Dupage Policy Journal

Hinsdale Central High School Principal William Walsh said school officials were unaware of a reported incident of an anti-semitic slogan reportedly being displayed in a school classroom.

However, the school is investigating the report and will address it if need be.

Walsh said Hinsdale Central High School aims to provide a safe space for all students.  

Screenshot of Sofia Rahman's LinkedIn account. | LinkedIn / Sofia Rahman

“Hate has no purpose on our campus,” Walsh told the DuPage Policy Journal.

Walsh’s comments came after DuPage Policy Journal was sent a photo of a poster, hung in a teacher Sofia Rahman’s classroom reading “Children of Gaza” and bearing the slogan “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free.”

The "From the River to the Sea" slogan is a popular rallying cry of terrorist groups seeking the elimination of Israel.

It is commonly used by pro-Palestinian activists as a call for the establishment of a State of Palestine, effectively erasing the State of Israel.

The American Jewish Committee notes the phrase is inherently anti-semitic as it represents the idea of Palestinian control over the entire territory from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea, which includes the land of Israel.

“There is of course nothing antisemitic about advocating for Palestinians to have their own state. However, calling for the elimination of the Jewish state, praising Hamas or other entities who call for Israel's destruction, or suggesting that the Jews alone do not have the right to self-determination, is antisemitic,” the American Jewish Committee (AJC) said of the phrase in its “Translate Hate” series.

Rahman's LinkedIn account notes she has been a social studies teacher at Hinsdale Central High School since 2012.

Sources at Hinsdale Central tell the DuPage Policy Journal Rahman refuses to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance because the United States "is not her country.”

Rahman has also elevated anti-Israel voices on her X account where she retweeted a post U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) whose own party members noted as being "offensive" and "misguided" after she compared the United States and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban. The AJC addressed Omar's comments in a piece titled "Ilhan Omar Has a Problem With Jews."

The "From the River to the Sea" rallying cry has increasingly been taken up by the radical left siding with Palestinians in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on innocent Israeli civilians.

Notably, Chicago City Council Housing Committee Chair Byron Sigcho Lopez drew criticism after a video was posted to X in which he uses the  “From the River to the Sea” rallying cry.

Sigcho Lopez is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America which has supported the attack by Hamas.

Sigcho Lopez’s use of the slogan is just one of several overt anti-Israel actions taken recently in Illinois since the attack.

Over the weekend pro-Palestinian protestors attacked attendees of a pro-Israel rally in Skokie.

“I was punched repeatedly, kicked in the head, and hit with a flagpole,” Peter Christos, the Illinois, Missouri, and Northwest Indiana High School Representative for Turning Point USA, said in a post on X.

His account of the beating was verified by video taken of the incident.

A prominent attorney working for the Illinois State Comptroller was also fired for using anti-semitic slurs in InstaGram messages aimed at a Jewish person.

Sarah Chowdhury, who was ironically Co-Chair of the Chicago Bar’s Racial Justice Coalition and once honored by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois for her “commitment to social justice,” said in the series of messages "F***ing Jew," "I'd rather put you in a gas chamber bet you'd like that," "With all of our Zionist ancestors,” "Hitler should have eradicated all of you,” “ZIONIST PIG,” “all Zionists will pay” and “Hopefully someone sends you anthrax or poison and you die a slow terrible death."