Swastikas on Lockers, Calls To ‘Kill the Jews’ Are What Pupils Face in Berkeley Public Schools, Complaint Alleges

A mother breaks down in tears while being interviewed by a reporter on what her child faces every morning.

Brandeis Center
A Palestinian flag and punching through a Star of David on display at an art class at Berkeley High School. Brandeis Center

Swastikas on lockers. Calls to “kill the Jews” and “eliminate Israel” echoing in the school hallways. A poster of a fist punching through a Star of David on a map of Israel, which one teacher calls “resistance art,” hanging in a classroom. Jewish students being asked by their non-Jewish peers to say what “their number is,” a reference to Nazi concentration camps. 

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