Great Neck South under fire for ‘horrific’ image; school says it takes Holocaust education seriously.
Amy Sara Clark, Staff Writer, The Jewish Week
A heavily Jewish Great Neck high school has come under scrutiny after someone posted a “horrific” anti-Semitic image on the freshman class’ Facebook page.
The image is of two young children, one of whom has been Photoshopped so that he has a Hitler-style mustache and Nazi armband. Above his head it says, “I’d rather be gassing Jews right now.”
Officials from Great Neck South High School and the district said in a public letter that the Facebook page is not under the auspices of the school, but that as soon as they learned of the posting on Sunday they immediately took action to get it removed.
The student who is suspected of having posted the image attends John F. Kennedy High School in Plainview, 15 miles away on Long Island, a Plainview school official confirmed.
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