Maysa Jarara

Introduction

Maysa Jarara, a math teacher at Park Slope Collegiate, a public school in Brooklyn, was named in an October 17, 2026 New York Post report documenting a series of antisemitic social media posts attributed to her — most prominently a July 19 Facebook caricature of soccer star Lionel Messi that the paper described as echoing the antisemitic meme known as “The Happy Merchant.” Her posts had circulated among watchdog accounts for days before the report, and Jewish advocacy groups reacted sharply. According to the New York Post, Jarara could not be reached for comment, and no disciplinary action against her has been announced.

Background Information

Jarara teaches math at Park Slope Collegiate, part of the New York City Department of Education; per public payroll records cited by the New York Post, she earned $140,000 in 2025. The caricature at the center of the report was posted in the middle of the 2026 FIFA World Cup, a tournament during which the Israeli nonprofit CyberWell documented a wave of online antisemitic conspiracy theories falsely claiming Messi is Jewish, controlled by Jews, or benefiting from Jewish influence over FIFA — narratives CyberWell described as recycling the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

Documented posts; no announced discipline. The New York Post’s report names Jarara, dates the posts, and quotes them directly; the additional posts below were attributed to her by the watchdog account that circulated them. No suspension, reassignment, or Department of Education action against her has been announced, no criminal matter exists, and she did not respond to the paper’s request for comment.

According to the New York Post, Jarara posted an image on Facebook on July 19 under the name “Maysa” showing a crying, groveling Messi rendered with a super-sized nose, wearing a yarmulke and rubbing his hands together — imagery the paper described as resembling “The Happy Merchant,” a despicable antisemitic internet meme. “The look on his face is priceless,” read the caption per the report. Messi had been a recurring target of such material during the World Cup: CyberWell’s research found posts falsely claiming Jews control FIFA and have worked behind the scenes to benefit the Argentine star’s career.

The report said Jarara also regularly reposts messages denigrating Israel, including one featuring the Israeli flag covered in blood, and that on the three-year anniversary of Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack — which killed over 1,200 Israelis — she posted an Instagram illustration of a keffiyeh-clad man dancing with a woman in a hijab in front of a burning pile, captioned “And we love life and we can live it in a way.”

On October 13, the watchdog account StopAntisemites amplified her case to its followers, writing that “posts attributed to Jarara include ‘from the river to the sea,’ a slogan widely understood as calling for Israel’s elimination,” alongside claims that a “Zionist lobby” controls the U.S. and the UN and a 9/11 conspiracy theory blaming Jews. The post, which carried four images and drew roughly 1,300 likes, tagged the Education Department and asked whether such views are “compatible with the responsibility educators have to their students.”

Named groups reacted in the New York Post’s report. “Jarara has crossed a major line by trafficking in classic antisemitic tropes that cast Jews as greedy and scheming,” said Moshe Spern, president of the United Jewish Teachers. Karen Feldman, president of the New York City Public Schools Alliance, called the posts “deeply disturbing,” saying “we have a teacher who is entrusted with educating children publicly sharing inflammatory, biased, and historically misleading posts about Israel and the Jewish people.” The report placed her case inside a wider pattern it described of Education Department teachers caught engaging in antisemitism online since October 7, including a history teacher whose “Long live Yahya Al-Sinwar” group text surfaced in a lawsuit and a social studies teacher reprimanded for hosting an antisemitic conspiracy podcast.

Public Reaction and Consequences

The watchdog amplification preceded the press coverage by days: StopAntisemites’ October 13 post drew about 1,300 likes and 384 reposts, and the New York Post report landed four days later. The paper framed Jarara’s case against a backdrop it described of thousands of NYC Jewish families pulling their children from public schools “to shield them from the nonstop anti-Israel brainwashing going on in city classrooms,” citing a Teach Coalition study finding a roughly 3,100-student enrollment surge in Jewish schools across New York State. Neither the teachers’ union reaction nor the advocates’ statements was accompanied by any announced employment consequence for Jarara.

Current Status

As of the October 17-18, 2026 reporting, Jarara remains a Park Slope Collegiate math teacher: no suspension, reassignment, termination, or Department of Education disciplinary action against her has been announced, and no criminal matter exists — the documented conduct is her own social media posting. Per the New York Post, she “could not be reached for comment,” and no public statement from her denying or explaining the posts is on record. The report did not state whether her accounts remain active. By contrast, the same report noted a Brooklyn social studies teacher, George Trim, was previously reprimanded by the Education Department over an antisemitic conspiracy podcast — a marker of what discipline in comparable cases has looked like.

Impact on Their Career/Life

A publicly named teacher whose posts were documented in detail by the city’s largest paper, Jarara now sits at the center of an organized campaign by watchdog and advocacy groups demanding answers from the Education Department — her name, school, and salary cited across the coverage. The report ties her case to an exodus of Jewish families from the city’s public schools, giving her employer a costly incentive to act. Whether the department follows the path of the reprimand it issued in the Trim case, or takes stronger action, is unannounced; what is public is a teacher documented posting antisemitic caricatures while entrusted with the city’s children.

Sources

• NY Post, “NYC teacher posts antisemitic meme of Lionel Messi,” Oct 17, 2026 — source
• NY Post, tweet linking the Jarara report, Oct 18, 2026 — source
• StopAntisemites, “Yet another NYC public school educator whose online posts raise serious concerns: meet Maysa Jarara,” Oct 13, 2026 — source
• JNS, “World Cup antisemitism targets Lionel Messi, revives old anti-Jewish myths,” Jul 15, 2026 — source