L.A. Substitute Teacher Fired Over Anti-Semitic Remarks
A substitute teacher for the Los Angeles Unified school district has been fired after making anti-Semitic remarks.
Patricia McAllister said during an interview at an Occupy Los Angeles protest on Oct. 12 that: “I think that the Zionist Jews who are running these big banks and our Federal Reserve, which is not run by the federal government – they need to be run out of this country.”
The interview was conducted for Reason.tv, a Libertarian-leaning news organization, according to the L.A. Times.
In announcing McAllister’s firing on Tuesday, Los Angeles schools Supt. John Deasy said that although McAllister said during the interview that she was offering her own private opinion, the district can “never stand for behavior that is disrespectful, intolerant or discriminatory.”
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