Jewish Parents Are Now Suing ENTIRE California Education System, ‘F–ck the Jews”

A group of Jewish parents has filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Education, the State Board of Education, and State Superintendent Tony Thurmond, alleging systemic antisemitism in public schools across the state. The lawsuit claims that Jewish students have been subjected to harassment, anti-Jewish and anti-Jewish rhetoric in classrooms, and discriminatory treatment by school staff.

One ninth-grade teacher organized a walkout that featured chants of ‘f— the Jews,’ while others said schools punished their children for reporting anti-Semitism

A first-of-its-kind federal lawsuit was filed on February 26, 2026, by the Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and StandWithUs against the State of California, the California State Board of Education, the California Department of Education, and Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond. The lawsuit alleges that public K-12 schools across California have fostered a hostile, antisemitic environment where Jewish students are harassed, bullied, and segregated.

Key Allegations in the Lawsuit:
“Segregation” of Students: The complaint alleges that when Jewish students reported antisemitism, they were in some cases separated from their peers, such as being forced to “sit alone in the library” to protect teachers, rather than addressing the perpetrators.
Teacher-Led Harassment and Propaganda: The suit highlights instances where teachers promoted materials that included anti-Semitic tropes, glorified violence, and facilitated anti-Israel walkouts.
Specific Incidents: One complaint detailed a ninth-grade art teacher at Berkeley High School who displayed art featuring a Star of David with a fist punching through it and encouraged students to attend a walkout where chants of “f— the Jews” occurred.

“Ethnic Studies” Indoctrination:
The lawsuit alleges that under the guise of “ethnic studies,” students are taught that “Zionists” or anyone associated with Israel are “oppressors” and “white supremacists”.
Retaliation for Complaints: Parents alleged that school administrations either ignored complaints or retaliated against students who reported anti-Semitic bullying.

The lawsuit seeks to force the state to implement better oversight and prevent the use of public schools for, in the words of Brandeis Center chairman Kenneth Marcus, “antisemitic indoctrination”.

‘Jewish Students Are Segregated’: Parents Sue California State Education System in First-of-Its-Kind Complaint Over ‘Anti-Semitic Propaganda’ and Harassment

One parent alleged that a ninth-grade teacher organized a walkout that featured chants of ‘f— the Jews,’ while others said schools punished their children for reporting anti-Semitism.

According to the allegations, incidents included students chanting antisemitic slogans during a school-organized walkout, a Jewish student being disciplined for wearing Jewish symbols, and instructional materials that parents argue promoted inflammatory political messaging. The complaint further alleges that, after parents reported concerns and submitted evidence, schools responded inadequately — in some cases removing Jewish students from classrooms or placing them in alternative settings rather than addressing the alleged harassment.

The lawsuit seeks accountability from state-level education authorities, arguing that the response to reported antisemitism has been insufficient and discriminatory.

Jewish parents are now suing the entire California education system.

Not one district.
Not one school.

The entire state.

Why?

Jewish students are being pushed out of classrooms so teachers can run anti-Jewish propaganda sessions.

In California public schools.
In 2026.

One teacher allegedly organized a school walkout where students chanted:

“F— the Jews.”

Another student was punished for wearing Jewish symbols.

Not the kids chanting hate.

The Jewish kid.

Parents filed reports.

Submitted evidence.

Hundreds of complaints.

Ignored.

Instead schools removed the Jewish students.

Pulled out of class.

Sent to libraries.

Forced into online courses.

Separated so teachers could continue anti-Israel lessons without “pushback.”

Think about that.

Jewish students removed so anti-Jewish teaching could continue uninterrupted.

Kindergarten materials included:

“I is for Intifada.”

I kid you not.

Jewish students report hiding their identity at school just to stay safe.

So now Jewish families are suing:

• California Department of Education
• State Board of Education
• State Superintendent Tony Thurmond

First lawsuit of its kind in America.

Because in California schools now:

Jewish students report antisemitism

and the system’s response is:

Remove the Jews.

Disgraceful.

BOOM
Jewish parents are now suing the entire California education system.

Not one district.
Not one school.

The entire state.

Why?

Jewish students are being pushed out of classrooms so teachers can run anti-Jewish propaganda sessions.

In California public schools.
In 2026.… pic.twitter.com/vNBdiBj3uk

— Jews Fight Back (@JewsFightBack) February 26, 2026

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‘Jewish Students Are Segregated’: Parents Sue California State Education System in First-of-Its-Kind Complaint Over ‘Anti-Semitic Propaganda’ and Harassment
One parent alleged that a ninth-grade teacher organized a walkout that featured chants of ‘f— the Jews,’ while others said schools punished their children for reporting anti-Semitism

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

By: Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, February 26, 2026

A group of Jewish parents sued the California state education system on Thursday, alleging that the state’s public schools have become anti-Semitic cesspools in which “Jewish students are segregated and pulled out of classes so that teachers can spew anti-Israel and anti-Semitic propaganda without pushback,” according to a copy of the first-of-its-kind lawsuit shared with the Washington Free Beacon.

The California State Board of Education, the California Department of Education, and state superintendent Tony Thurmond fostered a hostile environment throughout all of California, ignoring numerous reports from parents whose children had been targeted solely for being Jewish, according to the complaint. In one case, a teacher punished a 12-year-old student “because he was a Jew who dared to wear Jewish and Israeli symbols.” In another, a ninth-grade art teacher organized a walkout “in support of Palestine” that featured chants of “f— the Jews.” When one parent spoke up about the issue during a school board meeting, faculty members mocked her and called her a “Zionist Nazi bitch.”

State officials responsible for protecting students from discrimination allowed “California’s schools to indoctrinate children, from the earliest ages, to believe that Jewish Americans and Israelis—including Jewish and Israeli classmates—are racists, white supremacists, and oppressors who should be shunned,” the lawsuit states.

The case documents numerous anti-Semitic incidents across the state, according to the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, which is handling the lawsuit alongside the pro-Israel advocacy group StandWithUs. It marks the first time legal advocates have sued an entire statewide system over pervasive anti-Semitic harassment and could set a precedent for those in other states to follow suit. Anti-Semitism in California schools, though, has been particularly prevalent since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack against Israel. The San Francisco teachers’ union, for instance, endorsed a curriculum that claimed many allegations of anti-Semitism are “fabricated” and used to silence pro-Palestinian activists. The public school system in Berkeley received a federal complaint in 2024 over its alleged failure to stem an escalating series of anti-Semitic incidents that culminated in hallway chants of “kill the Jews.” Even before Oct. 7, the state’s proposed ethnic studies curriculum included a lesson that described Jews as having “experienced conditional whiteness and privilege.”

The California State Legislature passed a bill in late 2025 acknowledging “well documented” cases that “Jewish and Israeli American pupils across California are facing a widespread surge in antisemitic discrimination, harassment, and bullying.” Gov. Gavin Newsom (D.), though, was silent on a coordinated bomb plot that a radical anti-Israel group had planned before federal law enforcement foiled the operation, and is facing a lawsuit from a former California National Guard commander who says Newsom “facilitated” an anti-Semitic campaign that resulted in the former commander’s wrongful termination. The Brandeis lawsuit implicates at least one individual vying to replace Newsom in this year’s gubernatorial election: Thurmond, the state superintendent, declared his candidacy back in September 2023, though polling averages have him with 2 percent of the primary vote.

The Jewish families who collectively filed “hundreds of formal” complaints with their respective schools and the California Department of Education maintain that state school administrators were aware of anti-Semitic harassment but either recommended segregating Jewish students from the rest of the class or swept the reports under the rug. The alleged behavior violates California’s constitution, which provides protection for minority groups, as well as federal and state civil rights laws, according to the lawsuit.

Plaintiff Melissa Alexander, for instance, said a teacher repeatedly punished her 12-year-old son solely because he wore clothing that could identify him as Jewish and a Star of David necklace. The teacher, whose name is not included in the filing, “openly proclaimed that Zionists are the enemy” and “had a public social media account filled with virulently anti-Semitic and anti-Israel content.” When Alexander presented this evidence to school administrators and reported that the teacher had mistreated her child, the officials “actively chose to ignore it.” Instead, the school put the student “into new classes in the middle of the school year.”

A similar incident occurred in the weeks after Oct. 7 at Berkeley High School, where plaintiff Ilana Pearlman’s ninth-grade son endured anti-Israel diatribes from an art teacher who “boasted to the class about his latest artwork: an image of barbed wire fences in the shape of a Star of David with a giant fist punching through it,” according to the complaint. The same instructor allegedly used his classroom to promote a walkout “‘in support of Palestine,’ spending time and resources to advertise the demonstration.” The event that followed “was filled with chants that included, ‘Fuck the Jews.’”

When Pearlman reported this behavior to school administrators, those officials allegedly pulled her son from the class and sent him to learn separately in the school’s library and student health center. “The school’s decision to punish the targets of anti-Semitism rather than the perpetrators made a lasting impression on” Pearlman’s son, who now hides his Jewish identity in fear, the filing states.

At Daniel Pearl Magnet High School in Los Angeles—named after a Jewish journalist slaughtered by Islamists in 2002—a teacher repeatedly subjected a student to alleged pro-Hamas activism inside the classroom.

Plaintiffs Dawn and Michael Rosenthal said that their son’s honors chemistry teacher littered the classroom with anti-Israel propaganda. The Rosenthals reported the conduct to Los Angeles Unified School District, which responded with a statement that “the teacher was refusing to remove” anti-Israel posters, according to the complaint. By Oct. 7, 2025—the two-year anniversary of the Hamas attacks—the chemistry teacher allegedly wrote on the blackboard, “‘Oy vey, it’s free’ with an arrow pointing to ‘FREE PALESTINE.’”

As in other cases, the school pulled Rosenthal’s son from the class and ordered him to take a “remote online chemistry course,” as well as “additional academic burdens to accommodate his chemistry teacher’s anti-Semitism.” The teacher in question was only removed from the classroom after stapling a student’s arm in an unrelated incident that carried felony charges.

The lawsuit also included examples of anti-Israel teaching materials used in California classrooms. A curriculum for kindergarten through third grade, for instance, includes links to a read-aloud book called “P Is for Palestine.” It states that “I is for Intifada,” defining it merely as “rising up for what is right, if you are a kid or a grownup.”

Teachers in Oakland, meanwhile, used an unauthorized December 2023 “teach-in” to have students draw “The Zionist leaders of Israel receiv[ing] money and support to conduct [a] two-tiered (unfair) system where Palestinians are mistreated and attacked.”