UFT teacher exposed as antisemitic

0:00 Speaker 1 With us today is Dabe Kominski. He is a reporter with the Washington Examiner, and he called me and says he’s got some real good stories about a story about what’s really going on and with the teachers’ union and Gabe Kaminski, please tell us and tell tell the world about what’s going on.

0:23 Speaker 2 Yeah, John, thanks for having me. On October seventeenth, a teacher at MS one thirty one Doctor Sunyacht Senn Middle School in New York that’s in Chinatown, named Judy Chang, she sent an email to members of the United Federation of Teachers union in her school. She’s the representative for the union in her school, essentially justifying the hamas terror

0:52 attacks against Israel. She said, quote, it pains me to see the New York City Schools Chancellor and union making recent public statements denouncing October seventh actions of Palestinian militants, but not the last seventy five years of genocidal, illegal Israeli COLONIALUS occupation which created an humane condition that led to the terror tacks. So we reported on this email

1:17 in Washington Examiner and spoke with other educators in this district as well as members of Congress who take major issue with it, and one member of Congress, Anthony Diasposito, is actually calling for the New York Department of Education to launch an investigation.

1:37 Speaker 1 So where do you think it’s going to. Have you had any updates on.

1:42 Speaker 2 That, Yeah, we don’t have any updates. And the moment, all we can say is, you know, we published email that this union chapter had had sent to the rest of the school, and it’s raising concerns farticure among educator.

2:00 I mean, you’ve seen since the AMAS terror attacks against Israel, there’s been major backlash due to the fact that in K through twelve and universities, as you’ve seen, John, there’s been this major anti Israel sentiment, particularly I would even note, putting aside New York City. This week at George Washington University there were projections, as your listeners may have saw

2:26 on social media, in which students put up a projection on the library saying praising the quote unquote martyrs who murdered fourteen hundred Israelis. So it’s kind of a flashpoint moment in the country. And this is an example that.

2:44 Speaker 1 I understand and the speech teacher that did that, let’s say, on October seventeenth female. I see a memo is the teacher Judy Chang at MS one thirty one and doctor Sun Yatsen, a middle school teacher in New York City’s Chinatown.

3:05 Speaker 2 That’s right, Judy Chang is the teacher, and that’s the middle school MS one thirty one. And look, this is a this is a public institution, right this taxpayer dollars are obviously involved here. And that’s kind of what Representative Mike Lawler and Anthony Disposito to Pro Israel Republican lawmakers had told me when I interviewed them. They aside the

3:27 fract from the fact that yes, this is a public institution there, you know, they don’t think that a it’s in the jurisdiction for a teacher to be emailing her coworkers, sort of downplaying the you know, a terror attack that just killed fourteen hundred people.

3:45 Speaker 1 And then and then Chang, the school’s representive for the United Federation of Teachers, sent it to the union members and claimed she was only speaking only for myself from a personal point of view, not for Chapter LITA.

4:05 Speaker 2 That’s right. Chang in a written statement to The Washington Examiner, which we also published in the story said she quote did not give permission to publicize a private email, and that she unequivocally does not support terrorism of any kind.

4:21 She also had said, no one has ever justified in targeting innocent civilians, not a moss, not Israel. The other interesting thing is that this teacher, like many other pro Palestinian supporters, when in her response to her email to me, she falsely alleged that Israel was responsible for a recent bombing alleged bombing at a hospital in Gaza, when in fact,

4:45 actually what happened is a parking lot was actually struck by a failed Palestinian rocket.

4:51 Speaker 1 If people want more details, they should go to your your report in the Washington examine it. And what is the website for that?

5:02 Speaker 2 That’s right, you go to washingtonexaminer dot com. You can read all our stories and this this uh and.

5:08 Speaker 1 The reporter is your name, Gabe Kaminsky. That’s right. All right, thank you for for the update, and let’s let’s see what happens and keep us informed.

5:18 Speaker 2 Yeah, thanks John, thank you