We have previously mentioned Central Bucks West teacher Youssef Abdelwahab, his anti-Israel social media posts, and how some parents believe he is ‘brainwashing’ students. Mr Abdelwahab is a Spanish teacher and adviser to the high school’s Muslim Student Association. The Central Bucks School District investigated the teacher, and concluded that his out-of-school activities did not violate policies.

Well, now his activities have caught the attention of the Feds.

A Central Bucks teacher and student club are the subject of a federal investigation for alleged antisemitism

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating allegations of antisemitic statements by Central Bucks West teacher Youssef Abdelwahab and a Muslim student club.

by Maddie Hanna | Monday, April 29, 2024 | 12:45 PM EDT

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is investigating a complaint accusing the Central Bucks School District of permitting antisemitic statements by a teacher and a Muslim student group he advises.

The complaint, filed on behalf of a person whose name is redacted, alleges the district has discriminated against Jewish students — citing anti-Israel posts on Instagram by both Youssef Abdelwahab, a Spanish teacher at Central Bucks West, and the school’s Muslim Student Association, among other allegations.

The posts it describes include one on March 30 by Abdelwahab on an account for his business — he sells durags with designs inspired by kaffiyehs, a traditional Arab headdress often worn by supporters of Palestine — that said Israel was “ethnically cleansing Christianity from Gaza.” That weekend, the MSA club posted a prayer for Ramadan that read “Oh Allah, deal with the usurping Jews and the treacherous Zionists.”

In another post that weekend, the MSA shared a tweet that said “the birthplace of Jesus is getting bombed on Easter,” along with a photo the complaint said was taken in 2021.

There’s more at the original.

I have been to Israel, to Jerusalem, for four, very much too-short days. There are regular bus excursions to Nazareth, where Jesus grew up. Bethlehem is, unfortunately, in Samaria, part of the so-called ‘West Bank,’ nominally controlled by the Fatah faction of the Palestinian Authority. I was with my older daughter, a deployed Army Reservist, and she was under orders not to visit any territory controlled by the Palestinians.

Our time was spent in Jerusalem, in which Christian tradition is preserved, with several churches, including the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, various stops along the Via Dolorosa, the Garden of Gethsemane, as many traditional sites as any Catholic could ever hope to visit. While there are a few, and I stress the word few, Jewish irresentists who would like to eliminate the Christian sites, Christianity is completely tolerated in the holiest city to the Jews. Given that the United States is a primarily, though sadly diminishingly, Christian nation, and that President Joe Biden is supposedly Catholic — a Catholic of the most cafeteria kind — it would seem unlikely that Israel would do something to harm relations with Christians and the United States.

So, when Mr Abdelwahab tries to tell us that Israel is “ethnically cleansing Christianity from Gaza,” I know that he’s lying through his scummy teeth.

Olive tree planted by Pope Paul VI in the Garden of Gethsemane, photo by D R Pico, November 2022. Click to enlarge.

The complaint, which notes other posts linking Christianity and Islam, alleges both Abdelwahab and the club “seek to align the Christian and Muslim population against the Jewish/Israeli population by using ‘blood libel,’” a centuries-old false accusation claiming Jews murder Christians for ritual purposes.

Abdelwahab said in an interview last week that the club had issued an apology for the post that referred to “usurping Jews,” which he said was posted “accidentally.” Students run the account, but Abdelwahab is supposed to approve posts, he said, and “I apologize for not catching it.”

He also said the post was “referring to the IDF [Israel Defense Forces], those perpetrating the crimes against humanity … It wasn’t just saying, all Jews, or anything like that.”

The post about Easter, he said, was meant as “an olive-branch extension” on the holiday, “showing some empathy” to Christian Palestinians. The post was “by no means meant to single out Jewish kids in any way,” said Abdelwahab, 35, who has taught in the district for five years.

Do you believe his lame excuses? I certainly do not, and no objective person could. But a previous article noted:

Teachers’ speech has been controversial in Central Bucks in recent years. The new Democrat-led board recently rolled back a policy enacted by the previous Republican majority that barred teachers from advocating to students about “partisan, political or social policy issues.” The measure was criticized as targeting Pride flags and support for LGBTQ students.

It seems that the Republicans were right, and the Democrats wrong. Of course the school should not have been showing either support or hostility to homosexual or transgender students; that should have always been outside of their area of responsibility. And now the school district has a teacher and faculty adviser for the Muslim Student Association advocating anti-Semitism and anti-Israeli policies, and supporting Hamas. On October 10, 2023, three days after Hamas’ attack on Israel, Mr Abdelwahab posted, “When people are occupied, resistance is justified!”

Are murder and systematic rape “resistance”?

We have our First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and peaceable assembly, and Mr Abdelwahab has an absolute right to say any stupid thing he wants. But the public schools have what is essentially a captive audience, and teachers should not be free to use their positions to advocate for any particular political position among students.