DID you hear the one about the Muslim school led by a Jew?
Suffice it to say, it won’t have long for this world.
This might be the worst joke ever to hit Brooklyn. Desperate to save its fast-sinking Khalil Gibran International Academy, the Department of Education yesterday named a new principal to replace Debbie “Intifada is Good” Almontaser - who resigned in disgrace before the school opened its doors.
Two things you need to know about the “interim acting” head of the school, whose stated goal is to educate Arab students and sympathizers from grades 6 though 12.
No. 1: The new principal speaks no Arabic.
No. 2: She is a member of the tribe. A Jewess.
Danielle Salzberg is walking into a minefield created by her predecessor, who defended the sale of T-shirts bearing the slogan “Intifada NYC” by stupidly defining the word “intifada” not as the spilling of Jewish blood - but as the benign “shaking off” of oppression.
What was not addressed - even as the Gibran Academy has been revealed as a potential hotbed of anti-Semitic and anti-American sentiment - is why the devil the place was cooked up in the first place. Some bright combination of political correctness and insane guilt has determined that New York needs a public school catering to Arabs.
As she stormed out the door and Salzberg tiptoed in, Almontaser made herself into the poor victim of a hate crime, lashing out at her critics.
Perhaps the Ed Department believes that putting a token Chosen Person at the helm of a rotten organization will save it.
A better question is: Why does the city need a Khalil Gibran Academy?
Using the public schools to segregate Muslim students seems antithetical to every societal ideal.
The city does not need it.
