To be clear, I don’t mean that it’s sad in the sense that the author of this did a bad job. On the contrary, it’s a great story. I mean that it’s actually sad to read it because it’s chock-full of Jewish progressives who are surprised to learn their fellow leftists don’t really want them around, at least not if they dare to support Israel’s right to exist.
The story takes us inside Little Red School House and Elisabeth Irwin High School, a $55,000 a year private school which was founded as a place where social justice would be a major part of the curriculum. That explains a recent field trip students took to The People’s Forum, an anti-Zionist encampment in midtown which considers itself the heart of the “student intifada.” Students were taken to the site and subjected to a 90-minute lecture about the evils of the US and Israel. One brave 9th grader objected to this indoctrination…
