Queens elected officials and Jewish community leaders rallied outside the borough offices of the city Department of Education offices in Ozone Park on Monday, Nov. 27, demanding answers on the city’s lack of transparency over a two-hour antisemitic rampage in the hallways of Hillcrest High School in Jamaica on Nov. 20.
Students were seen on video rioting after they discovered a teacher changed her social media profile picture to indicate that she “stand with Israel” on her own device, on her own time, according to Council Member James Gennaro. Videos of the violent rampage went viral on social media over the weekend, alarming Gennaro and his colleague in government, as well as the Jewish community which has felt isolated and under attack since Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel on Oct. 7 slaughtering more than 1,200 civilians and kidnapping more than 240 back to the Gaza Strip.
