‘All Jews Must Be Exterminated’: US Teacher Sues School After Suffering Anti-Semitic Abuse From Students

Danielle Kaminsky told US-based newspapers that students glorified Hitler and students made antisemitic remarks but school authorities did nothing to prevent those acts. (Image: X)

Swastikas on blackboard, students glorifying Hitler and chanting slogans like ‘Death To Israel’ instilled fear in the minds of history teacher Danielle Kaminsky.

Danielle Kaminsky, a teacher who teaches at a high school in New York City’s Brooklyn, allegedly received anti-semitic terror threats like swastikas, death threats, Nazi salutes and Hitler-loving comments and the school authorities did not take any concrete steps to prevent it.

According to a report by the New York Post, said at Origins High School in Sheepshead Bay, the authorities there “effectively promoted and encouraged” bigotry and antisemitism.

The 33-year-old who taught global history told the news outlet that since October 7, she has faced vicious antisemitism, including an email which said: “All Jews need to be exterminated”.

The school’s pro-Palestinian student protesters who called themselves “the Pro-Palestinian Circle” drew swastikas on Kaminsky’s blackboard during class, others left post-it notes on her door and bulletin board and around school saying “death to Israel”, the lawsuit alleges.

“I live in fear of going to work every day,” the teacher was quoted as saying.

“Throughout history, the k**es are purveyors of mass death and suffering. They will never stop until they are stopped. Kaminsky, the foul whiny Jew, has no place in America let alone a school system. Here’s hoping the Muslim students put an end to her, and that it’s both terrifying and very painful,” the email continued.

Kaminsky sued the school authorities because of antisemitism. She noted in her lawsuit that students engaged in several displays of “aggressive antisemitism” at Origins including marching through campus chanting “f–k the Jews,” and “Death to Israel!” as they waved Palestinian flags.

They also drew swastikas on school grounds and glorified German dictator Adolf Hitler, the suit alleges.

“The students conducted their campaign of hate within a New York City public school, emblazoned it in graffiti on its furniture, scribbled it on blackboards, circulated it in emails and text messages, and repeated it on papers and notes foisted on, and taunts directed at, Jewish teachers and students,” the suit charges.

Campus manager Michael Beaudry supported the teacher but he also faced backlash from the authorities for speaking out, the suit further claims.

“Students and staff deserve to be safe and respected in their school and Origins High School is no different. We will review this lawsuit,” Nathaniel Styler, Department of Education spokesman, was quoted as saying.

The lawsuit said even when students chanted slogans like ‘Death To Israel’ the authorities let them go scot-free. The lawsuit alleges that the school authorities’ attitude “only emboldened” the students to keep “directing antisemitism at Jewish teachers and students”.