Benjamin Reese, a School teacher in Georgia, USA, has been arrested and accused of threatening to behead a 12-year-old who said that the presence of Israel’s flag in his class was offensive.
Benjamin Reese’s arrest at the middle school occurred on after a student approached and told him she was offended by the Israeli flag hanging in his classroom, according to a police account of the case.
Reese, a seventh-grade social studies teacher, allegedly replied that he was a Jew and had relatives who lived in Israel. The student said “Israelis killing Palestinians” made the flag offensive, which prompted Reese to accuse her of being antisemitic.
Several different witnesses then heard Reese, 51, say he would “kick [the] student’s fucking ass, slit her goddamn throat … drag her ass outside and cut her head off.”
One faculty member alleged to have heard Reese say: “You don’t make an antisemitic comment like that to a Jew.” The student “responded negatively to Reese but was not yelling”, that witness said.
According to the police account, that witness described seeing Reese return to his classroom while he swore loudly and said he “should not be spoken to like that because he is a Jew”.
“I will drag her ass into the parking lot, slit her fucking throat and kill her,” Reese allegedly said, as the police account told it.
