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Wissahickon High School in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, has come under well-deserved criticism after it was revealed that the Muslim Student Association was allowed to display pro-terrorist messaging and propaganda at the school cultural fair.

Located in a suburb of Philadelphia, Wissahickon holds an annual Language and Culture Fair which took place on November 24^th of last year. Amid the colorful booths dedicated to the Jewish Student Union and the Italian Club, the school chapter of the Muslim Students Association chose to politicize their booth and use it to propagandize for Hamas and the destruction of the Jewish state.

The MSA booth featured numerous large Palestinian flags that dwarfed all other messaging, including one hung vertically behind the booth and another running horizontally along the full length of the table used for the display. The posterboard background for the booth featured another Palestinian flag with only tiny images of flags from numerous Muslim countries below, indicating a disturbing emphasis on the Hamas-led region which invaded and massacred over a thousand innocent Israelis on October 7, instead of the approximately 50 Muslim-majority nations in the world.

Several students at the booth were wearing keffiyehs, black and white checked scarfs that are closely associated with Hamas terrorism. Other students visiting the booth, many of whom were unaware of the keffiyeh’s symbolic meaning, were encouraged to try on the pro-terror accoutrement for themselves. Rewards for playing games at the booth, including candy and small amounts of money, were offered to entice students to approach.

Even more disturbing was the shawl adorning one student whose Arabic caption stated, “Jerusalem is Ours,” a political claim denying Israel’s historic ties to the Jewish people and signaling support for Hamas’s genocidal intentions to annihilate the Jewish state.

Instead of halting this despicable display of pro-terrorist sentiment, school administrators who were present at the festival made no objection whatsoever. Wissahickon High School Principal Dr. Lynne Blair even posed for photos at the booth which were shared on her official school social media account. District Superintendent, Mwenyewe Dawan, and Assistant Superintendent, Sean Gardiner, were also present at the event and posted photos of the booth without raising any objections.

“My child came home shaken and unsure of whether it’s even safe to speak up as a Jew at school,” Lynn Simon, the parent of a child in the district, told Fox News.

While Jewish students were disturbed by the pro-terror MSA booth, the school’s initial messaging about the fair gave no indication of any controversy. “Shoutout to the WHS World Language Department on another fabulous Language & Culture Fair!” cheered a Facebook post on the school district’s official account. “Student affinity groups joined the fair, highlighting the many ways students can connect, build community, and learn together. What an amazing day of discovery and celebration!”

The post from the school district noted that not only high schoolers but also elementary school and middle school students participated in the fair, exposing students as young as ten to the politicized content.

The school district’s tone only changed after dozens of Jewish parents co-signed a letter to District Superintendent Dawan charging that the MSA booth “crossed clear educational and ethical boundaries.”

“Students visiting the Muslim Student Association booth were encouraged to wear keffiyehs, a symbol that in the current global climate is widely associated not only with cultural heritage but with political movements, hostility toward Israel, and in many contexts open expressions of anti-Jewish sentiment,” stated the letter, which charged that Dawan spent a large amount of time at the MSA booth yet took no action to impede the intimidation of Jewish students that was occurring in front of her.

“For many Jewish students, this was not experienced as a cultural gesture — it was experienced as political signaling from the highest authority in the district,” the letter added.

As for the scarf claiming “Jerusalem is Ours,” the Jewish parents correctly labeled it a “political claim that denies Jewish history, identity, and connection to Israel’s capital” noting that “This is messaging commonly used in extremist and anti-normalization movements.”

“For a school leader to publicly endorse this imagery, even indirectly, is profoundly inappropriate and sends a chilling message to Jewish students: your history and identity are contested here, and the people in authority are comfortable amplifying those who contest it,” the letter stated.

Forced by the letter and resulting media coverage to confront the allegations, Superintendent Dawan issued a lengthy statement, acknowledging that “Several parents and community members reported that certain images and activities at the fair were antisemitic, and shared that some of our Jewish students feel unsafe or marginalized” but immediately countering this narrative by claiming that the resulting conversations “have become inflammatory and included threats toward students and staff” which “has resulted in some of our Muslim students reporting that they are feeling unsafe or marginalized.”

Dawan continued to parrot this “both sides” narrative, stating that “for many elements of the fair, multiple realities can coexist. A symbol that may reflect cultural pride and belonging for some may evoke pain, fear, or political association for others.”

It will likely surprise no one that Wissahickon is the same school district that was recently forced to fire one of its elementary school principals after he was accidentally recorded on a parent’s voicemail expressing blatantly anti-Semitic sentiments including “They have that Jew money” and “They control the banks, y’know.”

The U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce is currently investigating the neighboring Philadelphia school district to determine “whether there was or is a hostile environment against Jewish K-12 students.” Given recent events in the Wissahickon district, the committee ought to expand their focus to include Philly’s neighbor to the north.