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<\/a>JB Brager. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n
JB Brager, who taught history at Fieldston, was fired Thursday. The termination comes after Brager, who is Jewish, posted multiple tweets disparaging Zionism amid a controversy over anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism at the school.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cECFS does not comment on personnel matters,\u201d the school said in a statement to JTA Thursday evening. \u201cWe can reaffirm, however, that the school does not tolerate hurtful, offensive, or exclusionary content or comments from any member of the community. Students, parents, employees and other members of our community all face consequences for misbehavior of this nature.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nJTA reached out to Brager via email and their website for comment, but did not immediately hear back.<\/span><\/p>\nThe controversy began in November when a speaker at the school, Kayum Ahmed, a lecturer at Columbia University Law School and a director at the Open Society Foundations, said that the Holocaust and Israel are examples of \u201cvictims becoming perpetrators,\u201d according to a video obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Tablet magazine reported that parents were \u201cshaken and outraged\u201d by the remark.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cXenophobic attacks are a shameful part of South African history, but in some ways it reflects the fluidity between those who are victims becoming perpetrators,\u201d Ahmed said. \u201cI use the same example in talking about the Holocaust. That Jews who suffered in the Holocaust and established the State of Israel today\u2014they perpetuate violences against Palestinians that are unthinkable. So again, the victims of the Holocaust and the violence have become the perpetrators of injustice against the Palestinians.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nAccording to Tablet and the Washington Free Beacon, sometime following Ahmed\u2019s remarks, Brager tweeted, \u201cI refuse to \u2018reaffirm the value\u2019 of ethno-nationalist settler colonialism.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nOn December 17, the principal of Fieldston\u2019s upper school, Nigel Furlonge, wrote in an email obtained by JTA that the school had \u201cengaged in a meaningful internal dialogue about what the experiences have been, both historically and currently, for Jewish faculty and students at ECFS.\u201d He announced that on January 9, two rabbis of large New York City Reform congregations, Ammiel Hirsch from Stephen Wise Free Synagogue and Joshua Davidson from Temple Emanu-El, would address a school assembly.<\/span><\/p>\nFollowing Furlonge\u2019s announcement, Brager tweeted, \u201cfor a school assembly on anti-Semitism, SURE GO AHEAD and invite two white men who run Reform congregations, both of whom are Zionists, one that wrote that the \u2018most insidious strain [of American anti-Semitism] is that of anti-Zionist intersectionality [on the far-left].\u2019\u201d Brager ended the tweet with three angry-face emojis. JTA has obtained a screenshot of the tweet.<\/span><\/p>\nBrager was quoting in their tweet a modified sentence from an op-ed by Davidson in The Jewish Week.<\/span><\/p>\nHirsch and Davison spoke at the school on Thursday. In his speech, Hirsch defended Zionism and challenged the arguments of anti-Zionists.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cUnderstand what they mean when they say they are not anti-Jewish, just anti-Zionist,\u201d Hirsch said, regarding anti-Zionist activists. \u201cThey mean that, from their perspective, justice requires extinguishing the one and only Jewish state \u2014 the size of New Jersey \u2014 in favor of a 23rd state of the Arab world that collectively has a greater land mass than the entire United States.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\nSource<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You only have to voice anti-Zionist opinions to put your job on the line now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200887,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200883\/revisions\/200887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}