A Palm Beach County elementary school teacher will not be disciplined after she sent a letter to School Board officials asking them to "publicly recognize the Palestinian community" in their communications about the Israel-Hamas war and posted a photo that featured the slogan "from the river to the sea" on her personal Facebook page.
The teacher was given a written directive by her principal to "be mindful of how the public may see and/or misconstrue your message if you post it on a public-facing forum." The photo she reposted to her page included the pro-Palestinian slogan that Israel’s supporters say is antisemitic and a call to destroy the state of Israel.
School district investigators found that the teacher had "no apparent intent to spread any hateful rhetoric," by posting the photo, and that her classroom instruction to her students was not affected by it. They interviewed 13 students in the teacher's fourth- and fifth-grade classes and 12 of her colleagues in their investigation.