The Red-Green Alliance Newsrael News Desk DEC 4, 2025
NYC principal denies request for Holocaust survivor to speak at school: ‘Given his messages’
NEW YORK POST -- A Brooklyn middle-school principal denied a parent’s request to have a Holocaust survivor speak to students about antisemitism — saying the victim’s pro-Israel views are not appropriate for a public school.
MS 447 Principal Arin Rusch wrote to the parent Nov. 18 claiming Nazi labor-camp survivor Sami Steigmann’s opinions would not be “right” for the Boerum Hill school.
“I’d love to explore other speakers,” she said — insisting that lectures about the Holocaust — the Nazis’ slaughter of 6 million Jews during World War II — and combatting antisemitism are still welcome.
Steigmann, 85, does not discuss the Israel-Hamas war on his home page or in his bio.
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