Jewish parents at an elite New York
private school are outraged over what they say is growing
anti-Semitism on campus and an apathetic administration that refuses to address the issue.
Parents at the $52,993-a-year Fieldston School in New York City recently told
Tablet Magazine they've experienced a bias that has been escalating since 2015. Each of the episodes, they claim, has been downplayed or ignored by school leadership; meanwhile, much attention is devoted to similar bias incidents against students of color or groups identifying by gender or ethnicity.
Many Jewish families at Fieldston's main campus in the Riverdale neighborhood in the Bronx trace the problem back to the school's Affinity Group program, which rolled out in 2015.
The new mandatory part of the curriculum asked parents of students in third through fifth grades to tell their children they would need to select a group based on how that student defined their identity.
Over the course of a semester, parents were told students would be segregated into groups based on a single selection from a set of options: African American or Black, Asian or Pacific Islander, Latino, Multiracial, White, or "Not Sure," which consisted of "a cross-racial dialogue group"
designed to make "your child feel more comfortable," according to
Tablet.
Comment: As usual with mass shootings of this sort, reports of multiple shooters are in conflict with the official narrative of a "lone shooter." This case is no different, so far. Despite initial official reports of a single gunman, Russian media sources quoted eyewitnesses reporting up to 3 gunmen. But RT is reporting that officials are now denying reports of multiple shooters. So the situation is still confused. But live Russian-language coverage claimed that the FSB confirmed that there WERE 3 shooters, one of whom was highly trained, another who was holed up in the FSB HQ parking lot. Two of the shooters are reported dead, and special forces are reportedly planning to attack the third in the parking lot.
The identity of the shooter who was killed by the FSB has yet to be established.
RT reports: UPDATE (Dec. 20)
Reporting has been all over the place on this one. It seems the Russian authorities have settled on a single shooter. Footage emerged of his final moments:
The shooter had a Kalashnikov, and ended up injuring a total of 5 and killing 2 (one who was described as a police officer in some reports, but was apparently an FSB employee/guard, and another FSB employee who later died from his wounds). A witness says he was constantly reloading his rifle and shooting indiscriminately at the wall of nearby houses. The shooter has been identified as Evgeny Manyurov, a 39-year-old ex-security guard described as a loner and firearms enthusiast: A loner, a poor shooter, the FSB's HQ targeted despite no apparent motive, and mystery calls from English-speaking 'Arabs'.
Hmmm, it sounds like this could be yet another 'wet-op'. But the Russian authorities, like the US authorities lately with the 'random mass shootings' in Pensacola and New Jersey, have elected to 'eat them' by playing them down rather than hyping them in the media.