{"id":544277,"date":"2021-05-28T13:35:42","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T17:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=544277"},"modified":"2021-05-28T13:35:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T17:35:43","slug":"massachusetts-school-hangs-black-lives-matter-flag-days-after-the-group-condemned-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/massachusetts-school-hangs-black-lives-matter-flag-days-after-the-group-condemned-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts School Hangs Black Lives Matter Flag Days After the Group Condemned Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fmassachusetts-school-hangs-black-lives-matter-flag-days-after-the-group-condemned-israel%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=544277&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3492.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Jewish residents of a Massachusetts town are criticizing a public elementary school&#8217;s decision to hang a Black Lives Matter flag a week after the organization condemned Israel for &#8220;settler colonialism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sprague Elementary School in Wellfleet, Mass., live-streamed a ceremony on Wednesday to showcase the hanging of the Black Lives Matter flag. Teachers who spoke during the event said the flag &#8220;is a statement of support of human dignity, respect, and justice.&#8221; In a May 17 tweet, Black Lives Matter announced that it stood &#8220;in solidarity with Palestinians&#8221; and Palestinian &#8220;liberation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Black Lives Matter is one of several organizations that condemned Israel for defending itself against Hamas terror attacks in Gaza. Israel counterstrikes against Hamas sparked a wave of anti-Semitic violence in the United States. Jewish men have been beaten in New York City and Las Vegas. In Miami, a group of Palestinian activists screamed &#8220;Free Palestine,&#8221; &#8220;fuck you Jew,&#8221; and &#8220;die Jew&#8221; at a Jewish family.<\/p>\n<p>Rabbi Moshe Bleich of the Wellesley-Weston Chabad told the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> that Sprague Elementary&#8217;s move was poorly timed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Black Lives Matter came out with their statement last week, and there&#8217;s an actual war where one side is threatening to annihilate the Jewish people,&#8221; Bleich said. &#8220;And as we&#8217;ve seen over the last week to ten days, there are physical attacks against Jewish people in Miami, Phoenix, New York. \u2026 It&#8217;s a really bad time to put out a Black Lives Matter flag at a public school.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sprague Elementary School said the flag hanging was not a political statement. During the ceremony, however, one educator appeared in front of a shelf that displayed a children&#8217;s book about Vice President Kamala Harris and her sister. Other teachers spoke in front of a poster that said &#8220;what it means to be woke.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Black Lives Matter has a history of condemning Israel. Leaders of the movement traveled to Israel in December 2014 to &#8220;connect&#8221; with Palestinian activists &#8220;living under Israeli occupation.&#8221; Patrisse Cullors, a cofounder of Black Lives Matter, said that activist groups &#8220;can benefit greatly&#8221; by learning about &#8220;the Palestinian struggle.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an apartheid state,&#8221; Cullors, referring to Israel,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebony.com\/news\/dream-defenders-black-lives-matter-ferguson-reps-take-historic-trip-to-palestine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> <em>Ebony<\/em>&nbsp;at the time. &#8220;We can&#8217;t deny that and if we do deny it we are apart of the Zionist violence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions National Committee thanked Black Lives Matter for standing in &#8220;solidarity&#8221; with Palestinians in a reply to its May 17 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BDSmovement\/status\/1394578742920552453\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet<\/a>. Black Lives Matter and the BDS movement are &#8220;united&#8221; through their &#8220;struggles against racism, white supremacy and for a just world,&#8221; according to the tweet. BDS seeks to punish the Jewish state through economic pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Wellesley, a town of 30,000 residents outside of Boston, is home to a sizable Jewish community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are hundreds of Jewish kids in the public schools, and for a child to walk by a flag that has to support a group that threatens to annihilate my people, that can be a very traumatic experience for children,&#8221; said Bleich, whose synagogue includes members of the Wellesley school district.<\/p>\n<p>Sprague Elementary administrators announced that they would hang the flag on May 8. Noah Glick, a Sprague parent, told the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> that his son&#8217;s third grade class was shown a presentation on Black Lives Matter a few days later. The slideshow included photos of protesters, one of whom held a sign that defined privilege as &#8220;something that you don&#8217;t know you have until you realize that others don&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jewish and non-Jewish parents alike were concerned by the decision to raise the flag. Glick said it was one of a series of parents&#8217; concerns with the Wellesley public school district. Wellesley spends thousands of dollars more per pupil than a nearby district, where students perform better on standardized tests, Glick said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s concern that academic excellence is being put on the back burner in favor of diversity, equity and inclusion. And that sounds nice as a nice statement of goals, but in practice, it&#8217;s an emphasis on molding and indoctrinating children as opposed to teaching them with academic rigor,&#8221; Glick said. &#8220;[Parents] just don&#8217;t want their public institutions aligned with the Black Lives Matter organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hanging the flag isn&#8217;t the district&#8217;s first excursion into woke politics. Wellesley Public Schools in March banned white students from attending a virtual event on Asian hate crimes\u2014prompting the nonprofit group Parents Defending Education to file a federal <a href=\"https:\/\/defendinged.org\/complaints\/ocr-complaint-wellesley-public-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">complaint<\/a> with the Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A public school district\u2014in 2021\u2014is encouraging segregation on the basis of race,&#8221; Parents Defending Education spokeswoman Nicole Neily said. &#8220;That&#8217;s not only immoral, it&#8217;s also unconstitutional.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sprague Elementary principal Leigh Petrowsky did not respond to a <em>Free Beacon<\/em> request for comment in time for publication.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Up until last week, you can say you supported Black Lives Matter and ignore what they stand for,&#8221; Bleich said. &#8220;But at this point, it&#8217;s become very clear to everyone where Black Lives Matter stands. As such, it has no place in Wellesley.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jewish residents of a Massachusetts town are criticizing a public elementary school&#8217;s decision to hang a Black Lives Matter flag a week after the organization condemned Israel for &#8220;settler colonialism.&#8221; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313404,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3492.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Massachusetts School Hangs Black Lives Matter Flag Days After the Group Condemned Israel","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/fb_image-3492.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Massachusetts School Hangs Black Lives Matter Flag Days After the Group Condemned Israel","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}