Georgia saw an increase of 133% in antisemitic incidents in 2021, or 49 incidents in 2021 compared to 21 the year before, according to Anti-Defamation League data, which includes both criminal and non-criminal incidents of harassment, vandalism and assault. “The colloquial recognition of this image for many people, within the Jewish community and outside the Jewish community, on an initial glance is Nazi imagery.”Įducation ‘is the way to attack this issue’ Why are military insignia being used to design a new logo? It’s not a military academy,” Flaks said. And why are we pausing to reconsider? That sounds like you’re not sure what you’re going to do,” Efrat said.įlaks also pointed out that modeling a school logo after military insignia was inappropriate to begin with.
Army colonel’s eagle wings, stakeholder input has been and continues to be important to our schools.”įor some parents, like Efrat, the district’s response was not enough. Although this design was based on the U.S. “We understand and strongly agree that similarities to Nazi symbolism are unacceptable. “The roll-out of this logo has been halted, and we are immediately reviewing needed changes,” a district spokesperson told CNN in an emailed statement. But when it comes from our public institutions, it hurts even more.”įollowing the backlash, the school’s principal sent an email to parents, obtained by CNN, saying they have “paused to consider that feedback” and the logo is being reviewed.Ī spokesperson for Cobb County School District confirmed that the logo’s rollout was stopped in an email to CNN.
“I think that antisemitism, or microaggressions are just part of daily life of being in a Jewish community. “It reopens the wounds that many students and families carry all the time,” Flaks said of the redesign. “Between the staff, graphic designers, board members, whoever approved this image, I can’t imagine that there wasn’t at least one person who didn’t see what the rest of the community has seen as far as what this image evokes for many of us,” Flaks said.įlaks said she and her husband immediately felt uncomfortable after seeing the new logo in the email and reached out to the principal. Rabbi Amanda Flaks, another parent at the school, also expressed disbelief over how the logo was approved. I still don’t understand how it happened.” “How could this possibly have happened? I could not understand it, really. “I looked at the email and I’m like, ‘Oh my God, that logo looks like the Nazi symbol,’” Efrat said. She found out about the logo after seeing backlash online from others in the community and expressed her frustration on social media.
“We don’t want our kids to go to a school where the logo is a Nazi symbol,” parent Stacy Efrat told CNN.Ī mother of three, Efrat’s family is Jewish and one of her children is a second grader at the school. The 1920s Nazi Eagle crest was developed by the Nazi Party in Germany and later appropriated by neo-Nazis and other White supremacists with different variations, according to the Anti-Defamation League. “The new logo & badges were chosen to represent the Eagle soaring into excellence and to honor the history of our great school,” reads the email to parents obtained by CNN.īut some parents took to social media to voice their alarm over the design’s resemblance to a Nazi symbol that features an eagle over a swastika. The redesign portrayed an eagle over a hexagon with the letters “ES” inside, a design the district says was inspired by the US Army colonel’s eagle wings. An elementary school in Marietta, Georgia, is halting the rollout of a new logo after an uproar from parents who pointed out its similarities to a Nazi symbol.Įast Side Elementary School, located in Georgia’s second-largest school district, debuted the new logo in a Monday email to parents.
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