Posh Virginia Private School who would have congratulated Hitler expelled three Jewish students who faced anti -Semitic intimidation: complaint

A private school of Northern Virginia celebrated as one of the best in the country would have expelled three Jewish brothers and sisters who underwent an incessant anti -Semitic harassment following the terrorist attack of October 7, 2023 on Israel – all while their community celebrated Hitler as a “strong historic leader”.

The Brandeis Center filed the complaint on behalf of the children of the children, Brian Vazquez and Ashok Roy, against the Nysmith school for the Gifted, a K-8 academy located only an hour from Washington, DC, and its director, Kenneth Nysmith.

The complaint says that the couple’s 11-year-old girl faced an “ostracing campaign” led by a handful of popular students on the unique basis that she is Jewish during the 2024-2025 school year.

The students, in an apparent gross misunderstanding of the conflict, cruelly narrated the daughter for the death of her uncle, telling him that they were happy that he died during the attack on October 7, “according to the complaint.

His uncle died years earlier without any connection with the terrorist attack.

Some students made fun of having “Israeli” and nicknamed the Jews as “baby killers”, saying shamelessly: “They deserve to die because of what is happening in Gaza,” said the complaint.

Others have doubled and insisted that “everyone at school is against the Jews and Israel, which is why they hate you”, according to the complaint.

A college social study project has instructed the students to sketch a drawing of the size of a child, including “six traits of a leader” following their studies on “The Prince” by Niccolo Machiavelli, according to an email from the Nysmith school.

The amalgam of Frankenstein included weapons associated with the leaders of Machiavelli time and of equality generally carried by businessmen or modern politicians.

The face of the drawing, however, represented the face of a man with the undeady teeth of Adolf Hitler and smoothed hair.

Vazquez and Roy reported repeated incidents in Nysmith, who promised to take action. The weeks passed and no modification has been made, according to the complaint.

If anything, all the change quickly moved from the protection of Vazquez’s daughter and Roy when the school canceled his annual speech for the organization of a Holocaust survivor to speak with the student body of anti -Semitism.

Vazquez and Roy had a last meeting with Nysmith on March 11 to explain how harassment degenerated since the school hung up a Palestinian flag in the school gymnasium only after having nixed the speech of the holocaust.

The flag of Palestine was suspended alongside dozens of others for different countries, including Israel. Parents did not take any problems with the flag of Palestine, but feared that some students used it to strengthen their claims that “nobody likes [Jewish people]”Said the complaint.

Nysmith, having apparently disabled, suddenly told the couple that their daughter had to “harden,” said the complaint.

Two days later, the parents received an email from the school informing them of the expulsion of their children, in force immediately despite their constant involvement with the community and the exemplary classes.

“A healthy partnership is necessary to help guide and feed young children through tumultuous moments and current complex events. I don’t see a way to follow without confidence, understanding and cooperation.

Vazquez and Roy never anticipated the expulsion and had already paid tuition fees for the next academic year, said the complaint.

The email of Nysmith noted that the family would receive a check by mail within two weeks for all the costs paid that year and for the following year. It is not known if the check was sent.

“Through [the Nysmith School’s] Actions, the administration has sent a clear message: intimidation is acceptable, as long as it is against Jewish families. We must all imitate the strength of these parents and their children and resist anti -Semitism and its authors, as difficult as it may be, “wrote Kenneth L. Marcus, president of Brandeis Center, in a press release.

The complaint requires compensatory damages for a series of costs such as children’s online courses and the inclusion of anti-Semitism annual training for the Nysmith school community.

Nysmith rejected the allegations and said that the information circulating online is not complete in an email that he transmitted in response to a message asking for comments from the post, in which he also said he was “aware of any legal action involving the school”.