Years of censorship, intimidation, and anti-Palestinian rhetoric have created a culture of fear in our schools. We deserve better. Our students deserve better. This must change, and now.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @nycschools.bsky.social @council.nyc.gov
@uft.org @moreuft.bsky.social
Teachers have received letters to file and been targeted by major media outlets for sharing factual information about the ongoing genocide in Palestine.
Students have had fundraising posters for Gaza torn down and school announcements censored. Others have been threatened for wearing keffiyehs or posting in support of Palestinian rights.
Uphold academic freedom and the right to free speech and protest. Protect students and families who support Palestinian rights. Refuse to remain impartial while students, families, and educators are being targeted and harassed. Express solidarity with students protesting in universities across the country. Do not adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism. Divest. End contracts with companies that profit from apartheid, occupation, and genocide, and ensure accountability by increasing transparency around contracts.
Support educator autonomy and agency in developing curriculum on a range of subjects that respond to the needs of students. Empower and support schools to hold brave spaces and engage with accurate history to combat Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian, and Anti-Arab racism. End contracts with curriculum vendors that reinforce harmful rhetoric about Palestinians and promote Zionism. Curricular materials that teach Palestine and Israel must include historical information about the Nakba and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians that lead to the creation of the state of Israel. Curricular materials must be based on a framework of international law and human rights.
Support pro-Palestinian students, families, and educators. End the targeted repression of Palestinian students, families, educators, and their allies on and off school campuses, including through disciplinary processes. Refuse to bow to calls to discipline young people for taking action and expressing their views. Mobilize additional mental health resources for students who are grieving the genocide.
Since this groupβs formation in 2019, no chancellor has addressed these issues including the current chancellor, Melissa Aviles-Ramos. As such, we ask that the incominig administration consider the following when selecting the next chancellor:
Over the years, educators, students, and families across the city have faced harassment, doxxing, censorship, and disciplinary action for expressing solidarity with Palestine.
As we head into the new year, Israelβs genocide in Gaza continues, and the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in the West Bank persists. These realities underscore the urgency of ensuring that NYC Public Schools are led by leadership committed to truth, justice, and the protection of educatorsβ and studentsβ rights to teach, learn, and speak freely in pursuit of a more just future.
As the mayoral administration transitions, NYC Educators for Palestine asks the incoming administration to consider and respond to the following experiences and demands.
Jamaal Bowman presents an equity and justice model of leadership that prioritizes people over bureaucracy. NYC Educators for Palestine is proud to stand in support of him as our next chancellor.
@nycschools.bsky.social @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @council.nyc.gov
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The teachers left inspired and determined to chip away at the investments in Israeli companies, knowing that campaigns like this take many years to organize before being successful.
@nycedpalestine.bsky.social
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The genocide is not over. We are dealing with overseers and executioners of an extermination campaign of children.
Dabke workshop
Monday, October 13
Join us for traditional dabke dancing and meaningful conversations in solidarity with Palestine with special guests members of El-Funoun
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We're extending the call for submissions of creative expression for the upcoming issue of TRAUE on Upholding the Thawabet (Ψ§ΩΨ«ΩΨ§Ψ¨Ψͺ): Staying Principled in Education, Solidarity, and Resistance.
Submissions due 1/15/2026.
@thegraduatecenter.bsky.social
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So many mutual aid requests coming out of Gaza.
People are desperate for food, medicine, water.
If you canβt donate, the least you can do is share.
Literally ethnic cleansing.
Please donate and share, share, share! Thank you so much.
Death toll of Palestinians from starvation rises to 251 - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-palestinians-starvation-rises-251
Stop Giving Israeli Officials A Media Platform To Spout Lies
Stop platforming Israeli government officials and professional genocide apologists. Stop asking them what they think. Stop presenting their lies and manipulations as news stories.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/stop-givin...
Team page NYC educators for Palestine
Help our team raise money for the NYC Gaza 5K!
The money will help raise awareness about mental health and provide counseling through UNRWA to traumatized Palestine refugee children living under blockade in the Gaza Strip.
getinvolved.unrwausa.org/team/762541
MORE CONCILIATORY THAN PREVIOUS AUTHORITARIANS, WILL NEW YORK SEE A NEW DAY DAWNING?: βZohran supports an end to mayoral control and envisions a system instead in which parents, students, educators and administrators work together,βΒ
www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2025...
Andrew Cuomo couldnβt allow his first, tepid recognition of reality β that the Israeli government, with the full support of the Trump administration, is starving the people of Gaza β last more than a few hours without walking it back.
This is someone who believes in nothing.
This survey only takes a few minutes and by filling it out you'll be entered into a raffle to win a cozy AQE hoodie as a thank you! What you share will directly shape what we fight for in Albany this year. Your voice matters and weβre grateful to have you as part of this work.
bit.ly/HaveYourSayNY
πNEA members voted to Drop the ADL. Will you tell NEA leaders you stand with educators and say to the ADL, not in our schools??
Sign the petition and share widely:
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UFT delegates voted to endorse Mamdani because they believe he is the best candidate in the race to advance our unionβs agenda: to protect our premium-free health care, fix Tier 6, pass the βRESPECT checkβ bill, implement the class size law, revamp mayoral control and more.
βI will be proud to work with the union to fully fund our public schools, to ensure that every dollar we win β be it in City Hall or in Albany β for the purpose of education is actually going into our classrooms,β said @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social at our press conference on the UFT endorsement. ππ
Hamas says Netanyahu 'unwilling' to reach Gaza ceasefire deal - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/hamas-says-netanyahu-unwilling-reach-gaza-ceasefire-deal
