The teachers have stated openly that they aim to mold their third-grade students into ‘social justice warriors.’
By Vered Weiss, World Israel News
Two Brooklyn public elementary school teachers are using anti-Israel propaganda in their lessons and are going so far as to twist beloved childhood songs and rhymes with lyrics that encourage the destruction of the Jewish State, the New York Post has reported.
Guiseppe Rebuadengo and Anna Battaglia who teach at PS 705 in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn have stated openly that they aim to mold their third-grade students into “social justice warriors.”
One of their tactics is to alter nursery rhymes and kids’ songs and add anti-Israel lyrics.
One of their songs is a time-honored 1939 children’s tune, “The Wheels on the Bus” transformed into a Palestinian resistance anthem called “The Wheels on the Tank.”
The song has the lyrics, “The wheels on the tanks go round and round, all through the town.”
It continues, “The people in the town they hold their ground, and never back down,” with illustrations of Gazan children throwing rocks at Palestinian tanks.
The song goes on, “The bombs in the air go whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, all through the skies.”
“From every river to every sea the people cry, cry, cry. Free Palestine till the wheels on the tanks fall off.”
The lyrics to the song were written by Woke Kindergarten founder Akeia Gross.
Woke Kindergarten’s website describes Israel as a “made-up place” with “settlers called Zionists who are harming and killing people.”
According to NYC Public Schools Alliance, the halls of PS 705 are painted with watermelons, which are a symbol of Palestinian resistance.
Guiseppe Rebuadengo wrote on his Facebook status in 2020, “It is our duty as educators to ensure that our students, your children, our future, become social justice warriors working towards meaningful change in their community.”
Anna Battaglia writes on LinkedIn that she feels her duty as an educator is to “address the dynamics of oppression and privilege and recognizes that society is the product of historically rooted and socially constructed group lines that include intersections of race, class, and gender.”