By:  Serach Nissim

A Pre-K teacher in a New York City public school is teaching young children anti-Israel hate among other progressive ideologies.

As reported by the NY Post, Siriana Abboud, 29, a city Department of Education teacher at PS 59 in Midtown Manhattan, has guides posted on social-media instructing other teachers too how to talk to 4-year-olds about “land theft, displacement and ethnic cleansing.”  She encourages parents to take the young ones to pro-Palestinian protests, and in her Instagram stories accuses Israel of being a “fascist ethnostate”, irrespective of the brutal Oct. 7 terror attacks by Hamas terrorists.  Abboud is not only using her classroom as a platform to indoctrinate kids and push her left-wing agenda, but is also offering exclusive “teach-ins” for parents, other educators and activists.

Topics of interest cover Palestine, Zionism, and the “struggle against colonization.” She writes in her posts, that early education can be a “tool for liberation.”  She adds that “teaching can never be radical or revolutionary, so long as you deny the ongoing and violent colonization of Palestine by Zionism”.  One guide on how to talk to kids about Palestine suggests comparing it to European colonization, police brutality in the U.S., or to “some people wanted to build a wall in the U.S. to keep families away.”  “There already is a wall in Palestine that hurts Palestinians,” a post “pinned” to the top of the teacher’s Instagram page says.   “Justice-informed teaching means breaking down power imbalances I’ve been given as a classroom teacher,” she has said, and that “we aren’t teaching the truth if we’re silent on Palestine.”

Abboud’s Instagram page, which also promote her consulting business, is filled with criticism for Israel and posts about the “genocidal state of Israel”.   She also has recommended resources, including a “shout-out” to the website Decolonize Palestine– which is described as an independent, self-funded project founded by two people in the West Bank’s Ramallah.  It celebrated the anniversary of the first violent “intifada” riot in 1987 in a post and said it is “fondly remembered.”

The teacher’s book recommendations include a children’s picture book entitled, “P Is for Palestine” by Golbarg Bashi.  Some have called the book antisemitic, based on its use of “intifada” for the letter “I” and for failing to recognize the existence of Israel.

Per the Post, Abboud earns $70,000 a year with the DOE.  Last spring, she was awarded the coveted Big Apple Award in the early childhood category, being nominated by the school community and chosen by DOE stakeholders. The distinctive honor gave the teacher a seat on the Chancellor’s Teacher Advisory Council and gave her the position to indoctrinate other teachers as well as setting policies and programs and sharing teaching practices with colleagues. The Big Apple Award bio praises Abboud as a “liberation-inspired educator” who centers “global consciousness.”  Besides for the Middle East topics, Abboud has also taken up other leftist issues such as avoiding gendered terms like “boys and girls” in the classroom, preferring the use of anatomically correct phrases for body parts.

Abboud also runs Allusio Academy, an online business that provides at-home curriculums for kids and workshops for adults and educators.  In a 2021 post on Allusio Academy’s Facebook page, Abboud wrote that a “brutal history of rape that was used to establish the state of Israel.”

One teacher reached out to the Post expressing concern about the hateful influence the teacher is having on the children.