{"id":1444342,"date":"2023-12-17T01:15:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1444342"},"modified":"2023-12-17T01:15:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T06:15:00","slug":"jewish-teacher-charged-for-threat-to-behead-muslim-girl-who-said-israel-flag-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/jewish-teacher-charged-for-threat-to-behead-muslim-girl-who-said-israel-flag-offensive\/1444342\/","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Teacher Charged For Threat To Behead Muslim Girl Who Said Israel Flag Offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Jewish Teacher Charged For Threat To Behead Muslim Girl Who Said Israel Flag Offensive<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><strong>A Jewish Georgia middle school teacher has been arrested for threatening to kill a Muslim middle school student who took offense at the Israel flag displayed in his classroom.\u00a0<\/strong>He&#8217;s been charged with cruelty to children and making terroristic threats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to accounts collected from more than 20 witnesses &#8212; including other teachers &#8212; 7th-grade social studies teacher Benjamin Reese went into a rage on the afternoon of Dec. 7th at Warner Robins Middle School.\u00a0<strong>Three students say they were walking down the hall after school when one noticed a flag of the State of Israel <\/strong>in Reese&#8217;s classroom and asked him why it was on display.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/middle-school-teacher-arrested-allegedly-73774293.jpeg?itok=1q_k6TFx\"><strong>Witnesses say Benjamin Reese went into a mad rage when a student said his Israel flag was offensive\u00a0<\/strong>(<em>Warner Robins Middle School<\/em>)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the student&#8217;s account recorded in a police report reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.13wmaz.com\/article\/news\/local\/warner-robins\/new-details-in-warner-robins-teacher-charged-with-terroristic-threats-and-cruelty-to-children\/93-66334447-a1d9-4e3a-beb9-8cb300595d35\"><em>13WMAZ<\/em><\/a>, Reese said &#8220;he was Jewish and has family members still there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/12\/14\/us\/georgia-teacher-arrested-threatening-muslim-student-israeli-flag\/index.html\">female Muslim student<\/a> told Reese the country&#8217;s flag was &#8220;offensive due to Israelis killing Palestinians&#8221; <\/strong>in the Israeli-Hamas war, which caused him to become angry and call her antisemitic.<\/p>\n<p>They left and Reese followed the three down the hallway, yelling at them along the way.<\/p>\n<p>The mildest quote: <strong>&#8220;You don&#8217;t make an antisemitic comment like that to a Jew!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>However, several teachers say the 51-year-old Reese also unleashed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/12\/14\/us\/georgia-teacher-arrested-threatening-muslim-student-israeli-flag\/index.html\">vivid threats of violence<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;You motherfucking piece of shit! I&#8217;ll kick your ass! I should cut your motherfucking head off!&#8221; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cShe is a stupid\u00a0motherf***er, and I will drag her by the back of my car and cut her f***ing head off for disrespecting my Jewish flag!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;ll slit her fucking throat!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One of the teachers told police that, as Reese went ballistic, she feared for her own safety.\u00a0Security video captured Reese following the students. When <strong>the principal and a school security officer tried to question Reese<\/strong> about the incident, he became agitated and aggressively kicked a door-stopper before &#8220;invok[ing] his civil rights&#8221; and walking away.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been skeptical of claims that Jewish college students are so &#8220;unsafe&#8221; that they need special protections, just as I&#8217;ve been skeptical of that narrative for other groups.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s a student definitely justified in feeling unsafe due to a teacher&#8217;s statements on Israel<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QFsVe8RibP\">pic.twitter.com\/QFsVe8RibP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ggreenwald\/status\/1735698443669065958?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 15, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/wrms.hcbe.net\/benjamin-reese\">biography<\/a> that&#8217;s still posted on the school&#8217;s website, Reese says he&#8217;s a Navy veteran and that &#8220;<strong>over the course of the last 8 years [teaching], I have been challenged far beyond anything 17 years of military service had prepared me for<\/strong>, and I love it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reese is out of jail,<\/strong> having met the bond requirements set by the judge: $5,000 for the cruelty to children charge and $2,500 for the alleged terroristic threat.\u00a0In a statement to <em>13WMAZ<\/em>, the Houston County School District carefully distanced itself from Reese:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>While we are not able to discuss specific personnel matters, <strong>we can share that Mr. Reese has not been on the campus of Warner Robins Middle School since Dec. 7, 2023<\/strong>. Safety and the well-being of our students and staff is our number one priority.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Georgia middle school incident comes alongside allegations that antisemitism is running rampant on college campuses<\/strong>, with Jewish students claiming they feel unsafe and some <a href=\"https:\/\/starkrealities.substack.com\/p\/penn-students-lawsuit-shows-campus\">filing lawsuits charging school administrations<\/a> with breach of contract for failing to bar speech about the Israel-Palestine conflict that they interpret as threatening.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Sat, 12\/16\/2023 &#8211; 20:15<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/jewish-teacher-charged-threatening-behead-muslim-girl-who-said-israel-flag-offensive\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/political\/jewish-teacher-charged-threatening-behead-muslim-girl-who-said-israel-flag-offensive<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jewish Teacher Charged For Threat To Behead Muslim Girl Who Said Israel Flag Offensive A Jewish Georgia middle school teacher has been arrested for threatening&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-63JQ","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1444342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}