A New York City public school teacher is facing criticism from Jewish education advocates over a Facebook post that used an antisemitic caricature to mock Argentine soccer player Lionel Messi.
\n\nMaysa Jarara teaches math at Park Slope Collegiate in Brooklyn. On July 19, she shared a picture depicting Messi with a distorted face and a Jewish skullcap, the New York Post reported.
\n\nThe drawing shows him crying and rubbing his hands, with an enlarged nose. Jarara posted it through an account named “Maysa.”
\n\n“The look on his face is priceless,” she wrote.
\n\nThe Post identified similarities between the picture and the “Happy Merchant” meme, which uses an exaggerated Jewish figure to promote stereotypes about dishonesty and financial manipulation.
\n\nMoshe Spern, president of United Jewish Teachers, said Jarara’s post repeated familiar forms of anti-Jewish prejudice.
\n\n“Jarara has crossed a major line by trafficking in classic antisemitic tropes that cast Jews as greedy and scheming,” Spern told the outlet.
\n\nJarara’s social media activity also included material attacking Israel, according to the report. One image displayed an Israeli flag marked with blood. Another post appeared on Instagram on October 7, three years after the Hamas-led terrorist attack on Israel. It showed two people…
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