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   An embattled Brooklyn teaching assistant who was handcuffed at a Columbia   
   University protest last week has been fired, The Post has learned.   
      
   James Parra, a fifth-grade paraprofessional at Brooklyn Arbor in   
   Williamsburg who called Israel a “racist” and “terrorist” state, shared   
   his ouster on social media Wednesday.   
      
   “After 8 years of dedicated service and after 6 months of doxxing and   
   harassment and Zionist parents making themselves the victims, my   
   superintendent just a few moments ago terminated me from my position,”   
   Parra, 27, wrote on Instagram.   
      
   “F–k these Zionists and f–k these administrators who are complicit and   
   sympathizers with Zionism and genocide,” he added with a photo of himself   
   wearing a keffiyeh while a child hugs him.   
      
   Parra received a summons on April 22 for refusing to move from outside the   
   campus gates at a pro-Palestine protest.   
      
   The former one-on-one special-ed paraprofessional attended LaGuardia   
   Community College and Hunter College, according to LinkedIn and a GoFundMe   
   he started to raise tuition money.   
      
   At a parent council meeting on April 18, Parra blasted his boss,   
   Superintendent David Cintron, as a “spineless coward” for not protecting   
   him from the backlash he received after posting on Palestine — apparently   
   while on the job — including photos of himself wearing a keffiyeh.   
      
   Controversial Community Education Council 14 President Tajh Sutton   
   responded to his rant, “We love you, James,” and added, “You are the best   
   of this district.”   
      
   Sutton was reprimanded by city Schools Chancellor David Banks in an April   
   16 letter for “improper conduct” by involving herself in Parra’s personnel   
   matter after his suspension in February.   
      
   Parents and activists have demanded Parra’s removal for months. In January   
   alone, the DOE received more than 850 complaints about him.   
      
   “There is no place in NYC or in the NYC Public Schools for anti-Jewish   
   rhetoric or hatred of any kind,” Tova Plaut, founder of the New York City   
   Public Schools Alliance, told The Post.   
      
   The DOE confirmed Parra’s firing in an email.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2024/05/04/us-news/anti-israel-teaching-assistant-   
   fired-from-nyc-elementary-school/   
      
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