A school board president in Philadelphia has apologized after a public meeting earlier this week devolved into what many parents described as anti-Semitism.
The Lower Merion school board meeting on Monday began a discussion about a small edit to the school district’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policy that resulted in a member claiming Jews “decided… to join the group of white people” and that they were not “historically marginalized.”
The problem began while the committee was discussing an edit to its DEI policy to bring it in line with the U.S. Supreme Court decision last year that ended affirmative action, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Board member Abby Lerner Rubin said she felt the policy was exclusionary, and eventually admitted she was talking about Jews, as she is Jewish.
Board members Kimberly Garrison, who is black, and Anna Shurak, who is Jewish,…
