Andrew Saltz
Overview
Andrew Saltz is a Philadelphia high school teacher who defended Hamas terrorism and spread hatred of Israel. Saltz also promoted an anti-Israel school project in 2024.The project was part of a larger controversy over anti-Semitism in the School District of Philadelphia (SDP), where Saltz is an English teacher. The controversy included SDP offering an anti-Israel professional training course to teachers and SDP teachers teaching anti-Israel material in the classroom, as detailed further below in the profile.
Saltz’s online posts occurred during Israel’s war against Hamas, called “Swords of Iron.” Israel launched the war after a series of Hamas terror attacks and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings, which were executed on October 7, 2023. The terror attacks left approximately 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded.
As of July 2024, Saltz was listed on the website of Paul Robeson High School (Paul Robeson) as an “English 3, Technology, Roster” teacher. Paul Robeson is part of the SDP.
As of September 2024, Saltz’s LinkedIn profile said he had been working as a “Teacher of Children” at Paul Robeson, since 2006. His LinkedIn also said he had been working as a “Technology Teacher Leader” in SDP since 2014, and as a “Judaica Instructor, 3rd-7th grade” at the Beth David Reform Congregation since 2006.
As of September 2024, Saltz’s LinkedIn said he graduated from Saint Joseph’s University (SJU) with a master’s degree in education in 2012.
As of the same date, Saltz’s LinkedIn said he was located in Greater Philadelphia, Pennsylvania area.
Defending Hamas Terrorism
On October 9, 2023, two days after Hamas terrorists attacked Israel, Saltz posted on X: “...the whole things boils down to this: What do you want them to do? What does legitimate and effective resistance look like under these conditions?”Among anti-Israel activists, the term “resistance” is a euphemism for terrorism and is used to glorify and encourage anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence.
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, approximately 2,900 heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation.
Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.” As of November 10, 2023, approximately 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.
A terrorist detained by Israel admitted he raped an Israeli woman when he broke into a kibbutz house during the October 7, 2023 attack. In March 2024, a former hostage of Hamas publicly stated she was sexually abused and tortured while in captivity.
For more information on the October 7, 2023 terror attacks, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
Hatred of Israel
On October 14, 2023, Saltz posted on X that there were “atrocities committed in our name in Gaza” that included “genocide.”On October 23, 2023, Saltz posted on X: “If you think ‘from the river to the sea’ is genocidal, what is a good way to say ‘I would like to see Palestinians with the same rights and basic dignity as Israeli citizens and other people’...”
“From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” is a chant used [00:02:47] to call for the elimination of the State of Israel. It has also been employed by Hamas leader Khaled Mashal to call for the replacement of Israel with an Islamic state. In April 2024, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution condemning the chant as antisemitic.
On November 22, 2023, Saltz posted on X: “I’ve seen...older Jews who remember the founding of Israel and have it cemented as a part of their worldview. They still see the possibility of a Good Jewish State.”
On March 28, 2024, Saltz claimed in an X post that Zionism was “colonialism.”
Zionism is the belief that Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture.
Anti-Israel Activism
On March 3, 2024, Saltz posted on X: “Hey are you a teacher? do you want to have a provocative lesson about a student project involving Palestine being censored? Well the video is right here…” His post linked to a student video titled: “Oppression Art Podcast,” which anti-Israel teacher Keziah Ridgeway promoted.The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the student video drew [00:00:15] “parallels between the experiences of enslaved African Americans and the ongoing situation in Palestine and Israel.” The same report said that Ridgeway gave the students an “A” and chose their video for “entry into the school’s Black History Month assemblies.”
Saltz’s support for Ridgeway’s project was part of a larger controversy in SDP for the 2023-2024 school year.
In November 2023, after Hamas terrorists murdered nearly 1,200 Israelis on October 7, 2023, SDP offered teachers an anti-Israel professional development course. The curriculum claimed that Israel was carrying out the “colonization of Palestine” and that Israel’s war against Hamas was a “genocide in Gaza and the West Bank.”
The course was titled: “Decolonizing the Curriculum: Brief History of Palestine and the Creation of Israel: Contextualizing the Current Conflict and Genocide.” A summary on the SDP portal said teachers would be “better equipped to have conversations and facilitate lessons with their students” about Israel. After local news sites publicized the course, SDP removed it from the portal.
SDP continued to come under pressure from activist groups to teach anti-Israel material in K-12 classrooms, including groups representing teachers and parents. Two such groups were the Racial Justice Organizing Committee (RJOC) and the Philadelphia Educators for Palestine (PEFP), led by SDP high school teacher Keziah Ridgeway.
RJOC organized anti-Israel “teach-ins” in late 2023 and throughout 2024. RJOC also provided “Educator Lesson Plans” for teachers, listing as a resource the Teach Palestine Project, a pro-terror and anti-Israel teaching resource. In May 2024, PEFP called on SDP to meet six demands. Among them were: “to unequivocally condemn the ongoing genocide waged on the Palestinian people” and “to release a ceasefire resolution [with regard to Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists].”
The course was titled: “Decolonizing the Curriculum: Brief History of Palestine and the Creation of Israel: Contextualizing the Current Conflict and Genocide.” A summary on the SDP portal said teachers would be “better equipped to have conversations and facilitate lessons with their students” about Israel. After local news sites publicized the course, SDP removed it from the portal.
SDP continued to come under pressure from activist groups to teach anti-Israel material in K-12 classrooms, including groups representing teachers and parents. Two such groups were the Racial Justice Organizing Committee (RJOC) and the Philadelphia Educators for Palestine (PEFP), led by SDP high school teacher Keziah Ridgeway.
RJOC organized anti-Israel “teach-ins” in late 2023 and throughout 2024. RJOC also provided “Educator Lesson Plans” for teachers, listing as a resource the Teach Palestine Project, a pro-terror and anti-Israel teaching resource. In May 2024, PEFP called on SDP to meet six demands. Among them were: “to unequivocally condemn the ongoing genocide waged on the Palestinian people” and “to release a ceasefire resolution [with regard to Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists].”
SDP had been under investigation by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights since April 2024, after a group of over 200 parents filed a complaint against the district. The complaint alleged there was “persistent harassment and bullying of Jewish students” and “inflammatory anti-Jewish and anti-Israel messages on social media and even in the classroom” by teachers and administrators at schools across Philadelphia.
Social Media and Weblinks
X:https://x.com/mr_saltzFacebook:https://www.facebook.com/andrew.saltz
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/not_twochainz/ [Private]
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-saltz-68896019
Github:https://github.com/AndrewSaltz
- Status:
- Professional
- University:
- Saint Joseph's
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- Last Modified:
- 06/23/2025
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