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A lawsuit filed this summer in the state of Washington paints a devastating picture of one Jewish teenager’s unfolding nightmare of anti-Semitic torment and abuse at the hands of her classmates.
The girl—a freshman during the 2023-2024 school year at Nathan Hale High School, a public school in the Seattle area—was ostracized, spat upon, targeted with anti-Semitic slurs and swastikas and beset by threats of physical violence. Instead of protecting her—and disciplining the Jew haters who had her in their sights—school administrators stood by and let it happen.
“The Nathan Hale High School curriculum offers students a balanced educational experience focusing upon developing critical thinking and communication skills so that our students become members of a responsible, democratic citizenry,” states the school’s website, which also claims that “Trust, respect, decency, and equity throughout the school community are hallmarks of our building culture.”
But for one Jewish student at Nathan Hale, the experience of school was anything but decent.
“I never, ever thought in my worst nightmares could I have imagined (my daughter) would be dealing with this sort of thing,” said the student’s mother, who along with her daughter, is identified only by initials in the complaint.
According to the lawsuit, filed against Seattle Public Schools by her parents, the student, identified as MKL, began experiencing severe harassment following Hamas’s October 7, 2023 unprovoked attack on Israel.
It began with verbal threats and abuse from classmates of the girl who urged her to “kill herself” because she is Jewish. Swastikas started appearing around the school.
“She was hearing things like, ‘Hitler’s plan should have worked,’ and ‘I hate the Jews,’ ‘you should kill yourself,’” the mother recounted to a local news station.
MKL continued to face anti-Semitic harassment and threats throughout the school year and reported these to Nathan Hale Principal Dr. William Jackson and Vice Principal Makela Steward-Monroe, but the administrators trusted with her care did virtually nothing to stop the attacks which only escalated due to their inaction.
When students at the school organized a walkout protest in support of Palestine, MKL was surrounded by her classmates and spat upon.
“A student threatened to jump her if she wore Hanukkah pajamas to school one day… There was a group of students surrounding her and ganging up on her, and while they were talking to her, spit in her face,” her mother recounted.
MKL was a member of the school softball team and one of only a handful of visibly Jewish students on campus. Swastikas began appearing in school bathrooms and on school property, often accompanied by the slogan “Free Palestine.” It was clear to MKL that she was being specifically targeted—she discovered a swastika on the bench in the softball dugout of her school’s stadium where she was known to keep her things during games.
When she brought the hate symbol to the attention of an assistant coach, he claimed that it “didn’t look like a swastika.”
When her class read the Holocaust memoir Night by Elie Wiesel, MKL found a swastika drawn on her folder. Students laughed at the book’s descriptions of the horrors visited on the Jews. One student commented, “the bad thing about this book is that Hitler didn’t finish.”
Even outside of school, MKL couldn’t escape the harassment. The Nathan Hale Muslim Student Association’s Instagram account targeted her with derogatory messages and students created a TikTok video falsely labeling her a racist.
The freshman’s family repeatedly asked school administrators to intervene and stop the abuse but their pleas fell on deaf ears.
“He [the school’s principal] didn’t do anything to make it different despite how many times my daughter was in there crying about the numerous times that she was being harassed, told to shut up, called names,” the mother described.
School administrators “never attempted to mitigate this hostile environment for (the student) and other Jewish students, including not taking the cursory step of emailing the student body to address the swastikas appearing all over campus,” states the complaint.
The administration’s failure to discipline the anti-Semitic persecutors only made them bolder in tormenting their victim.
On May 22, 2024, the lawsuit alleges, MKL’s tormentors repeatedly tried to get her to leave her classes and lure her into the hallway. When one of her teachers grew concerned enough to lock the door to keep the freshman safe, a group of approximately 20 students gathered outside and banged on the door while screaming anti-Semitic slurs and threatening her with violence. Unable to get through the locked door, the attackers continued to bombard MKL with texts threatening physical assault as she cowered in the classroom.
In terror she texted her mother, “Mom. I rlly rlly rlly need you,” and also attempted to call her father, as students continued to pound on the door and threaten her with violence. The mob only dispersed when school security appeared to escort her to the administrative office.
Even after this horrifying incident, school administrators refused to protect MKL, claiming that they could not afford a security guard to accompany her to her classes. Faced with the administration’s total abnegation of responsibility for ensuring her safety, MKL did not finish out the remainder of the school year at Nathan Hale and has since transferred to another school.
Unsurprisingly after her months-long ordeal, MKL continues to experience “emotional distress” as well as “nightmares, flashbacks and sleep disturbances, fear of going into public and severe anxiety.”
“This was a horribly traumatic and devastating year for my child, and I don’t want anyone else to have to go through the same thing,” the mother said.
The facts of this case highlight the absurdity of the Left’s narrative that society can be neatly divided between oppressors and the oppressed. And they point to their inevitable and inexcusable consequences. In Seattle, an ultra-blue city in a blue state, the idea that a student of any other race or ethnicity could face even one tenth of the abuse suffered by MKL because she is Jewish without immediate consequences to the perpetrators is inconceivable.
Imagine a black teenager who was repeatedly attacked with racial slurs? Who found drawings of nooses scrawled in the bathrooms, in the hallways, on his personal property? Who was forced to listen as classmates laughed at barbaric depictions of slavery? Whose classmates expressed regret that the Confederacy lost the Civil War? Who had to barricade himself inside a classroom while white students screamed out the N word and called for his blood?
Would that student be disbelieved? Would the school administration throw up their hands and tell his parents, sorry, we just don’t have the resources to protect him?
Absolutely no sane person thinks this would be the case. A black student who faced merely one instance of racial abuse at a school like Nathan Hale would immediately have the DEI cavalry come to his defense. School administrators would hold mandatory assemblies, send mass emails, suspend or expel the perpetrators of racial hate. Local media would write stories with a quote from the school principal stating that Nathan Hale has zero tolerance for racial prejudice.
MKL’s story is possible only because she is Jewish. Because the same leftist idealogues who defend Hamas’s rape, kidnapping, and murder of innocent Israelis as an excusable excess in service of Palestinian liberation believe that Jews are part of the oppressor class who deserve what’s coming to them. Even a teenage girl in her school softball uniform.
Seattle Public Schools deserve to be skewered as hypocrites, Jew-haters, and zealots who put their adherence to Marxist ideology over their duty to protect an innocent student. And MKL and her family deserve their day in court.
What do you expect from scum.
The Jews who attend this school should design one of them school shootings which are so much in the news these days.
A good body count would be, say, two dozen of the Nazis killed.
War is war. Show no mercy.
Really Allan? Look, fighting back, i’m all for. Acting like an idiot, not so much. Acting like a serial murderer no… that’s no answer. Lawsuits against the entire admininstration, and the students should ensue and be relentless.
Agree, hitting them in the pocket is a much better idea. Especially if they have embraced Islamic values, in which case shame is a fate worse than death anyway.
And lawsuits against the school district who hire these inept and incompetent school administrators!
That’s right.
Go into the courts of the goyim, get down on your knees, and plead with them to see Jews as human beings…..like David Bowie in “Elephant Man”.
Violence is the more dignified alternative.
Yeah, lawsuits. That’ll work.
Thanks for summing up why American Jewry is always ineffective at protecting itself. But it’s safe, polite and takes forever to accomplish anything, and no one gets hurt.
Learn to spot satire.
We died UNARNEMED to the tune of 6,000,000 following German law.
We have no further need to demonstrate nonviolence to the play-acting bastards who claim we commit “genocide”.
Giving back rationally would entail killing 400 of theirs for every one of ours, because we have been hunted to the point of being a miniscule 1/400th of the world’s population..
It starts by asserting the facts LOUDLY, until a new movement of VIOLENCE starts up. Once it does we support it whole-heartedly.
Yeah? And are going to arm yourself and go in guns a blazing? If hot air was lethal, you’d be a bad ass. But hot air also comes out as farts.
I totally agree and mention all the time that Hebrew/Jews should never travel alone, go out in groups, get CCW, get trained and stay trained physically, mentally and with firearms. There is the less lethal but stopping legal weapon Byrna (sp) that I do not have because I no longer live in a megalopolis city.
You are against reparations for decedents of slaves, which makes total sense, But you want reparations for 6 million of our people massacred in the nazzi death camps by killing bullies and saber rattlers?
Look at Israel, in the final battles to wipe out hamazz and has dealt hezbullshita lethal blows and will not stop until after hamazz is wiped out, wiping out hellzbullshita. And Iran, they are on borrowed time. They are running out of water. These are conditions where citizens revolt!
All the while commerce and invention and innovation continues in Israel.
We can do nothing about the past except ensure it doesn’t happen again.
We are living in the times where genocide against Hebrew/Jews is happening and the saber rattling within the USA, EU, UN, etc., only takes one self loathing Jew George Soros who pays these assholes to be antifa and anti everything Jewish and Israel to vehemently protest as the lunatic fringe to come unhinged. We saw this year an illegal alien throwing Molotov cocktails are Jews gathering in Colorado Springs.
Of all the ridiculous nonsense you have posted this is really the fuck-tard of all of your bullshit – You offer no positive suggestions. You imply that these Jewish juveniles should come locked and loaded and blast away when that is not the solution to this horrendous problem that is allowed by the school, school district and these satanic blue states!
Contemplate before you write. Use your life experience and intellect for other than being a slob.
Flippant answers to real problems contributes nothing.
Conversely, you seem the type to go into screaming fits when things don’t go your perceived way!
Good luck – wake up and you are not helping our people with this satanic antisemitism that has become fashionable, vogue and hip since 10-7-2023. These are minors. Children. And this is a 14 year old Jewish girl being attacked.
I guess all the negativity means that Jews will be murdered successfully, due to our defeatism.
Let them kill us…..and let us beg for mercy in their courts.
Pffftt°°
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I say fight. The fight starts with the pep talk in the locker room before the game.
Never failing to show your Jew Hating stupidity.
“Nathan Hale Principal Dr. William Jackson and Vice Principal Makela Steward-Monroe.”
As soon as I read those names, I knew they were a couple of the usual suspects. Not just the names but the pathetically insecure desire to refer to being a “Dr.” by Willy Jackass. And “Makela” is a made up psuedo “African” name. Africa is a continent, not a country or even a linguistic tribal name. Anti-white, racist blacks hate Jews even more than they do all other whites so it’s no wonder those BLM DEI turds allowed that Jewish girl to be persecuted. And wee Willy goes on about “equity” on the school website. “Equity” is a black and left-wing dog whistle that means anti-white racism and inequity imposed on the best and brightest in favor of the worst and dumbest.
I wouldn’t blame that girl if she burned Nathan Hale High School to the ground.
Seattle was a good place when I left there 28 years ago. It’s a shit-hole now.
That lawsuit may open some eyes. If even only half this is true, she could seek damages to cover therapy costs and pain and suffering from repeated assaults.
The school staff should also face discipline if not punishment.
Bullying has reached a new depth, and it is scary.
God protect this girl.
Sadly, this kind of experience at so young an age, leaves lasting emotional scars
The article mentions other Jewish students. Have they also experienced this, and if so, why didn’t they have this poor girl’s back? Something doesn’t make sense here.
This should be a national story so I sent the title of this article and author along with today’s date to Fox News. Hopefully they follow up with you Sara and this will get additional exposure and other media will pick this up.
Time for the cowards fueling antisemitism to be on the chopping block!!!
If I am out of line here, please let me know. Antisemitism is blatant hate and cowardice and those allowing a young people to be treated with such disregard is outrageous.
Please let us know if Fox follows up.
I sent requests for additional coverage to:
Fox News
The Daily Wire
JNS
The Jerusalem Post
Arutz Sheva English
Send the information to Newsmax, Real America’s Voice, Salem News Channel and The First, too. They’re all much more likely to feature this story than Fox News.
I haven’t bothered to watch Fox News in over five years and don’t miss cable at all. I dumped it at the same time I stopped watching Fox. All four of the news networks I listed are far superior and free. If you don’t have a Samsung TV – everybody should – you can watch them on their websites. At the websites you can even watch previously aired shows.
What’s left out here is who was abusing her. Were they Muslim youth? Were they black, were they white?
Or all three acting in solidarity of hateful bigotry
The fact that their identities were withheld tells the tale. If they’d been white, that story would’ve been featured nationwide by the Dirtbagocrat fake news media.
What’s missing here are the identities of her persecuters. Were they Muslim, were they black, white etc.?
They are both black men – I googled them. Can you imagine if such harassment and bullying were perpetrated on black students? They would be the first to organize protests. But they didn’t give a sh*t – it’s “just a Jewish girl”. Pathetic.
The usual suspects. How obvious.
Sue not just the School but the ones doing all that to her sue them all make t hem eat Crow and Humble Pie
Exactly, Excellent point. Sue the parents of these punk kids. Just having to pay for a lawyer, taking time off work and enduring days in court will get these dipshit parents to maybe discipline their kids or blame Jews for all there problems even more. “See, what did I tell you kids, it’s the Jews why the world is so fucked up and my job is so bad and my life is so bad and we can’t get ahead”
No, numbskulls, it’s your MINDSETS!
All true but a case of beer says both punks are the products of single mothers.
How about humble shit pies?
I note the presence of swastikas, apparently a very large presence. Also the repeated admiration for Hitler and the Holocaust. Mind you, these are the people who, if you disagree with them, will call you a Nazi.
Being Seattle. we know that this condition is what they want to bring to the entire country. It’s called “total transformation”.
Resist and they’ll still call you a Nazi.
Nathan Hale High School is located in a crappy part of Seattle. Not nearly as bad as the Central District but still crappy.
It is a parent’s responsibility to educate their child.
There is no way any education is taking place in this building. I agree with a previous commenter that the names of the most deluxe administrators give the game away.
Why would the parents leave the child in this mess?
I am sorry to say it all sounds like a calculation to have a big lawsuit.
As usual – especially amongst socialists – the money is more important than the children.
Plenty of shame to go around and it is not even SHAME month.
I think that you are looking at the unfortunate, but understandable Jewish belief that if they negotiate, and make concessions, the other side will sooner or later start treating them as human beings. It has been evident in Israel as well. The fact is that there are some groups for which the doctrine of the subhumanity of Jewishness is completely non-negotiable, and there is no point in wasting time on trying (unless it is time-limited negotiation for diagnostic purposes, i.e., to check that belief systems really are as entrenched as they appear). Very sad that a child had to suffer for this misconception, though.
“I am sorry to say it all sounds like a calculation to have a big lawsuit.”
Are you referring to the parents of this girl’s calculation to have a lawsuit?
It’s the last or first resort.
Lawsuits do set precedents.
I would like to know if the girl is now going to a different school?
Everything else he wrote is spot on but that line is disturbing.
Every Jewish student a gun. If they don’t have a gun it is time to learn serious karate from a very young age; enough to take on a half dozen or so students and break their bones. No longer “Mr. Nice Guy.”
I agree but that level of karate is seldom achieved. Usually if you are attacked or threatened and are get a hold of one of them and put a serious hurt on them it’s enough. But these are unusual times. Jewish students should train together and stand together. Their parents need to pursue agressive legal action together at the first hint of this wickedness. And non Jewish students who know better and their parents need to stand up and stand with them.
Seattle has become such a dung heap
The lawsuit should NAME all of the regular tormentors as defendants.
I know this next won’t happen, but Seattle police should charge her most frequent tormentors. Their conduct has been plainly criminal in nature.
Principal Jackson and Vice Principal Steward-Monroe should be fired immediately for dereliction of duty and prevented from EVER getting employment in any school system. They obviously have barely functioning brains if they let all this happen and done nothing, and they are a disgrace to an already rotting education system.
They obviously wanted to protect the tormentors.
In addition to what you wrote they should be skewered as cowards, sheeple, feral imbeciles, low class vermin, thugs and imbeciles. The school administrators are even lower and more contemptible!
Ravenous wolves always gather in large packs to relentlessly attack their prey.
Jewish kids belong in well- defended Jewish schools. These other schools impart false values instead of knowledge, even when they’re not hostile.
Jewish kids belong in well- defended Jewish schools. These other schools impart false values instead of knowledge, even when they’re not hostile.
First and formost, I extend my heartfelt support to this girl and her family. The students, and their parents who perpetrated this hate against her need to be held accountable as well as the school, admin, school board, and school district admin who promote this terrorism.
I pray for healing and justice for this girl and her family. I pray God Almighty change the hearts of these abusive students, that they understand the error of their ways, genuinely repent, and are forgiven. I pray for their parents their community, and our nation that Light dispels this darkness, that we appreciate one another and our differences instead of condemning each other for them, and that we treat each other with love and kindness. I pray all this to my Father in heaven through His Son, Jesus.
Next, Send this story to Sean Ryan, Tucker Carlson and Charlie Kirk. Get state and national exposure. Don’t let up nor let the story die. With other Jewish students to corroborate her story it should not be hard to gain traction in national media. I’d also send it to ‘sympathizers’ in Hollywood.
Thank you for shining light on a dark situation.
God bless you.