DEI staff at a middle school in Seattle created a display to celebrate “Arab and Middle Eastern Heritage Month” and intentionally replaced Israel with Palestine in the list of “countries where Arabic is spoken”.
The display is still up during Jewish American Heritage Month, which is the month of May.
Here’s more from TPM:
A Washington middle school in a district known for its radical activism removed Israel from a display about countries in the Middle East and replaced it with Palestine. The display remains in the school’s hallway during Jewish American Heritage Month.
A parent at the Kellogg Middle School in the Shoreline School District sent The Ari Hoffman Show on Talk Radio 570 KVI a picture of the display in a hallway featuring the colors of the Palestinian flag.
The display was created in April for Arab and Middle Eastern Heritage Month and featured every Arab country in the Middle East and North Africa but removed the Jewish state of Israel and replaced it with Palestine, which is not a nation. In the display, unlike other Arab states, Palestine has no cultural or historical information attributed to it.
The one token mention of Israel came from noting that Hebrew was one of the top-spoken languages in the Middle East. The display has not been updated for May, which was designated Jewish American Heritage Month by President George W. Bush in 2006. Last week, annual proclamations were issued by local leaders declaring Jewish American Heritage Month.
The parent told Hoffman that the display was created by the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) staff at the school.
Because of the outrage the school is fixing the display to include Israel, where Arabic is one of the official languages, and to note that Palestine is not a recognized country by the United States.