A Jewish Georgia center faculty trainer has been arrested for threatening to kill a Muslim center faculty scholar who took offense on the Israel flag displayed in his classroom. He is been charged with cruelty to youngsters and making terroristic threats.
In response to accounts collected from greater than 20 witnesses — together with different lecturers — Seventh-grade social research trainer Benjamin Reese went right into a rage on the afternoon of Dec. Seventh at Warner Robins Center Faculty. Three college students say they have been strolling down the corridor after faculty when one seen a flag of the State of Israel in Reese’s classroom and requested him why it was on show.
In response to the coed’s account recorded in a police report reviewed by 13WMAZ, Reese stated “he was Jewish and has relations nonetheless there.”
The female Muslim student advised Reese the nation’s flag was “offensive because of Israelis killing Palestinians” within the Israeli-Hamas struggle, which brought about him to change into indignant and name her antisemitic.
They left and Reese adopted the three down the hallway, yelling at them alongside the way in which.
The mildest quote: “You do not make an antisemitic remark like that to a Jew!”
Nevertheless, a number of lecturers say the 51-year-old Reese additionally unleashed vivid threats of violence:
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“You motherfucking piece of shit! I will kick your ass! I ought to reduce your motherfucking head off!”
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“She is a silly motherf***er, and I’ll drag her by the again of my automobile and reduce her f***ing head off for disrespecting my Jewish flag!”
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“I will slit her fucking throat!”
One of many lecturers advised police that, as Reese went ballistic, she feared for her personal security. Safety video captured Reese following the scholars. When the principal and a college safety officer tried to query Reese in regards to the incident, he turned agitated and aggressively kicked a door-stopper earlier than “invok[ing] his civil rights” and strolling away.
I have been skeptical of claims that Jewish school college students are so “unsafe” that they want particular protections, simply as I have been skeptical of that narrative for different teams.
However this is a scholar positively justified in feeling unsafe because of a trainer’s statements on Israel: pic.twitter.com/QFsVe8RibP
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) December 15, 2023
Within the biography that is nonetheless posted on the college’s web site, Reese says he is a Navy veteran and that “over the course of the final 8 years [teaching], I’ve been challenged far past something 17 years of army service had ready me for, and I find it irresistible.”
Reese is out of jail, having met the bond necessities set by the decide: $5,000 for the cruelty to youngsters cost and $2,500 for the alleged terroristic menace. In a press release to 13WMAZ, the Houston County Faculty District fastidiously distanced itself from Reese:
Whereas we aren’t in a position to talk about particular personnel issues, we will share that Mr. Reese has not been on the campus of Warner Robins Center Faculty since Dec. 7, 2023. Security and the well-being of our college students and workers is our primary precedence.”
The Georgia center faculty incident comes alongside allegations that antisemitism is operating rampant on school campuses, with Jewish college students claiming they really feel unsafe and a few filing lawsuits charging school administrations with breach of contract for failing to bar speech in regards to the Israel-Palestine battle that they interpret as threatening.
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