A middle school teacher in the United States threatened to behead a 13-year-old Muslim student after she expressed alarm at the Israeli flag he brought to class.
The American network “CNN” reported, on Thursday, that the police recently arrested the Jew Benjamin Reese (51 years old), a seventh-grade teacher in a middle school in the American state of Georgia (southeast), because he threatened to behead a Muslim student, after the latter expressed that she did not… Her comfort with Israeli science in the classroom.
The incident report issued by the authorities stated that the threat occurred on December 7, and that the teacher also directed insults at 3 female students.
Local media reported that the teacher was released on bail of $7,500.
Increasing targeting of Muslims
As the Israeli aggression continues Gaza strip since operation Al-Aqsa flood Launched by the Palestinian resistance on October 7, cases of targeting Muslims in the United States escalated.
In mid-October, a man in Illinois stabbed a Muslim child 26 times, killing him, while seriously wounding his mother, while chanting anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian statements.
The police accused the man (71 years old) of committing a hate crime against the child Wadih Al-Fayoumi (6 years old) and his mother (32 years old), saying that the two victims were targeted because of their Islamic faith, in the context of the war that Israel is waging against the Palestinians.
Last November 25, 3 students of Palestinian origin were subjected to an armed attack in the US state of Vermont.
The families of the victims issued a joint statement urging the authorities to investigate the shooting as a hate crime, which was also called for by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (Care) has confirmed that he has observed a significant increase in incidents motivated by hostility to Islam (Islamophobia) in the United States, since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Flood Battle and the war on Gaza.
The Council added that it received 774 complaints about incidents motivated by Islamophobia and bias against Palestinians and Arabs, within the United States between October 7 and 24 alone.
CARE continued that this is the highest rate since 2015, explaining that this number is equivalent to approximately 3 times the average number of complaints compared to the same period in 2022.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations noted that an 18-year-old Palestinian was assaulted in Brooklyn, in addition to death threats received at a mosque, and the stabbing death of a Muslim child, Wadih Al-Fayoumi, in Illinois.
For its part, the Anti-Defamation League said that its preliminary data showed a 388% increase in “anti-Semitism” incidents in the United States between October 7 and 23.
