Trump VP hopeful Elise Stefanik tried to recreate a viral moment on antisemitism in schools. It fell flat

Republicans hoping for a repeat of the viral moment that took down multiple Ivy League university presidents came away disappointed after attempts to create conflict with a trio of K-12 school officials from Democratic jurisdictions fell flat.

On Wednesday, a session of the House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education was held on antisemitism. Representative Aaron Bean opened the hearing by claiming that “kids as young as second graders” in public schools are “spewing Nazi propaganda” in liberal cities.

Bean then asked whether the alleged propaganda-spewing children in second grade were ”positioned” to “attack the Jewish people” in the wake of the October 7 terror attacks on Israel by Hamas.

Republicans directed most of their ire during the session towards David Banks, the New York City Public Schools chancellor, and pushed him to speak about an incident at a New York high school in which a pro-Israel teacher was the subject of a protest.

Banks repeatedly told multiple lawmakers that the principal of that school was removed from his position after the protest incident. But they appeared unsatisfied by his answer because he would not say that the principal in question was fired.

Representative Elise Stefanik — the New York congresswoman and alleged Donald Trump vice presidential hopeful whose viral confrontation with the former leaders of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania led to both being ousted from their positions — said it was “concerning” that the New York principal remained employed by the school system.

She accused Banks and other witnesses of paying “lip service” to fighting antisemitism but presiding over a “lack of enforcement” and “a