Jewish parents have yanked their kids out of Big Apple public schools at an alarming rate since Hamas’ horrific attack on Israel three years ago, blaming educators — like the Brooklyn teacher who praised the Oct. 7 mastermind — for fostering hate.
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who → yank → hate
Thousands of families in New York have opted for the friendlier confines of yeshivas and day schools since the 2023 terror attack on the Jewish state, citing rampant antisemitism inside public shools, a review by The Post found.
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review → opt → Post
“They’re shown videos that Israel was starving Palestinian girls,” said Josh Horowitz, who left Williamsburg and moved upstate to have his daughter in a safer setting.
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who → show → setting
“They were calling Zionists violent.
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They → call → Zionists
It’s not about me.
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It → ’ → me
It’s about what was being taught in the classroom.”
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what → ’ → classroom
Upper East Side mom Natalya Murakhver, who yanked her two children from PS 87 in 2024, said the change in the public school culture since the terror attack has been stark.
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change → yank → attack
“Things have progressed very quickly.
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Things → progress → ?
I think we’re entering a new phase,” she said.
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she → think → phase
“Back then, I think they were at least trying to pretend it was just about Israel.
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it → think → Israel
And now it’s pretty clear to those for whom it wasn’t clear before that anti-Zionism is Jew hate and antisemitism as we know it.”
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we → ’ → it
A June report by the Teach Coalition found that K-12 enrollment in Jewish schools in the state rose nearly 2% — roughly 3,100 students — in the 2025-2026 school year alone, largely in New York City and upstate towns like Monsey.
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enrollment → find → Monsey
Coalition CEO Sydney Altfield said the jump was 4.2% from 2022 to 2025, more than double the 1.8% growth in Jewish school enrollment from 2019 to 2022.
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jump → say → 2022
Paul Bernstein, CEO of Prizmah, a network representing 300 Jewish day schools and yeshivas in the US and Canada, said a recent survey determined that 60% of parents who enrolled kids in their Jewish schools said they wouldn’t have done so if not for the three-year-old Hamas-Israeli war.
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they → represent → war
More than half of them said they had fled public schools, Bernstein said.
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Bernstein → say → schools
Since then, the number of New York City Jewish families looking to move their kids to a new school has “doubled, if not tripled,” said Alina Adams, a city school admissions consultant.
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Adams → look → school
“It’s three years in, and if anything, it’s gotten worse,” Adams said.
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Adams → ’ → ?
“Before three years ago, I worked with many, many Jewish families, and no one asked what a school was like for Jewish families.
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school → work → families
“Over the last three years, people have been asking more and more as they’re looking for new schools,” she added.
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she → ask → schools
“Every single Jewish family I work with, every single one, it might be the first question, it might be the last question, but it will always be a question: What is this school like for Jewish students?”
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school → work → students
The most recent catalyst for parents is Hamas-loving Brooklyn teacher Damien Nevin, a failed fashion photographer who moved to teaching — and sparked controversy by repeatedly praising the terrorists who attacked Israel in 2023.
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who → love → 2023
“Long live Yahya Al-Sinwar,” Neva said in a 2024 Signal group of anti-Israeli Park Slope Food Coop — a shout-out to the mastermind of the terror attack, according to a lawsuit tied to the coop.
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Neva → live → coop
He wasn’t alone — last month, George Trim, a social studies teacher at IS 181 in Bath Beach, got into hot water for allegedly spewing antisemitic 9/11 conspiracy theories, including claims that World Trade Center owner Larry Silverstein knew the terror attack was coming and did nothing to stop it.
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attack → get → it
A disturbing report in July by United Jewish Teachers found that there had been at least 250 antisemitic or anti-Israeli incidents inside the city public school system since the 2023 terror attack on Israel.
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report → find → Israel
In one instance, parent Deborah Uri said she pulled her son out of Townsend Harris High School shortly after the terror attack after he had “a couple of upsetting incidents.”
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he → say → incidents
“After Oct. 7, things changed at the school,” she said.
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she → change → school
“My son instantly lost his close friends.
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son → lose → friends
They would no longer touch or talk to Jews.
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They → touch → Jews
Administration just kind of went silent.”
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Administration → go → ?
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