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“Academic freedom does not include platforming terrorists,” the LawFare Project stated, calling the event “institutional normalization of terrorism.”
Kimberly Richey, assistant secretary for civil rights at the U.S. Department of Education, stated that “no child should be taught by his or her teachers to hate their peers.”
After online radicalization, the man made two attempts to fly to Somalia to support ISIS, according to prosecutors.
The assessment calls for the return of Palestinian Authority governance and efforts to “advance a durable political settlement based on the two-state solution.”
An investigation into a swastika drawn by a teen in a Syosset high school bathroom led police to discover chemicals and explosive materials purchased by his father.
The 18 year old allegedly worked with two other unknown individuals, who have not yet been apprehended.