Elite $50,000/year school tied to UN rocked by antisemitism scandal
An elite private school affiliated with the United Nations confiscated dozens of middle-school yearbooks filled with swastikas and other hate imagery — the latest antisemitism scandal to rock the $50,000-a-year Manhattan institution, The Post has learned
The United Nations International School in Turtle Bay sent a letter to parents Wednesday announcing it confiscated the yearbooks that also contained racist language and launched an investigation to determine “consequences” for those involved.
The school said it discovered “hate speech, including swastikas and antisemitic, xenophobic, racist, and homophobic remarks” in the “autograph” section of multiple yearbooks.
In the letter, the school — which counts actress Pauline Chalamet, former Knicks player Joakim Noah and former President George H.W. Bush’s daughter Dorothy Bush as grads — encouraged students to come forward and identify those responsible, calling on “upstanders” to report their classmates.
Overall, 15 students have been identified as potentially involved in the incident involving more than 30 yearbooks. School officials said all confiscated yearbooks will be “destroyed” once the investigation is completed.
UNIS spokesperson Lupe Todd-Medina told The Post that the school canceled Wednesday’s 8th grade school dance for 130 students, but it wasn’t a “punishment.”
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