The list of outrages includes a student group chanting “Kill the Jews” during an anti-Israel protest.By Dion J. Pierre, The AlgemeinerThe Anti-Defamation League on Tuesday filed a federal civil rights complaint against the Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) in Boulder, Colorado, reporting to the US Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights that district officials ignored a Jewish middle school student’s harrowing tribulation of antisemitic bullying and physical abuse.Even as BVSD students subjected the victim to games of “Jew touch tag,” said they feel that Jews are “contaminated,” and, in one case, dragged the Jewish student by the neck with a makeshift lasso while calling him a “k—ke,” school officials took no action, the ADL alleged.So hostile is the middle school’s climate, the ADL added, that a student openly told the victim that “Hitler should have killed all the Jews” during the Holocaust.“The record here is overwhelming: Written pleas from the students’ parents, formal school reports, and a police investigation all point to the conclusion that antisemitic harassment at Southern Hills Middle School was pervasive, escalating, and severe,” James Pasch, the ADL’s vice president for litigation, said in a statement.“No family should have to fight this hard to ensure a Jewish child’s safety at school, and certainly no Jewish student should face the threat of assault or harassment because of their Jewish identity.”ADL Mountain States regional director Susan Rona added, “Schools should be places where all students are protected and their heritage is respected, not where they face assault and harassment because of who they are.”In Tuesday’s complaint, the ADL asked the Office for Civil Rights to determine whether BVSD’s alleged inertia violated Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and to issue corrective guidance should it reach a guilty finding.Historically, OCR can take up to several months to respond to a filing.It is generally considered progress for the alleged victim if, at that time, the agency elects to open a “formal” investigation into the alleged discrimination.Litigation and other legal action related to antisemitic incidents in K-12 schools has surged since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, a massacre that triggered a barrage of antisemitic hate crimes throughout the US and the world.The list of outrages includes a student group chanting “Kill the Jews” during an anti-Israel protest and partisan activists smuggling far-left, anti-Zionist content into classrooms without clearing the content with parents and other stakeholders.In California’s Berkeley United School District (BUSD), teachers have allegedly used their classrooms to promote antisemitic stereotypes about Israel, weaponizing disciplines such as art and history to convince unsuspecting minors that Israel is a “settler-colonial” apartheid state committing a genocide of Palestinians.While this took place, high level BUSD officials were accused of ignoring complaints about discrimination and tacitly approving hateful conduct even as it spread throughout the student body.At Berkeley High School, for example, a history teacher forced students to explain why Israel is an apartheid state and screened an anti-Zionist documentary, according to a lawsuit filed in 2024 by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and the ADL.The teacher allegedly squelched dissent, telling a Jewish student who raised concerns about the content of her lessons that only anti-Zionist narratives matter in her classroom and that any other which argues that Israel isn’t an apartheid state is “laughable.”Elsewhere in the school, an art teacher, whose name is redacted from the complaint for matters of privacy, displayed anti-Israel artworks in his classroom, one of which showed a fist punching through a Star of David.In another lawsuit filed just weeks ago, Eden Horowitz, a female Jewish student from Alameda County in California, alleged that the San Leandro Unified School District (SLUSD) stood down while students and instructors at the Social Justice Academy of San Leandro High School tormented her for nearly three years.One teacher, Erica Viray Santos, led the movement against her, the complaint charged. In class, Santos made a show of accusing Israel of “genocide” and proclaimed that she would not teach key units on the Holocaust.Allegedly, Santos also publicly paraded her contempt for Horowitz, denouncing her in arguments with the school’s principal that she initiated within earshot of the class. Meanwhile, her classmates began calling her a “Zionist” and a “racist.”The post ADL files civil rights complaint against Colorado school district alleging antisemitic abuse appeared first on World Israel News.