Seattle under fire: AIM revisits public school teacher for defending Hamas, demands accountability
August 30, 2024
Accuracy in Media is returning to Seattle to shame both Ian Golash and Seattle Public Schools. Golash for his hateful, vile views on Israel and Hamas, and the school district for refusing, so far, to fire him for them.
AIM, with a mobile billboard, will be at both Chief Sealth International High School and at the district office of Seattle Public Schools. As we’ve learned with these recent antisemitic attitudes, publicly exposing these people is the only way to make them change their ways.
We’ve reported before on Golash:
“‘Hamas didn’t behead anyone. Hamas didn’t rape anyone. The bodies found charred beyond recognition were made that way either by Israeli tanks, misses, or helicopter gunships… Hamas soldiers were not carrying weapons that could do that kind of damage to human bodies,’ the post notes.
As a reaction to the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, that’s really bad – even Hamas themselves insisted they did it. So, we went to see Golash. Doorstepped him in journalistic slang:
Guillette (AIM President Adam Guillette) asked the teacher, who was surrounded by his students, whether he believed that the murder of the women at a music festival was justified.
“Yes,” Golash responded.
Justifying murder in front of your own students. Pretty bad, Hunh? The problem is that Seattle Public Schools has really done nothing about this:
But this does then lead to a proper and real question here. What is the correct punishment? Getting paid for doing no work for the rest of the semester doesn’t sound too harsh. Plenty of us would say stuff for the chance of a paid vacation after all.
That’s right, all that has happened so far is that he’s being paid not to do anything. Obviously, we all think that more than this should be done. Like, perhaps Golash should resign, or Seattle Public Schools should do something to make sure he doesn’t spread his vile views in the classroom in this coming academic year?
Our past complaints about and visits to Seattle about Golash featured in the New York Post, on local radio, on local TV. Because this is what is necessary to make something happen. Clearly neither Golash nor Seattle Public Schools are going to do anything without being shamed into it. So, keep shining that spotlight of publicity onto the continued employment of someone with such vile views. So, obviously, that the continued employment stops.
It’s only by keeping up the pressure that we can cause something to happen.