The children who attend Cobb County schools - and their families - deserve better.”
“Pretending that antisemitism doesn’t exist won’t make it go away. “This is not the first time Cobb County schools have been tone-deaf to antisemitism,” said Dov Wilker, director of the American Jewish Committee Atlanta region, in a statement about the logo design. Several Cobb middle school students were disciplined earlier this year for sharing antisemitic imagery on social media.Īntisemitic incidents in Georgia more than doubled between 20, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League. Graffiti depicting swastikas was found in two Cobb County high schools during the Jewish High Holidays. Last month, a group began posting hot pink billboards around metro Atlanta challenging people to fight antisemitism, partly in response to incidents last school year. The logo controversy is only the latest related to antisemitism in Cobb schools.
Not just the Jewish community but the entire community,” Efrat said. “I want to see the logo not only taken away I want a direct apology to our community. Stacy Efrat said that as a parent and a member of the Jewish community, she was outraged.
She said she was hurt on many levels, adding, “my children are great grandchildren of someone who fled the Nazi regime in Germany and survived the Holocaust.” That makes me uncomfortable,’ and I came back to it a few times and I felt more and more uncomfortable and sick each time,” Flaks said, noting the war eagle was used by the Nazis in World World II and currently by other neo-Fascist and neo-Nazi sympathizer groups.įlaks said she contacted the school and got an apology from the principal, along with pictures of what the school district said the logo was based on. Rabbi Amanda Flaks told WSB-TV she had to look twice at the design. Or maybe, who knows, somebody did call it out and it wasn’t heard.”Įast Side Elementary is across the street from a synagogue. “Really it’s a big oversight of the county and everyone involved in the process who reviewed that, to not call out the fact that this looks like Nazi iconography. “I don’t want to see my kids wearing that on their shirt,” Mike Albuquerque, the father of two students who will attend the school next year, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The design drew a swift backlash on social media. saying it was chosen to “represent the eagle soaring into excellence and to honor the history of our great school.” The district has been working with all schools to create logos, the message added. Army colonel's eagle wings, stakeholder input has been and continues to be important to our schools," the statement said.Ī message to parents on Monday notified them of the new logo. “We understand and strongly agree that similarities to Nazi symbolism are unacceptable, although this design was based on the U.S. Georgia's second-largest school district announced plans to delay the new logo while “immediately reviewing needed changes.” The Nazi eagle, which was developed in the 1920s and later became a symbol for white supremacists, depicts an eagle holding a swastika in its talons. The logo depicts an eagle, the school's mascot, over the school's initials ES. The Cobb County School District said Tuesday that it has halted distribution of the new logo for East Side Elementary School in Marietta after it drew condemnation on social media. (AP) - The rollout of a new logo for an Atlanta area elementary school has been paused after parents noted similarities to a Nazi symbol, though a school district said the design was based on a U.S.
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