cause he is Jewish

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Apologies cant see a thread about this.
Staff at Bristol Brunel academy blocked a visit by Damien Egan, their local MP because he is Jewish. Clear case of antisemitism. AIBU to thinking that headteacher and those driving this decision should be sacked and reported to the Teacher Regulation Agency?
(Apologies thread title isnt correct, but i can't edit it)

Who would harm schoolchildren because their local MP, a Jew who belongs to an entirely legal and peaceful organisation that supports a two state solution in the ME, went to visit their school?

These people sound like very dangerous terrorists. Shouldn't they be the villains of this piece? Shouldn't we do something about them? Shouldn't we name them? Or does our concern for children's safety begin and end with restricting an MP because someone doesn't like a two state solution and he does? I don't know about you but I don't find that massively convincing.

If this is called progress God help our kids. We are regressing and that's what's meant to happen. There's useful idiots and there's useful idiots.

I now realise that was a post in bad faith because I can't believe any parent would be so stupid to suggest an MP causes more danger than a fascist baying mob. Oh well, another antisemist showed her hand.

Every time people cave to this sort of thing you make me and my children less safe. I am scared every single day - not always just about what’s happening now, but with what I see coming in 2/5/10 years. I wonder if I’ll notice that moment where I need to grab my kids and run. There’s a moment in each version of this story and millions miss it. I don’t want to be Anne Frank hiding in an attic, I want to be the ones who left 2 years before. My great grandparents saw the writing on the wall and fled from Russia in the 1880s. They survived. Their siblings and cousins did not.

https://spectator.com/article/why-cant-a-jewish-mp-visit-his-local-school/

Earlier a Guardian article was posted. I think this piece raises some interesting points.

Yes. Again, I can't help thinking about the situation with TRAs and how successive governments just capitulated to them. If you had told me twenty years ago that a Tory government would prop up the lie that people can change sex, I would have laughed in your face.

💯 frightening

The school's primary duty of care is to the children that attend it, and to ensure their safety.

If the school hadn't contemplated a possible protest when arranging the visit, and the protest has since manifested, they need to perform a risk assessment and implement any measures they deem necessary in order for the (rearranged) visit to go ahead.

Asking the school to shirk their duty of care, and expose students to unnecessary risk, is unreasonable.

But it is important that the visit ultimately goes ahead, and as soon as possible, once the school has made adequate arrangements.

Even if you personally would not want to be cowed into rescheduling an event you were involved with, risk-be-damned, you don't get to demand that children be exposed to avoidable risk in defense of you strength of principle.

That's true, of course. However, it is utterly disgraceful that threats should have been made in the first place.

Don’t let the door hit you as you leave 🚪

What!? How rude.

Pompous, much?

Yeah the official statement from the staff union is as follows:

““This is a clear message: politicians who openly support Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza are not welcome in our schools. Egan is vice-chair of Labour Friends of Israel and has visited Israel since the current onslaught on Gaza began, demonstrating his support.”

This thread is the usual conflation of being against the current Israeli government actions in Palestine with being anti-Semitic, for God’s sake please stop doing this, it is a dangerous path that weakens the ability to prevent genuine anti-semitism.

This statement from the union is a nonsense. It is claiming a genocide, which is inaccurate.

The more I read about this, the more concerned I become. I was initially under the impression that this would likely be rescheduled, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I do see antisemitism, here (both in terms of the protests and this thread). The teachers who intended to protest should be subject to an investigation, at least.

Regardless of the use of the term genocide, my point still stands.

Their duty of care should be addressed by the police issuing s dispersal order not capitulating to mob rule.

How does it stand? It really doesn't.

It’s concerning that teachers are unable to distinguish the difference between supporting people who are Israeli and live in Isreal and bring peace with a two state solution with people who support the Israeli government

it’s utterly shameful that so many teachers are antisemitic but having union support is absolutely no surprise at all

the left of the Labour party are poisoned with antisemitism

It’s perfectly reasonable to not wish to be lectured by a politician in one’s workplace who supports Netanyahu and his government:

https://www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/netanyahu

It is not anti-semitism.

See my post below.

It’s also perfectly reasonable to call out antisemitism when its seen/heard

as it is with racism, sexism and so on

so people shall keep on doing so

It very much is. There has been no evidence produced that the MP supports the current Israeli government. To assume both that he does and that automatically makes him persona non grata is the very definition of anti semitism.

I agree, but I don’t think there is evidence of anti-semitism here.

Bet if he was in a group called Best Mates with Tehran and had a twitter feed that even Osama bin Laden would find 'a bit too much' the staff would be breaking out the bourbons and the pink wafers for him.

Now the teachers have generated bad publicity they are trying to make out it's a safety issue, when they are the ones who have put a big, fat target on this man's back. These people are not suitable to be teaching children. I would not want them to be teaching Jewish children, especially Jewish children whom they deemed to have the wrong views.