FROM THE NEW "CROTON NEWS" SITE---ANTISEMITISM, FREE SPEECH, AND THE DEFINITION THAT DIVIDED CROTON

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FROM THE NEW "CROTON NEWS" SITE----AS ALWAYS, DO YOUR OWN DUE DILIGENCE.....



In May 2024, community members encountered a Palestine booth as one of the cultures represented at Croton-Harmon school Cultural Night. For some families in the district, the materials at the booth were a breaking point — not an isolated incident, but a culmination of years of concern about antisemitism in the schools.

What followed was a year-long effort to get the school district to formally address antisemitism. That effort became entangled with two separate but related controversies: a bitter debate over how antisemitism should be defined, and a national reckoning over whether schools can maintain diversity and equity policies under a hostile federal administration. MORE AT Antisemitism, Free Speech, and the Definition That Divided Croton — Croton-on-Hudson, NY