Graffiti on Jewish-Arab School demands end to co-existence

Last Saturday night, a bilingual Jewish-Arab school in Jerusalem was firebombed and defaced by graffiti. Among the spray-painted slogans: "Kahana was right." "Enough assimilation." "No co-existence with cancer." The outpouring of public support and expressions of solidarity for the school and what it stands for were immediate and heartening, though not sufficient, as a friend of mine wrote, when I asked her whether things are getting worse. My friend went to the demonstration with her daughter, a graduate of the K-8 bilingual school Yad-be-Yad, which is the largest of five such schools across the country.

For more on the incident, see the following reports: http://www.timesofisrael.com/bilingual-jewish-arab-school-in-jerusalem-torched/ http://972mag.com/we-will-overcome-arson-mourning-at-jerusalems-bilingual-school/99428/ http://972mag.com/jerusalem-bilingual-school-set-on-fire-in-alleged-arson-attack/99391/

You can express support by donating to the school through its website at http://www.handinhandk12.org