‘Victims Becoming the Perpetrators’: Remarks about Jews at Elite Private School Spark Outrage – By Washington Free Beacon Staff (Free Beacon) / Nov 26 2019
ADL blasts Kayum Ahmed’s address to high schoolers at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School
Remarks by a guest speaker at an elite New York City private school who charged that Jews have fallen into a historical cycle in which the oppressed become the oppressor have sparked internal controversy—and elicited the condemnation of the Anti-Defamation League.
Addressing high school students at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School last Thursday, A. Kayum Ahmed, the director of access and accountability at the Open Society Foundations and a former CEO of the South African Human Rights Commission, said he had observed “the fluidity of those who are victims becoming the perpetrators.”
“I use the same example in talking about the Holocaust, that Jews who suffered in the Holocaust and established the state of Israel today perpetuate violence against Palestinians that are unthinkable,” Ahmed said.
Though Ethical Culture Fieldston is among the most liberal of New York City’s elite private schools—the school says it is committed to providing students a “progressive education” and a series of “Awareness Days” on issues like “Undoing ‘Slut’ Shaming and Sexual Bullying”—Ahmed’s remarks sparked outrage from some students and parents.
A spokeswoman for Fieldston declined to comment.
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