A Manhattan pre-K teacher is spreading anti-Israel hatred to the city’s youngest students — and offering parents and teachers tips on indoctrinating kids to her left-wing agenda, educators and insiders told The Post.
Siriana Abboud, 29, a city Department of Education teacher at PS 59 in Midtown, offered social media guidance on how to talk to 4-year-olds about “land theft, displacement and ethnic cleansing.”
He encouraged parents to take them to pro-Palestinian protests – while blasting Israel as a “fascist ethnostate” in his Instagram stories, even after the October 7 terror attack by Hamas terrorists.
Abboud’s exclusive “teach-in” for educators and activists covers Palestine, Zionism, and the “struggle against colonialism”. He preaches online that “teaching cannot be radical or revolutionary, as long as you deny the ongoing and violent occupation of Palestine by Zionism” and that early education can be “a tool for liberation.”
“Justice-informed teaching means breaking the power imbalance given to me as a classroom teacher,” he said, and that “we are not teaching the truth if we are silent about Palestine.”
PS 59 pre-K teacher Siriana Abboud has used her public social media page, which also promotes her consulting business, to criticize Israel, including through posts like the one above calling it a “fascist ethnostate.” Instagram @sirianajanine
On Abboud’s Instagram page there are pastel-colored posts about the “genocidal state of Israel” and recommended resources, including a “shoutout” to the website Decolonize Palestine, described as a self-funded independent project founded by two people in Ramallah, in the West Bank. It celebrated the anniversary of the first violent “intifada” riots in 1987 in a release and said it was “well remembered.”
A guide on how to talk to children about Palestine suggests comparing it to European colonization, police brutality in the US, or how “some people want to build a wall in the US to keep families away.”
Abboud organizes an exclusive “teaching” for educators and activists to learn and “blame” about Palestine.google
“There is already a wall in Palestine that hurts the Palestinian people,” a post “pinned” at the top of the teacher’s Instagram page said.
“This is exactly the kind of anti-Jewish culture that people are seeing all over the DOE,” said an employee who works closely with Abboud and was “shocked” by the extent of the vitriol on his colleague’s page.
“These people shape the minds of young children and literally indoctrinate children from preschool age.”
Abboud’s side hustle, Allisio Academy, provides home curriculum for children and consultations, resource recommendations and workshops for parents and teachers.allusioacademy.com
Abboud also runs a side activity, Allisio Academy, an online business that provides home curriculum for children and consultations, webinars and workshops for parents and teachers. A live class costs $55, a personalized daily schedule for $45 and a consulting package with resources and strategies for $75.
Her book recommendations include “The Arabic Quilt” by Aya Khalil and “P Is for Palestine” by Golbarg Bashi.
In a 2021 post on the Allisio Academy Facebook page, Abboud wrote that it was “a brutal history of rape that was used to establish the state of Israel.”
Abboud was recognized by Department of Education “stakeholders” earlier this year as a “liberation-inspired educator” who centers a “global consciousness.”
He also argued on the page that Palestine is a “children’s issue” and not too political to teach preschoolers.
But some Jewish parents are scared by the messages they see on his social media.
“His account is full of hate,” a mother who recently transferred her son to PS 59 commented in a parent group. “I’m afraid to send my child there.”
“He perpetuates a distorted narrative that blames Israel and ‘Zionism’ — the Jewish people’s right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland, for atrocities the Palestinians may have committed against Israel,” antisemitic watchdog group Canary Mission told The Post.
Starting this year, Abboud, who earns $70,000 a year with the DOE, according to city records, is in a position to indoctrinate other teachers as well.
Last spring, he was selected as the 2023-24 early childhood recipient of the coveted Big Apple Award, which begins with nominations from the school community but is ultimately determined by DOE stakeholders. That earned him a spot on the Chancellor’s Teacher Advisory Council and gave him a fellowship that included engaging with leadership in policy and programs and sharing teaching practices with colleagues.
“Teaching cannot be radical or revolutionary, as long as you deny the ongoing and violent occupation of Palestine by Zionism,” Manhattan pre-K teacher Siriana Abboud said on social media. Instagram @sirianajanine
Abboud’s Big Apple Award bio hails him as a “liberation-inspired educator” who centers a “global consciousness”.
Abboud was a student teacher under Kara Ahmed, now DOE Deputy Chancellor of Early Childhood Education, when Ahmed became principal of the Living for the Young Family Through Education program in 2016.
Aside from posts about the Middle East, Abboud has taken on other left-leaning issues such as avoiding gender terms like “boy and girl” in the classroom and embracing the use of anatomically correct phrases for body parts.
In addition to a guide to discussing war in the Middle East, Abboud covers issues of gender and anatomy.instagram @sirianajanine
“Way to go! You’re teaching your child the word ‘vagina.’ Maybe you were more anatomically correct and taught them to say ‘vulva,'” she began one post. “But what do you say, if anything, about labia and clitoris?”
Abboud and a DOE spokeswoman did not respond to requests for comment.
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