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• Israel war: NYC school union head justifies Hamas attack in ‘private’ email to teachers
• The union chapter leader for a New York City school is under fire from teachers and members of Congress for sending an email to colleagues alleging “illegal Israeli colonialist occupation” is what “led to” the deadly Hamas terrorist attacks against the Jewish state.
• “It pains me to see the NYC Schools Chancellor and UFT making recent public statements denouncing Oct 7th’s actions of Palestinian militants, but not the last 75 years of genocidal, illegal Israeli colonialist occupation, which created the horrific, inhumane conditions that led to last weekend’s kidnappings and Hamas’ incursions,” Cheng wrote in the email, calling for the union’s teachers’ retirement system to “divest from weapons and other companies that are complicit in violations of Palestinians’ civil and land rights.”
• “Last weekend’s events didn’t start this conflict,” Cheng continued. “The conflict started long ago, in 1917 and in 1948, when Palestinian homes were taken by force. Every year, $3,800,000,000 U.S. taxpayer dollars goes to fund an illegal occupation and settler colonialist state. Until the U.S. stops its support for Israel, unless the U.N. develops greater enforcement powers, and unless we as peace-loving people begin to have honest conversations with each other about anti-Arab Zionist colonialism, innocent Palestinian men, women, children, and elders will continue to be displaced, evicted, and erased from the map. Literally.”
• The email, which totals roughly 700 words, underscores how teachers, as well as K-12 schools and universities, have expressed sympathy for Hamas on the heels of its unprecedented attack

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