Seattle Teacher Suspended for Disturbing Israel-Hamas Comments
The teacher previously garnered criticism after reportedly telling students that it was offensive to identify as ‘straight’
A Seattle teacher was suspended after making comments related to the Israel-Hamas conflict and suggested that the terror attack against Israel on October 7, 2023 was justified.
Ian Golash, an ethnic and social studies teacher and chair at Chief Sealth International High School was suspended on April 11 after Accuracy in Media [AIM], a conservative advocacy group with an ongoing “Antisemitism Accountability Project,” exposed his “antisemitic” social media posts.
Golash, a self-identified communist, has a lengthy criminal record including multiple arrests in Oregon for assault, violating parole, and criminal harassment.
AIM, President Adam Guillette, interviewed Golash and directly asked him if he believed the October 7, 2023 attack was justified, to which he answered, “Yes.”
The teacher, surrounded by high school students, opted to answer Guillette’s questions on camera regarding his past statements.
Guillette asked, “The murder of innocent [Israeli] women, just attending a music festival, was justified in your opinion?”
“No, I think resistance against Israel is justified, yes,” the high school teacher responded.
AIM’s president continued to question him by asking, “Is America an oppressor state?” to which Golash replied, “Yeah.”
“Because Golash had dragged his students outside to see the spectacle, we were able to get some of their perspectives on their own teacher,” AIM wrote in a report detailing the conversation. “One student said, ‘I don’t know how he [Golash] hasn’t been fired yet.'”
In social media posts, screenshotted and distributed by AIM, Golash claimed that the Palestinian terror organization Hamas “didn’t behead” and “didn’t rape anyone.” Hours of footage and dozens of detailed reports have proven the contrary.
Earlier this year, the mother of a 15-year-old student in Golash’s class spoke to Jason Rantz about comments the teacher made, allegedly calling her son a “product of the patriarchy that teaches young boys not to care.” A worksheet reportedly handed out by Golash also asked young students to disclose their “physical, emotional, or developmental disabilities, and sexual preferences.”
The mother then alleged that Golash reprimanded her son for self-identifying as “straight” because it “implies that to not be straight is to be ‘crooked’ which could have a negative connotation.”
