A New York City public school is facing allegations of “Jewish erasure” due to a map displayed in one of its classrooms that excludes Israel from the Middle East countries, instead labeling it as “Palestine.”
The Free Press said it was given access to a photograph of this map, which was found in the art classroom of PS 261, a public elementary school located in Brooklyn. The classroom is used by Rita Lahoud to provide lessons to pre-K and elementary students as part of the “Arab Culture Arts” program, funded by Qatar Foundation International (QFI). QFI is the American arm of the Qatar Foundation, a nonprofit organization associated with the ruling family of Qatar, which has ties to the terrorist group Hamas.
Tova Plaut, an instructional coordinator for pre-K through fifth grade classrooms in New York City public schools, expressed her concern about the map, telling TFP, “It’s not just that we’re experiencing Jewish hate in NYC public schools, we’re actually experiencing Jewish erasure, and here is proof of that.”
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