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William Shattuc
William Shattuc is a schoolteacher who spread hatred of Israel and promoted anti-Israel activism in the classroom.
Shattuc’s anti-Israel activism took place during Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists. Israel launched the war, called called “Swords of Iron,” after a series of Hamas terror attacks and war crimes against Israeli civilians, including mass murder, torture, rape, beheadings and kidnappings. The atrocities were executed on October 7, 2023, and left approximately 1,200 Israelis dead, hundreds kidnapped and thousands wounded.
As of August 2024, Shattuc was active [00:00:34] with the anti-Israel group Los Angeles Educators for Justice in Palestine (LA EJP).
As of February 2025, Shattuc was listed on the John Adams Middle School website as the “7 & 8 [grade] ELA [English Language Arts] /Reading” teacher. John Adams Middle School is located in Los Angeles, California.
Also as of February 2025, Shattuc’s LinkedIn profile said he had graduated from Hampshire College (Hampshire) in 2015. Hampshire is located in Amherst, Massachusetts.
On October 31, 2024, The Free Press reported that Shattuc participated in an anti-Israel panel "...to discuss...how to turn their K-12 students against Israel." The meeting was organized by the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) in August 2024.
During the panel, Shattuc said [video; 00:16:48]: "...our union is inherently political...we're looking to take political action...we use this pin to have conversation with our coworkers about the genocide in Gaza and about a ceasefire..."
Shattuc displayed the LA EJP pin featuring a watermelon. Shattuc said [00:17:47]: "We use this pin to...build our group from the rank and file of UTLA..." and [00:18:58]: "...and it's paid off to the point where we have a group of nearly 300 people now in UTLA..."
The watermelon has been appropriated by anti-Israel activists as a symbol of Palestinian "resistance" to "Israeli occupation," as it shares the Pan-Arab colors. It has been depicted in art, used on flags at protests and posted online. It gained popularity following the Hamas terror attacks of October 7, 2023.
Shattuc also said [00:00:06]: "...we know that good history education is political education, right? And when we are coming up against political movements, like the movement for Zionism, that we disagree with, that we’re in conflict with…"
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.
During the same UTLA panel in August 2024, Shattuc said [00:00:51]: “We went to marches. We went to the encampments at college campuses all over the city. We went and spoke to people directly involved in the fight. And that is some of the best political education that you can possibly have.”
On April 17, 2024, Columbia students and anti-Israel activists set up what they called the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the university's main lawn. The encampment was the first of its kind and reportedly inspired a wave of as many as 140 protest encampments across North American campuses and over 20 globally.
Encampment participants protested Israel’s war against Hamas and demanded that the universities “divest from companies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide and occupation…” At least 14 schools pledged to meet a number of the protesters' demands. Some allowed police to dismantle the encampments, which led to mass arrests in a number of cases.
Protesters reportedly harassed Jewish students. Some blocked Jews from campus facilities, while others restricted access to only those wearing special wristbands or who declared they were "not a Zionist." Some Jewish students were told [00:00:02] to “go back to Poland” and [slide 3]: “Yahoodi [Jew], f**k you!” as they walked on campus.
