A nationwide Jewish authorized rights group is calling on the Trump administration to probe the metropolis Department of Education over reports mother and father are pulling their youngsters out of public colleges because of rampant antisemitism.
The National Jewish Advocacy Center filed a request with the Department of Justice Monday, citing proof outlined in Post tales starting in the aftermath of the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attacks on Israel.
Enrollment at Jewish colleges or yeshivas has elevated while the pupil inhabitants in public colleges has declined in latest years, said the letter despatched to Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, who heads the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
PS 77 in Park Slope is pictured. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post
“Parents of Jewish children who attend, or were driven from, the Board’s [NYC Board of Education/Department of Education] schools, and Jewish employees of the Board, are prepared to be interviewed,” said the grievance, addressed to Assistant AG Harmeet Dhillon, who heads the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division.
There are two pending federal probes regarding the Big Apple’s public faculty system.
In April, the Trump administration’s Education Department launched a civil rights probe into the metropolis DOE concerning a pro-Palestinian group of educators, NYC Educators for Palestine, for organizing a sequence of Israel-bashing classes “focused on ‘Palestine, Zionism, and Resistance.’”
“No child should be taught by his or her teachers to hate their peers,” said US Department of Education Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Kimberly Richey at the time.
Another federal civil rights “shared ancestry” investigation into the DOE was initiated in November 2023.
PS 77 Park Sple instructor Damien Neva posted “Long live Yahya al-Sinwar” in a Signal chat back in 2024. Diana/BFAnyc.com
Neva was featured on a Post cowl earlier in October.
The letter calling for another probe cited a report by United Jewish Teachers, a group of Jewish educators employed by NYC Public Schools, in August claiming at least 250 antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents in the colleges since Oct. 7, 2023,
It also pointed to latest instances, citing Brooklyn PS 77 Park Slope instructor Damien Neva, who overtly posted in a 2024 Signal group chat, “Long live Yahya al-Sinwar,” according to a new authorized submitting against the Park Slope Co-Op. Al-Sinwar is the Hamas chief who orchestrated the 10/7 bloodbath.
Meanwhile, George Trim, a social research instructor at IS 181 in Bath Beach, Brooklyn, was disciplined for allegedly telling college students that World Trade Center proprietor Larry Silverstein knew the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks were coming and did nothing to cease them.
The letter famous that enrollment in Jewish day colleges and yeshivas in New York State rose by 3,115 college students in the 2025-26 faculty 12 months, and in the metropolis alone by 1,587, while nonpublic enrollment fell.
The National Jewish Advocacy Center has requested the Trump admin to probe the metropolis’s Department of Education. National Jewish Advocacy Center
Mark Goldfederr, CEO of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, said the Justice Department’s energy is wanted to clamp down on Jew hatred.
A spokesperson for the Justice Department said, “The Department takes allegations of antisemitism seriously and is committed to enforcing federal civil rights laws that protect students from discrimination.”
The metropolis DOE and Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s workplace didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
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