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PA school faces fury after Muslim club’s pro-Palestinian display leaves Jewish students ‘shaken’
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FIRST ON FOX: A Pennsylvania school district is facing backlash from Jewish parents after a Muslim student club promoting Palestinians passed out keffiyahs to students, featured imagery criticizing Israel, and was more focused on activism than culture, parents say.
«My child came home shaken and unsure of whether it’s even safe to speak up as a Jew at school,» Lynn Simon, a Wissahickon School District parent, told Fox News Digital about last Monday’s event at Wissahickon High School, where student clubs were presenting at an annual culture fair stand that had booths representing various cultures, including a booth from Muslim Students of America chapter.
The district’s superintendent, Dr. Mwenyewe Dawan, can be seen in photos on Instagram, along with assistant superintendent Sean Gardiner. The school’s principal, Dr. Lynne Blair, posted photos of the event on her official school social media account, but has since removed some of the photos.
Upset parents say some of the students were displaying slogans like «Jerusalem is ours,» offering cash prize contests, encouraging administrators and young students to don keffiyehs, and essentially engaging in pro-Palestinian activism on school grounds.
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Jewish parents at Wissahickon High School outside Philadelphia took issue with a Muslim student booth last week. (WikiCommons)
«When the principal is posting pictures of students wearing slogans like ‘Jerusalem is ours,’ and the superintendent is encouraging illegal minor-led games of chance, while visiting & taking photos with politically charged booths dressing students up in keffiyehs, that’s not education—it’s indoctrination. We don’t send our kids to school to be marginalized. We demand accountability, not photo ops.»
Fox News Digital reached out to the Wissahickon School District multiple times and did not receive a response.
Steve Rosenberg, Philadelphia director for the North American Values Institute, told Fox News Digital that «the Wissahickon administration continues to set the gold standard for educational malpractice.»
«The blurring of lines between culture and radical political propaganda — facilitated by staff, celebrated by leadership, and normalized for students — is both an embarrassment and a warning sign. School should be a place for critical thinking, not cultural intimidation and performative activism masquerading as diversity. The district owes its students better.»
A letter sent by dozens of Jewish parents to the school, obtained by Fox News Digital, further outlines the concerns about the event and said their children witnessed several things that «crossed clear educational and ethical boundaries.»
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Demonstrators gather in Washington, D.C., for the No Kings Day protest on Oct. 18th, 2025. (Emma Woodhead/Fox News Digital)
«Students visiting the Muslim Student Association booth were encouraged to wear keffiyehs, a symbol that in the current global climate is widely associated not only with cultural heritage but with political movements, hostility toward Israel, and in many contexts open expressions of anti-Jewish sentiment,» the letter, sent to Superintendent Dawan, said.
«Multiple students reported that you spent time at the Muslim Student Association table, and did not halt the intimidating and inappropriate behavior. For many Jewish students, this was not experienced as a cultural gesture — it was experienced as political signaling from the highest authority in the district.»
What was «more troubling,» the parents explained, was the cash and candy being given out in exchange for interacting with the booth activities.
The letter reads: «Using financial or material incentives to draw students into a politically charged display is inappropriate and coercive. It exploits students’ curiosity and social pressure, turning an educational setting into an environment where certain political identities are rewarded and implicitly sanctioned by district leadership.»
The photos posted by Blair were described in the letter as «even more alarming,» and the «Jerusalem is ours» slogan was described as a slogan that goes beyond being a «cultural statement» but rather a «political claim that denies Jewish history, identity, and connection to Israel’s capital.»
«This is messaging commonly used in extremist and anti-normalization movements,» the parents argue in the letter. «For a school leader to publicly endorse this imagery, even indirectly, is profoundly inappropriate and sends a chilling message to Jewish students: your history and identity are contested here, and the people in authority are comfortable amplifying those who contest it.»
In a board meeting on Dec. 1, the president of the MSA chapter defended the term and said it is not «inherently antisemitic.»
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A statue of George Washington tied with a Palestinian flag and a keffiyeh at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., on May 2, 2024. (Craig Hudson/Reuters)
«Jerusalem is currently a conflict zone in which two parties are actually fighting over it,» the student said. «That statement was written in Arabic so none of the Jewish students could actually understand that and take that as antisemitic, so that is actually just something that an individual is saying to tear us down and paint us as antisemitic. Which is actually going off of my previous point that antisemitism should not be watered down. We should not throw that term lightly here and there.»
The parents in the letter call on the school to take five measures in response to their concerns, including providing a public explanation of the district’s involvement in the keffiyehs being passed out and addressing the principal’s social media post amplifying the controversial message.
Additionally, the letter calls for the release of the «planning framework» for the event, including how booths were approved.
The parents also ask for «clear district guidelines» addressing how they will ensure that cultural programming does not veer into «political advocacy» and how all groups, including Jewish students, will be protected from «intimidation.»
Lastly, the parents are asking for a «listening session» where Jewish families and students can share how they were impacted by the booths.
«Schools must be safe, neutral spaces where students of all identities are respected,» the letter concludes. «What happened this week undermines that principle, and it has caused real fear among Jewish students who now wonder whether their district will protect them — or leave them to navigate this climate alone.»
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House Dem lashes out at ‘racist’ MN fraud probe amid major investigation in his own state
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As House Oversight Democrats denounced a hearing on Minnesota’s sprawling fraud scandal as politically motivated, Rep. Dave Min, D-Calif., took it further — calling the investigation «partisan and racist.»
But back in California, state auditors have repeatedly flagged major programs as «high-risk» for waste and improper payments, raising fresh questions about whether Min is dismissing scrutiny he wouldn’t want aimed at his own state.
During a House Oversight Hearing earlier this month on the fraud issues in Minnesota, Min said, «We have not seen evidence of any type of fraud on the scale we’re talking about» in California. Min added during the hearing that he had concerns about the ongoing fraud in Minnesota, which has included a significant portion of Somali immigrant perpetrators, but said he had issues with the probe because it appeared Trump was only targeting Democrat-led states, and not Republican-led states as well.
MINNEAPOLIS MAYOR JACOB FREY ADMITS FRAUD CRISIS IS REAL, SAYS ‘EVERYBODY COULD HAVE DONE MORE’ TO PREVENT IT
Rep. Dave Min, D-Calif., called a federal oversight hearing looking into widespread fraud in Minnesota «partisan and racist,» leading some critics to call him out for turning a blind eye to widespread fraud in his own state. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
«I have concerns about this hearing as well as recent actions by the Trump administration. It’s hard for me not to look at this hearing in the context in which it’s taking place and not see this as a partisan and racist hearing,» Min complained.
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment on these accusations from Min but did not receive a response in time for publication.
«Democrats will do anything to deflect from the fraud that has been allowed to run rampant on their watch, including playing the race card,» House Majority Whip Tom Emmer said. «First, it’s not racist to call out criminal behavior. Second, I wonder what Congressman Min’s constituents have to say about him not taking fraud seriously when California taxpayers are also being robbed blind to the tune of $72 billion.»
Representative Tom Emmer, a Republican from Minnesota, during a television interview at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2025. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
A report released by the California State Auditor’s office last month found several state agencies wasted or misused millions, which follows other audits showing many billions being lost to waste, fraud and abuse in the state, according to California GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton.
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«It’s totally ridiculous,» Hilton told Fox News Digital of Min’s comments that there is no evidence of California fraud. «We’ve already seen state auditor reports that have characterized tens-of-billions-of-dollars as being improperly spent, starting from the audit of state homelessness spending.»
California GOP gubernatorial candidate Steve Hilton clapped back at Congressman Dave Min’s (D-Calif.) claim that there is no evidence to suggest widespread fraud in the state. (John Phillips/Getty Images for TechCrunch)
According to Hilton, there are criminal prosecutions ongoing in California pertaining to homelessness spending by officials.
Meanwhile, seven state agencies in California have been denoted as «high-risk» for fraud, waste and abuse by the State Auditor’s office, while an extra agency was also added to the list of vulnerable programs that is regularly kept.
«Vulnerable Democrat Dave Min is more outraged by an oversight hearing than the billions in fraud hurting Americans in Minnesota and California,» said National Republican Congressional Committee spokesperson Christian Martinez. «For Min, accountability isn’t a principle, it’s a problem.»
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Fox News Digital reached out to Min for comment, but did not receive a response in time for publication.
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Uruguay anuncia medidas de apoyo para productores rurales tras cinco años de sequías intermitentes
El tambo familiar del productor uruguayo Daniel Suárez sufre sequías, de manera interrumpida, hace cinco años. El déficit hídrico es un asunto que cada tanto vuelve a ser el tema central de sus preocupaciones, como sucedió en las últimas semanas de 2025. La lluvia no llegaba al país y las pasturas destinadas a la alimentación del ganado eran cada vez menos.
Suárez veía cómo los cultivos no lograban desarrollarse y se iban perdiendo, con la consiguiente pérdida económica que eso significaba, según relató este lunes al noticiero Telenoche de Canal 4. Tuvo que utilizar las reservas previstas para el invierno, lo que encarece los costos de producción. La cantidad de leche diaria se redujo un 50%, lo que derivó en una baja de entre el 20% y el 25% de la elaboración de quesos.
Historias como las de Suárez se repiten en el sur de Uruguay, que hasta este fin de semana esperaba con ansias la lluvia. Las precipitaciones llevaron calma a los productores rurales, que sintieron “alivio”, pero en muchos casos no fue suficiente y los reclamos al gobierno para que tomara medidas de apoyo continuaron.
Para este martes, el Ministerio de Ganadería, Agricultura y Pesca (MGAP) convocó una reunión para evaluar la situación provocada por la falta de lluvias. A la salida del encuentro, el ministro de Ganadería, Alfredo Fratti, aseguró que no existen “datos objetivos” que hagan necesario que Uruguay declare la emergencia agropecuaria (el nivel máximo de las decisiones previstas).
Sin embargo, se resolvieron medidas de apoyo para productores agropecuarios de Canelones, Colonia, Florida, Lavalleja, Maldonado, Montevideo, Rocha y San José, los departamentos más afectados por el déficit hídrico.
El Ministerio de Ganadería anunció que solicitará al Banco de Previsión Social (BPS) –el organismo previsional de Uruguay– que postergue los vencimientos del pago de los aportes patronales rurales. Con esto, las obligaciones que vencían en enero pasarán a mayo; al tiempo que los vencimientos del quinto mes, se postergan para julio.
De esta manera, explicó el gobierno, se evitan superposiciones de pagos.
“Es un alivio”, dijo Fratti al anunciar esta medida. Y señaló en una rueda de prensa que de continuar con esta situación hídrica, se deberán tomar medidas puntuales para el sector de la granja y para los pequeños ganaderos.
Otra medida anunciada por el gobierno fue la autorización para el pastoreo del ganado en caminos rurales y en rutas nacionales. “Es imprescindible para este momento”, argumentó Fratti.
Un reclamo del sector productivo era poder acceder a alternativas de financiamiento flexibles en este momento. Una de las respuestas a este pedido es que el banco estatal República presentará “nuevas medidas específicas”, según se señala en la información difundida por Presidencia.
Además, el Instituto Nacional de Colonización –otro organismo estatal– abrió una línea de crédito por USD 2.000 dólares –con una tasa de un 5% de interés anual– para pequeños productores familiares que necesiten dinero para el alumbramiento de agua o la compra de forrajes. Así lo informó el presidente de la institución, Alejandro Henry, en una rueda de prensa.
Henry agregó que el organismo trabaja en medidas de apoyo para proyectos de riego en las colonias. “Nos parece que tenemos que apuntar como país a estas medidas para el mediano y largo plazo”, señaló.
● Postergación del vencimiento de enero del aporte patronal rural al BPS
● Autorización del pastoreo en rutas nacionales y caminos rurales
● Apoyo técnico y divulgación de buenas prácticas para productores ganaderos por parte del Instituto Plan Agropecuario y del programa Procría
● Facilidades en los créditos e inversiones en agua para productores colonos por parte del Instituto Nacional de Colonización
● Facilidades créditos de República Microfinanzas
● Habilitación de una línea específica del Banco República para enfrentar consecuencias del déficit hídrico
● Concretar coordinaciones interinstitucionales para el suministro de agua para consumo humano y producción familiar, con OSE e intendencias.
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Iran pushes for fast trials and executions of suspects detained in protests despite Trump’s warning: report
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Despite President Donald Trump’s warnings, Iran’s chief justice called for fast trials and executions of suspects detained in the ongoing anti-government demonstrations, a report said Wednesday.
The remarks from Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei come as the death toll in the protests has risen to at least 2,571, the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency said. Other reports say the death toll is more than 3,000, with the real number likely to be even higher.
«If we want to do a job, we should do it now. If we want to do something, we have to do it quickly,» Mohseni-Ejei said in a video shared by Iranian state television, according to The Associated Press. «If it becomes late, two months, three months later, it doesn’t have the same effect. If we want to do something, we have to do that fast.»
Trump warned Iran about executions in an interview with CBS News that aired on Tuesday.
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President Donald Trump, left, and Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei, the chief justice of Iran, right. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Mohammadali Najib/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)
«We will take very strong action,» Trump said. «If they do such a thing, we will take very strong action.»
«We don’t want to see what’s happening in Iran happen. And you know, if they want to have protests, that’s one thing, when they start killing thousands of people, and now you’re telling me about hanging — we’ll see how that works out for them. It’s not going to work out good,» the president added.
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Iranians attend an anti-government protest in Tehran, Iran, on Jan. 9, 2026. (UGC via AP)
Trump also vowed on Tuesday that those responsible for killing anti-regime demonstrators will «pay a big price.»
«Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING — TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!» Trump wrote on Truth Social. «Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price.»
People gather on Jan. 8, 2026, in Tehran, Iran. (Anonymous/Getty Images)
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«I have canceled all meetings with Iranian Officials until the senseless killing of protesters STOPS. HELP IS ON ITS WAY,» he added.
Fox News’ Anders Hagstrom and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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