by Ari Hoffman
A Seattle Public Schools history teacher, who is also chair of the school’s social studies department, displays images of terrorists in his classroom and claimed that “Hamas didn’t behead anyone. Hamas didn’t rape anyone,†and that atrocities committed on October 7 by Hamas were actually carried out by the Israel Defense Forces. His profile also includes imagery affiliated with the movement to abolish the police and Antifa. He has also protected his tweets.
Ian Golash teaches “Ethnic Studies World History†to 10th graders at Chief Sealth International High Schools in the Seattle Public School district. He is also chair of the social studies department at the school and the school’s representative for the Seattle Education Association teachers’ union which recently passed a pro-Hamas resolution.
🧵INDOCTRINATION CENTERS FOR HAMAS
Ian Golash is an activist teacher for @SeaPubSchools at Chief Sealth International High School
According to a source at the schools, Golash has pro-Hamas material in the “Hallway and classroomâ€
Posters in the school even feature terrorists pic.twitter.com/t0yGBuwJ00
— Ari Hoffman (@thehoffather) December 12, 2023
In his classroom and in the halls, Golash has hung images of Hamas terrorists along with calls to “Free Gaza” and “Long Live Palestine.”
After the Oct 7 attacks on Israel, during which Hamas terrorists massacred, raped, tortured, and murdered over 1,200 Israelis and took captive over 200 more, Golash wrote on Facebook, “This is what I understand. Correct me if I’m wrong… With evidence, please…On October 7-9…Hamas didn’t behead anyone. Hamas didn’t rape anyone.â€
“The bodies found charred beyond recognition were made that way either by Israeli tanks, missiles or helicopter gunships… Hamas soldiers were not carrying weapons that could do that kind of damage to human bodies…†Golash said.
“A body looks very different once it’s been vaporized by a Hellfire missile or an explosive tank round as opposed to being set on fire with, say gasoline, for example,” Golash said, though the origin of his claimed expertise is unknown.
The Seattle Public School teacher also claimed that Israel “…chose to obliterate Israeli civilians, including at least one child, in their efforts to kill Hamas militants.â€
He concluded, “I’m just trying to get it straight for myself… I don’t know how into the weeds y’all are on this… also, f*ck Hamas, f*ck Israel, I’m a communist.â€
This is the SAME teacher who led student protesters into the King County Jail in 2020, then attempted to block news cameras. We covered it on FOX 13 at the time. Get this man away from kids. https://t.co/OTpPo7mj6o https://t.co/lFpRzPuDqu
— Brandi Kruse (@BrandiKruse) December 12, 2023
In 2020, Golash led student protesters into the King County Jail and attempted to block news cameras.
HARASSED: All media being blocked from recording protesters at King Co. Jail. Several are trying to get into the building. This is same group that shut down traffic this morning in HWY 99 tunnel leading into Downtown Seattle. #SEATTLE #seattleprotest #Protests #Seattleprotest pic.twitter.com/y863dnwK89
— Jonathan Choe Journalist (Seattle) (@choeshow) August 19, 2020
He is also listed as a plaintiff in a lawsuit against the city of Seattle for the wrongful death of Summer Taylor, and failure to protect BLM/Antifa rioters, who marched onto a freeway to protest during the summer of 2020. One protestor was killed and another was injured when a driver ignored the closures and sped onto the closed freeway.
From under what rock did this little weasel crawl out from under?
From under a leftist rock. It’s always leftists.
No better reason than this to defund the department of education. The US department of Education has failed at a federal level. Time to give it back to the states.
“Teachers” that teach their version of reality are not teachers; they are brainwashers. This clown has disqualified himself from being around children; he’s mentally unstable and a threat. He can think what he wants about Hamas and terrorism but he has no right to put that to students as fact.
Hopefully there are enough parents in Seattle that value truth and citizenship to get this worthless piece of shit fired and marked so that he can never teach again.
I’ve had a few mentally ill teachers in the past.
One had a good excuse; he’d been a guest of the North Koreans during the hottest part of the Korean conflict.
The other, who knows why.
He handed out “A’s” to everyone after one test then gave out “F’s” to most of the class just before he was forcibly removed from his teaching job.
A grad student finished up teaching his last semester.
But nowadays mentally ill teachers rule.
There is no one to reel them in or force them to behave.
And they have the power of “pass or fail.”
Golash is jewish. So what else do you expect from him?