{"id":2086295,"date":"2023-11-01T05:21:42","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T09:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-only-want-one-side-to-stop-fighting-meet-the-minneapolis-public-school-teacher-who-called-for-israels-eradication-at-socialist-rally\/"},"modified":"2023-11-01T05:26:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T09:26:21","slug":"we-only-want-one-side-to-stop-fighting-meet-the-minneapolis-public-school-teacher-who-called-for-israels-eradication-at-socialist-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-only-want-one-side-to-stop-fighting-meet-the-minneapolis-public-school-teacher-who-called-for-israels-eradication-at-socialist-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis teacher seeks peace, urges end to fighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwe-only-want-one-side-to-stop-fighting-meet-the-minneapolis-public-school-teacher-who-called-for-israels-eradication-at-socialist-rally%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2086295&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><blockquote>\n<h2>Meredith Aby-Keirstead celebrated Hamas &#8216;freedom fighters&#8217;\u2064 at event commemorating\u200d &#8216;past socialist revolutions&#8217;<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption>Meredith Aby-Keirstead (YouTube\/@meredithaby-keirstead1689)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>A Minneapolis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chicago-mayor-orders-teachers-back-into-classrooms-union-vows-to-call-a-strike\/\" title=\"Chicago Mayor Orders Teachers Back Into Classrooms, Union Vows To Call A Strike\">public school teacher<\/a> called for the\u200d eradication of the Jewish state during an event commemorating &#8220;past socialist revolutions,&#8221; stating \u2062that she does not support a &#8220;complete ceasefire&#8221; in Israel because she &#8220;only want[s] \u200bone side to\u2064 stop fighting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meredith Aby-Keirstead\u2014a social\u2064 studies teacher at Kennedy High School in suburban Minneapolis\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/fightbacknews.org\/articles\/frso-twin-cities-celebrates-the-chinese-revolution-with-panel-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoke<\/a> at\u2064 an Oct. 21 Freedom Road Socialist Organization panel, which\u2063 aimed to contrast &#8220;China&#8217;s \u2063socialist policies to the imperialist agenda of the United \u2062States.&#8221; During her speech, however,\u2064 Aby-Keirstead steered the \u2064conversation away from\u200b China, opting instead to praise the &#8220;wins of Palestinian freedom fighters&#8221; and advocate for terrorism against Israelis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I \u200bhear\u2062 people calling for a complete\u200d ceasefire, I think, &#8216;No, that&#8217;s\u200b not quite right,'&#8221; Aby-Keirstead said. &#8220;Because\u200d we only \u2063want one side to stop\u200c fighting.&#8221; The social studies\u2064 teacher went on to chant, &#8220;<strong>From \u200dthe river to the sea,\u200c Palestine will be free<\/strong>,&#8221; a rallying cry for the \u2063Jewish state&#8217;s destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Aby-Keirstead&#8217;s support for Hamas&#8217;s ongoing attacks \u200cagainst the Jewish state shows that American K-12 schools are \u200dnot immune from \u200bthe anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric exploding on college campuses following the terror group&#8217;s Oct. 7 assault.<\/p>\n<p>Aby-Keirstead, who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/meredith-aby-keirstead-870808196\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">worked<\/a> as a Bloomington Public Schools <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomington.k12.mn.us\/jhs\/staff-directory\/meredith-aby-keirstead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">teacher<\/a> since 1997, is \u2063an <a href=\"https:\/\/canarymission.org\/individual\/Meredith_Aby-Keirstead\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">active member<\/a> of a number of far-left activist groups, including the Freedom Road\u2064 Socialist Organization&#8217;s Twin Cities chapter and the Anti-War Committee. Last week, both the public school teacher and her 14-year-old daughter were arrested for trespassing at an <a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/kstp-news\/local-news\/pro-palestine-protesters-rally-at-rep-betty-mccollums-office\/?fbclid=IwAR102Mu4UyQBl_yQnTzmolRM6oXgGm43CpSUlFdf-Mh9p7cs9LXToV0K6es\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anti-Israel rally<\/a> held at Rep. Betty McCollum&#8217;s\u2064 (D., \u2064Minn.) office, the \u2063St. Paul Police Department confirmed. Aby-Keirstead and other rally goers said\u200d they\u2064 would not leave\u2063 until\u200d they got to &#8220;speak with the representative \u2064about her silence on the loss of Palestinian lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aby-Keirstead has also served as spokeswoman of the Anti-War Committee, a Minneapolis-based group that <a href=\"https:\/\/antiwarcommittee.org\/15c42-web-agency-gb-about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says<\/a> its &#8220;main campaign is to end U.S. aid to \u2064Israel.&#8221; \u2063In 2015, she helped the committee organize a protest that saw anti-Israel demonstrators <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/israeli-professor-shouted-down-at-university-of-minnesota\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shout down a Jewish professor<\/a> during a lecture at the University of Minnesota. &#8220;I can&#8217;t just\u2063 stand by and watch the university hire a war crimes apologist \u2062to come and speak here,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-only-want-one-side-to-stop-fighting-meet-the-minneapolis-public-school-teacher-who-called-for-israels-eradication-at-socialist-rally\/\" title=\"Minneapolis teacher seeks peace, urges end to fighting\">public school teacher told<\/a> the school&#8217;s campus newspaper at the\u2063 time.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, meanwhile, the FBI raided the homes of \u200bAby-Keirstead and other Anti-War Committee and Freedom Road Socialist Organization activists as part of a terrorism investigation. The\u200d committee <a href=\"https:\/\/antiwarcommittee.org\/15c42-web-agency-gb-about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">refused to cooperate<\/a> with the investigation,\u2063 and \u200cthe FBI\u2063 went on to rescind subpoenas issued to Aby-Keirstead and other\u2062 committee members. Aby-Keirstead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2010\/10\/raid-o14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> the World Wide Socialist Website that investigators were seeking her testimony about meetings she held &#8220;with activists in Colombia and Palestine,&#8221;\u2064 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/horrifying-details-emerge-from-charges-against-top-cnn-producer-accused-of-child-sex-crimes\/\" title=\"Horrifying Details Emerge From Charges Against Top CNN Producer Accused Of Child Sex Crimes\">unsealed court documents<\/a> later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2014\/02\/27\/minneapolis-documents-shed-light-on-mysterious-fbi-raids-in-2010\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alleged<\/a> \u200c that two Freedom Road\u200d Socialist Organization members told \u200ban undercover FBI\u2062 informant that\u2064 they raised money for terrorist groups in the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Aby-Keirstead nor Kennedy High \u2062School returned requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Aby-Keirstead&#8217;s pro-Hamas speech\u200b at the Oct. 21 panel was <a href=\"https:\/\/fightbacknews.org\/articles\/frso-twin-cities-celebrates-the-chinese-revolution-with-panel-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed<\/a> by \u200cthe Freedom Road Socialist\u200b Organization&#8217;s blog, Fight Back! News.\u200c That blog in 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/fightbacknews.org\/articles\/los-angeles-demands-justice-rasmea-and-palestine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expressed support<\/a> for convicted \u2062Palestinian terrorist\u200c Rasmea Odeh, \u2064who was involved in the 1969 bombing of a Jerusalem supermarket. The organization itself <a href=\"https:\/\/frso.org\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">works<\/a> to create &#8220;a new \u200dCommunist \u200bParty \u2062based on Marxism-Leninism&#8221; and on \u200dOct. 9 praised Hamas&#8217;s \u200cattack on Israel as a &#8220;good turn\u2062 of \u200cevents.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Israel, the U.S. government, \u2064and much of the media promotes [sic] the idea that the Palestinian resistance\u2062 is somehow &#8216;terrorist.&#8217;\u200b Nothing \u200ccould be further from \u2064the truth,&#8221; the organization said in \u2062a <a href=\"https:\/\/frso.org\/statements\/stand-with-palestine-victory-to-the-palestinian-resistance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>. &#8220;The Islamic Resistance\u200b Movement (HAMAS), \u2062the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Palestinian \u200bIslamic Jihad, \u200bthe Democratic Front for the\u2062 Liberation of Palestine and \u200cso many\u2064 others represent the \u200caspirations of\u2064 a free people, Palestinians who insist on the end to\u2062 occupation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Aby-Keirstead&#8217;s arrest\u200c outside of McCollum&#8217;s office was not \u200cher first run-in with Minnesota police. The public \u200dschool\u2062 teacher was twice convicted of criminal trespass in 2002 and 2010, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-doj-official-heading-to-law-firm-that-defends-hunter-biden\/\" title=\"Top DOJ Official Heading to Law Firm That Defends Hunter Biden\">court filings reviewed<\/a> by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> show. Those charges \u2063do\u200b not bar her\u2062 from teaching in Bloomington Public Schools,\u2063 as the district only considers felonies and child-related misdemeanors to be disqualifying offenses for\u2062 prospective teachers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What concerns does the incident raise about the influence of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic \u200drhetoric in \u200bAmerican schools?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Gh\u2063 School responded to \u200bmultiple \u200drequests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Supporters of \u2062Israel \u200chave criticized\u2063 Aby-Keirstead&#8217;s remarks and \u2062called for \u200ddisciplinary\u2063 action. Laurie Suchet, executive director of the American Jewish \u200cCommittee&#8217;s Minneapolis chapter, stated\u200d that Aby-Keirstead&#8217;s statements are &#8220;deeply\u2064 troubling and undermine her role as an educator.&#8221; Suchet added, &#8220;Teachers should foster open dialogue and respectful exchange of ideas, not promote hate speech and violence against any group of people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This incident raises concerns about the influence of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic rhetoric in American schools, particularly at \u200dthe K-12 level. It\u200d is essential for educators to promote tolerance, understanding,\u2062 and critical thinking, rather than spreading\u200b divisive and harmful \u200cideologies.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, \u2064Aby-Keirstead&#8217;s involvement in far-left \u2064activist groups, including the\u200c Freedom Road Socialist Organization and the \u200dAnti-War\u200b Committee, raises questions about her impartiality as an educator. Teachers play a crucial role in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-diego-teacher-arrested-for-allegedly-trying-to-pay-for-sex-with-minor\/\" title=\"San Diego teacher arrested for attempting to pay for sex with a minor.\">shaping young \u200bminds<\/a> and should prioritize providing \u2063objective and balanced education to their students.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2062 arrest of Aby-Keirstead and\u2063 her 14-year-old daughter during an anti-Israel\u200b rally also raises concerns \u2064about the appropriate boundaries between personal\u200c activism and professional responsibilities. Educators should \u200dbe mindful of their actions\u2063 and avoid \u200bengaging in activities that may compromise\u200b their \u2062professional integrity.<\/p>\n<p>It \u200dis crucial for school administrations\u200b to investigate this matter thoroughly and take appropriate action, ensuring that both the\u2062 rights\u2063 of the teacher and the well-being of the students are protected. Disciplinary measures, if warranted, should be implemented\u200d to maintain the integrity of the educational \u200cenvironment.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, this incident highlights the importance of promoting\u2064 respectful and \u200bconstructive dialogue around complex geopolitical issues, such as the\u2063 Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Educators should encourage \u200bcritical thinking, empathy, and open-mindedness, allowing students to explore diverse perspectives and \u2062form their own opinions\u200c based on accurate information.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, Meredith Aby-Keirstead&#8217;s support for the eradication of the\u200d Jewish state and her \u2064advocacy for terrorism against Israelis during an event commemorating \u2062&#8221;past socialist revolutions&#8221; raises significant concerns about bias and the promotion of hate\u200b speech in\u200d American schools.\u2064 It is crucial for educators to prioritize tolerance, \u200bunderstanding,\u2064 and objective education to create an inclusive \u2064and \u200crespectful learning environment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an event honoring &#8220;past socialist revolutions,&#8221; Meredith Aby-Keirstead, a Minneapolis teacher, celebrated Hamas as &#8220;freedom fighters&#8221; and called for the elimination of the Jewish state. 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