WASHINGTON EXAMINER
A Virginia high school teacher went on a 12-minute rant saying the United States is funding a “genocide” in Gaza while attempting to convince children to become activists for the cause, according to an audio recording obtained by the Washington Examiner.
Catherine Massalha, a history teacher at Deep Run High School in Henrico County, just outside Richmond, claimed the warfighting in the region is a “holocaust” against Palestinians, calling Israel an “occupying” regime and members of the terrorist group Hamas “resistance fighters.”
“It is a resistance to the occupation,” Massalha said, according to the recording
In the audio, recorded by a student in a freshman history class, the teacher can be heard accusing Israel of committing war crimes. The student’s father sent the audio to the education advocacy organization Defense of Freedom Institute.
“There’s only one [unintelligible] hospital still standing right now. The rest have been destroyed. Did you know that destroying hospitals in war is called a war crime? Killing innocent civilians is a war crime,” Massalha said in the December talk. “This is not even a war because Gaza has no army. Gaza does not have aircraft, they do not have navies, they do not have any of that. They don’t have tanks — any weapons they have, they literally got from Israel. It’s really important to understand that. This isn’t a war. It didn’t start on Oct. 7; it started before.”
“But what’s happening right now, we started funding. After Oct. 7, our government gave even more money to Israel, and weapons, to attack Gaza,” she continued. “So, your taxpayer money…
