US teacher told student offended by Israeli flag he would ‘slit her throat’, police say
Georgia teacher arrested after allegedly saying he would cut student’s head off after she objected to his Israeli flag
A schoolteacher in the US state of Georgia was arrested after allegedly threatening to behead a student who expressed taking offense over his Israeli flag, according to authorities.
Benjamin Reese’s arrest at the middle school named after the town of Warner Robins occurred on after a student approached and told him she was offended by the Israeli flag hanging in his classroom, the local news station WMAZ reported, citing a police account of the case.
Reese, a seventh-grade social studies teacher, allegedly replied that he was a Jew and had relatives who lived in Israel. The student said “Israelis killing Palestinians” made the flag offensive, which prompted Reese to accuse her of being antisemitic.
TIL it's antisemitic when you object to the wholesale slaughter of unarmed civilians.
That isn't even the problem here, IMO. The teacher is entitled to that very stupid opinion. I had, and I'm sure you had, plenty of teachers with very stupid opinions. In general, that's allowed.
What they are not allowed to do is threaten a student.
When stupid opinions lead to threatening to cut off a child's head I tend to lose all sympathy.
We're all learning this valuable lesson these days.