DOE hired ex-‘Intifada High’ principal’s group for staff workshops on Israel-Hamas war

The city Department of Education has inexplicably tapped a group headed by the notorious former “Intifada High” principal to lead school-staff workshops on handling the Israel-Hamas war in the classroom, infuriated teachers told The Post. 

Debbie Almontaser now pulls in hundreds of thousands of dollars in city contracts with her consulting firm Bridging Cultures Group, which on June 6 led professional development training sessions at at least 10 city public schools, teachers said.

In a workshop titled “Facilitating Courageous Conversations,” a pair of Jewish and Muslim facilitators discussed lesson plans for how to teach and guide students on discussing the ongoing war, but Jewish teachers seethed that the training material was slanted against Israel.

Sharon Malkin, an art teacher at Horace Greeley IS 10Q in Astoria, Queens, said one slide in the presentation described the Oct. 7 attack on the Jewish state and 8-month bombardment of Gaza as “emotionally traumatizing” — but made no mention of 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas nor missile strikes launched at Israel by Iran and terror groups.

In a second workshop, a Jewish lecturer who had posted photos on Facebook with a Palestinian flag sticker snickered before providing her group data on the 1,200 Jewish deaths on Oct. 7 compared to over 37,000 Palestinian deaths over the past eight months, according to Malkin and a video recording of the training.

“Where do you think people are going to fall on that, especially people that don’t have any facts,” Malkin said, adding that her school’s principal apologized and canceled additional Bridging Culture’s workshops planned for the next day.