Parents left outraged after 'hostile' Muslim students tell Jewish classmates: 'Jerusalem is ours'

However, Jewish parents were left furious after a booth run by Muslim Students of America was seen distributing Palestinian headscarves to staff and students, showing off anti-Israel imagery and displaying provocative slogans such as "Jerusalem is ours".

Wissahickon School District mother Lynn Simon said: "My child came home shaken and unsure of whether it’s even safe to speak up as a Jew at school."

Photos on Instagram show the district’s superintendent, Dr Mwenyewe Dawan, alongside assistant superintendent Sean Gardiner.

The school’s principal, Dr Lynne Blair, also shared images from the event on the school’s official social media pages, which have since been taken down.

Ms Simon fumed: "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 and 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 marginalised. We demand accountability, not photo ops."

North American Values Institute director Steve Rosenberg told Fox News: "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 normalised 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."

Dozens of Jewish parents have sent a letter to Wissahickon High School to voice concerns about the culture fair, saying their children had seen things which "crossed clear educational and ethical boundaries".

The letter, sent to Superintendent Dawan, read: "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.

"Multiple students reported that you spent time at the Muslim Student Association table, and did not halt the intimidating and inappropriate behaviour.

"For many Jewish students, this was not experienced as a cultural gesture - it was experienced as political signalling from the highest authority in the district.

"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 Jewish parents recommended five measures for the school to take action, including a public statement on the school district's involvement in distributing keffiyehs and the social media posts.

It also urged for organisers to release the "planning framework" for the event, including information on how the booths were approved.

The letter requests the district to outline "clear guidelines" to address how they will make sure cultural events do not deviate into "political advocacy".

Parents also requested the school to host a "listening session" for Jewish parents and students to greater understand how the booths impacted them.

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