edit” in my comment history but it’s just blank now.
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Anyone else remember the Covington High School kid (Nicholas Sandmann)? He was briefly the target of a lot of anger as the face of an anti-abortion protest, and he was there as part of one of those BS Catholic school events. He wasn’t the one running the show or even particularly important to it, and he was literally a child, but he happened to be the one caught on camera.
It didn’t help that the most widely circulated pic of him smiling looked like trollface irl(almost as close as that high school kid punching that zionist looking exactly like the pepe winding up for a punch)
Remember that kid that layed out the pro ice kid in the hallway at that high-school? Wonder how he’s doing, i hope he is doing well.
Ah that’s actually who I meant I mixed up the shitty kid being pro-ICE with them being a zionist, been a while since I saw the video itself
Well let’s be real here, the venn diagram of being pro-ICE and being a zionist is a perfect circle.
i’m sure there are anti-ice zionists, ice is happening here where they have to see it. israel is over there
For real
100%, I did think of adding that
