“Blatant Antisemitism”: Marjory Stoneman Douglas Student Describes Anti-Jewish Incidents on Campus

A Jewish student leader at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last Monday detailed multiple instances of hostility toward Jews at the school and criticized administrators for not doing enough to combat anti-Jewish prejudice.

Stoneman Douglas senior Maya Gordon described the antisemitism impacting one of Broward’s top schools during a community symposium, “Standing Together: A Community Response to Antisemitism,” at the David Posnack JCC in Davie.

Gordon’s experiences included seeing a swastika and the phrase “From the river to the sea” scrawled on school bathroom walls, a swastika etched into dirt on a student’s car, and an effort by some students to have their Jewish peers excluded from a multicultural food fair.

“It’s disturbing and appalling to go there and then see all these things,” said Gordon, president of Stoneman Douglas’ Jewish Student Union and School Board Chair Lori Alhadeff’s appointee to Broward County Public Schools’ Human Relations Committee.