ORIGINS High School in Brooklyn, where more than 40% of the student body are Muslims and 22% Black, has become a haven for Hitler-loving hooligans who terrorize Jewish teachers and classmates. Just three weeks after the Oct. 7th Hamas massacre of 1,200 Israelis, 40 to 50 Muslim teens marched through Origins HS in Sheepshead Bay waving a Palestinian flag and chanting “Death to Israel!” and “Kill the Jews!” staffers said.
NY Post (h/t Victor S) “I live in fear of going to work every day,” said global history teacher Danielle Kaminsky. The hateful procession was shocking even for Origins, a school rife with bias and bullying, insiders told The Post.
In a disturbing instance in late January, a group of (Muslim) boys came into Kaminsky’s classroom at the end of the day, and cornered her, laughing, she said. “Miss Kaminsky, do you love Hitler?” one asked. “I was so taken aback,” she said. “I did not respond, and they all gave the heil Hitler sign.”
Frightened, Kaminsky quickly left her classroom. One boy waved to his friends to chase her inside the building, a scene captured on security footage, Beaudry said.
Kaminsky immediately reported the harassment to the acting principal — who refused to suspend the boys because she found they did nothing wrong, records show. “We can’t do anything because the students claimed they were trying to have an ‘academic conversation,’” staffers quoted her as explaining.
Antisemitism at Origins HS has festered for several years, Kaminsky and Beaudry said.
According to interviews with multiple staffers, and a Jewish student’s safety transfer request, recent hate incidents include:
- A student painted a mustache on his face to look like Hitler, and banged on classroom doors. When someone opened, he clicked his heels and raised his arm in the Nazi gesture, security footage shows.
- Three swastikas in one week were drawn on teachers’ walls and other objects, a manager found.
- A 10th-grader told Kaminsky, 33, who is Jewish, “I wish you were killed.”
- Another student called her “a dirty Jew” and said he wished Hitler could have “hit more Jews,” including her.
- Students pasted drawings of the Palestinian flag and notes saying “Free Palestine” on Kaminsky’s classroom door. One scribbled note that said simply, “Die.”
The school has many Muslim students in families from Middle Eastern nations such as Yemen, Egypt, and Palestine, along with those from Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in Central Asia.
Several Jewish students bullied because of their religion have fled Origins since last year. In that time, the school’s enrollment of 508 has plummeted to 445. Currently, no more than a dozen Jewish kids attend Origins, staffers say.
The teen tormentors have so far faced no serious discipline under interim acting principal Dara Kammerman, who has done little beyond contacting parents in an effort to practice “restorative justice,” staffers said.
“She is perpetuating an antisemitic environment and a school of hate,” said Michael Beaudry, campus manager of the Sheepshead Bay building that houses Origins and three other schools. “The students continue these behaviors because they know there won’t be any consequences.”
In response, the city Department of Education said it will launch a probe: “There is currently no evidence that these claims are true, but we are investigating the claims.”
At Kaminsky’s request last March, Kammerman arranged for a group of students to visit the Museum of Jewish Heritage, which had a new program to educate students about antisemitism and the Holocaust.
The museum, in Battery Park City, first sent two female interns to Origins to prepare the teens for what they would see. Several boys nearly brought the young women to tears with rude and appalling comments, according to emails with the museum and staff accounts.
One Muslim teen, imitating Hamas, said he would have sex with a dead Jewish woman. Another said he would “take money from the dead Jewish people’s corpses.” Others made derisive remarks like “Who cares about the Jews?” The museum canceled the visit.
When another group of Origins kids went later that year, some stuffed trash in the donation box. The museum omitted a meeting with a Holocaust survivor because some kids were so disrespectful.
In one case, a Jewish sophomore found three swastikas scribbled on his laptop charger when he returned from the restroom, he wrote in a safety transfer request obtained by The Post. “I feel like in history class I’m always targeted and it’s hard for me to take,” the student wrote, He also said he heard that a classmate called Hitler “the G.O.A.T” (Greatest of All Time) “I feel very uncomfortable in this school, and the comments just make it worse and worse every day.”
Kaminsky, who joined Origins in 2017 after working four years in Long Island, has experienced antisemitism only at the DOE school, she said.
Kaminsky is pro-Israel, but aims for neutrality in lessons and at cultural events, she said: “As history teachers, we know how to discuss controversial and sensitive topics while looking at all points of view, and encouraging kids to become critical thinkers.”
It’s widely known among students that Kaminsky is Jewish, though she doesn’t make a point of it, she said. Her students routinely draw swastikas next to their names on classwork, engrave the Nazi symbol on their desks, and scribble them on bulletin boards, she said.
An Israeli flag – one of nearly 200 from countries around the world that Kaminsky hangs in her classroom – was ripped down in the spring of 2021. A group of girls told her it was taken across the street and burned.
“I’ve been yelled at, followed, taunted,” Kaminsky said. “I report everything to the principal. I’ve been to a school safety committee. I’ve told my union, the UFT. I’ve told my superintendent,” Brooklyn South high schools chief Michael Prayor. They’ve offered little help. “Nothing has made me feel safe going to school,” she said.
“I used to get involved in after-school clubs, sports, and Regents prep. Now I don’t want to stay in the building any longer than I have to.”
“It’s heartbreaking,” said a non-Jewish female student who graduated in June and now attends SUNY. “I love Miss Kaminsky. During my junior and senior years, she was one of the teachers I could confide in, and she would help with whatever I needed. She cares about her job. She’s trying. She’s working in a system that doesn’t support her.”
Jews are not the only target of hate. “The LGBTQ community is being taunted and terrorized every single day,” (Muslims are notorious for their violent homophobia) he said. “One of my students who identifies as gay told me he’s been bullied to the point where he doesn’t want to come to school anymore.” When Beaudry urged the youth to submit statements on the abuse, the teen replied, “It’s a waste of time because they don’t go anywhere.”
During an assembly in November, when a gay teacher announced a new LGBTQ club, “a mob” erupted, Beaudry said. “They started ripping stuff off the walls. They chanted ‘kill the f—-ts’ and ‘stop with the gay shit.’” One Muslim kid threw an object that hit a teacher in the head.
Teachers locked their classroom doors during the ruckus to protect other students and themselves. “The school is a ticking time bomb,” said Beaudry, 48, an ex-cop and father of three.
And it isn’t just Origins High School that has this Muslim problem:
New York City public school teachers, parents, and students are demanding answers from Chancellor David Banks, who they claim is failing to tackle an increase in antisemitism in schools.
New York City parent, teacher groups promoted pro-Hamas student walkout: Kids yelled ‘F*ck the Jews!’
The Community Education Council for District 14, which covers ultra-liberal Williamsburg and Greenpoint in Brooklyn, used its platform to encourage the 700-student protest involving 100 schools — and even shared resources including antisemitic signs proclaiming, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
Students protesting on Thursday near Franklin Delano Roosevelt High School in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, were captured on video yelling, “F*ck the Jews!” Jewish students were horrified.
Brooklyn school children. pic.twitter.com/X1KRcTdL6c
— Mr. Jewish Bookery (@Jewish_Bookery) November 9, 2023
Daniel Erbstoesser says
I see that its way past time that she gets an early birthday present with the name smith and wesson. That is the only language these little pieces of xhit understand.
nhlfoda says
As “Madaussie says”… this is an infestation and it will get worse if the leftist scumbags in this country are permitted to carry out their agenda. Invest in lead and be prepared to take this country back before this infestation and a corrupt DOJ allow Sharia Law to take root… once that happens; blood shed will be a daily occurrence and extermination will be the only option.
MuzzieScumHatingJew says
And IdiotJews like the president of the Anti-Defamation League and the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society aid and abet the invasion of America by muzzieScum – who have been killing INFIDELS – Jews, Christians and others for the last 1400+ years. Oftentimes Jews are our own worst enemy!! When will the CIVILIZED WORLD (by which I mean all non-muzzieScum countries) realize that ISLAM IS UTTERLY INCOMPATIBLE WITH FREEDOM!! . . . and stop allowing muzzieScum to invade their countries!!
Madam DeFarge says
This what happens when your principal is afraid of muslims.
Trev says
That’s what happens when you allow illiterate, barbarians to migrate into your country. This is all to the exact design of the Globalists, a country divided is easy to conquer.
Rob R says
Welcome to hell
Me says
I hate to say it, but you can see where this is all heading.
How many more students and teachers will needlessly die in “religion related” school shootings before all this is stamped out?
Time to give those in charge the tools and the back-up to deal with this, no quarter given – deport those who are inciting the hatred, including the parents back to their country of origin.
Tell the bleeding hearts to go f**k themselves too, it’s time to step up and fight back!
BareNakedIslam says
There used to be hundreds of Jewish students in this school. Now there are 12.
Madaussie says
Got A Bad Cockroach Infestation. Had To Spray The Adults As well As the Juveniles, to Make Sure There Was No More Problems.
Az gal says
She needs to hightail it out of there. All Jews & other sane people as well. Those Muslum lovers should be expelled.
PinkCadlac ~ All American / American says
Terrorists in training. Seeing as they are at this level of violence and disrespect while they are still teenagers, just wait for them to grow beards.