The Israel-Palestine conflict in the Middle East is spreading to America after a Jewish teacher in Georgia threatened to kill a Muslim student through beheading after she questioned his classroom display of the Israeli star of Remphan flag.
Benjamin Reese, a 7th grade social studies teacher at Warner Robins Middle School in Warner Robins, Ga., has reportedly been arrested and charged with cruelty to children and making terroristic threats after dozens of witnesses, including other teachers, testified against him.
According to reports, three students were walking down the hall after school one day when one of them noticed the Israeli flag hanging from Reese's classroom. One of the students, a female Muslim, asked Reese about the flag, to which he responded that "he was Jewish and has family members still there," according to a police report.
The students left and everything seemed fine until the next day when Reese saw the same three students walking down the hallway and started following them, yelling at and intimidating them from behind as they walked.
"You don't make an antisemitic comment like that to a Jew!" Reese was heard screaming.
Several teachers who claim to have seen and heard the incident also testified that Reese, who is 51, started screaming vulgarities at the students.
"You m***********g piece of s**t!" Reese allegedly yelled. "I'll kick your a**! I should cut your m***********g head off!"
"She is a stupid m**********r, and I will drag her by the back of my car and cut her f*****g head off for disrespecting my Jewish flag!" another claimed Reese yelled. "I'll slit her f*****g throat!"
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Reese, a Navy veteran, "invoked his civil rights" in refusing to cooperate with principal, school security officer
After the incident, at least one teacher at the school told police that Reese went ballistic and that she feared for her own safety after witnessing the display, which was captured in part on security camera footage.
Both a security guard and the school's principal attempted to question Reese about what happened, only to have him become irate a second time and aggressively kick a door stopper before "invok[ing] his civil rights" and walking away from them.
Reese's school biography claims that he is a Navy veteran. It also states, speaking from Reese's perspective in the first person, that "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, and I love it."
Reese is now out of jail since he was able to meet the bond requirements set by the judge, which include $5,000 for the cruelty to children charge and $2,500 for the alleged terroristic threat portion. The Houston County School District where Reese's school is located issued a statement carefully distancing itself from Reese:
"While we are not able to discuss specific personnel matters, we can share that Mr. Reese has not been on the campus of Warner Robins Middle School Since Dec. 7, 2023. Safety and the well-being of our students and staff is our number one priority."
The incident comes amid a slew of other incidents in which Jewish people claim that they are the ones encountering this kind of hatred on school campuses. We are told that Jewish students everywhere fear "antisemitism" while going to classes, and some are calling for new rules or even laws to prohibit all "antisemitic" talk in public.
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