Jewish teachers are demanding action after a full-sized Palestinian flag has hung for months in the hallway of a Brooklyn high school — with repeated complaints to city education officials going unanswered, the NY Post reported.

The banner has been on display at Leaders High School in Gravesend, part of the Lafayette Educational Complex, since at least April, according to Moshe Spern, president of the 250-member United Jewish Teachers group.

“It’s a blatant political statement, and it has no place in a public school,” Spern told The Post. “For five months, this flag has been a constant, political presence in this school’s hallways, and it’s impossible to ignore the message it’s sending to the school’s staff and children.”

Spern said he first gave the benefit of the doubt, assuming the display might be tied to a cultural observance. But after the flag remained long after the school year ended, he formally contacted Principal Thomas Mullen, citing Department of Education rules prohibiting political displays on school property.

In emails shared with The Post, Spern wrote that Jewish staff, parents, and students were “very concerned” about the display and urged school leaders to restore neutrality. “The flag is clearly a political statement, and you’re making Jewish stakeholders really uncomfortable,” Spern wrote in a follow-up message after receiving no response.

To date, neither Mullen nor the Department of Education has responded to the complaints. Mullen declined to comment when reached.

“This is a matter of trust,” Spern said. “When we alerted school and district leadership to a clear violation of political neutrality regulations, they chose to ignore us. That’s simply unacceptable. They had every chance to correct this before students even walked through the door for the new school year, but they left it up. How can we trust that similar violations in other schools are not going unchecked?”

Spern called on both the DOE and the United Federation of Teachers to step in. “Every stakeholder has the right to attend a school without feeling intimidated or scared,” he said.

The DOE has yet to issue a statement on the controversy.

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