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Anti-Israel NYC teacher confronted by antisemitism watchdog over viral social media posts
NEW YORK CITY (TND) — Watchdog group Accuracy in Media (AIM) confronted a New York City teacher last week who reportedly expressed anti-Israel sentiments amid the Jewish state’s war with Hamas terrorists.
In a video of the encounter, AIM President Adam Guillette confronts Gotham Tech High School teacher Mohammad Jehad Ahmad, whose views went viral in October. The teacher posted on X at the time that NYC Schools Chancellor David Banks is a “white supremacist” who “normalizes genocide” after Banks condemned Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, the New York Post reported.
Ahmad also reportedly accused Banks of distributing “Zionist propaganda” through the condemnation, as well as noted it is “not enough to support Palestine,” encouraging others to be “anti-so-called ‘Israel.'”
“If you hate Jews so much, why do you live in the city that has the most Jews of any city in the world outside of Israel?” Guillette asked Ahmad in video of the interaction posted last week.
Ahmad argued Guillette was “breaking laws” by asking such questions in the presence of his child. He then took hold of Guillette’s microphone.