(CBC) Dozens gathered outside the Department of Education building on Brunswick Street in Halifax on Monday to protest what they call anti-Palestinian racism at a local school.
Family members of students at Park West School and local advocacy groups say some students were told they couldn’t wear a traditional Palestinian scarf, called a keffiyeh, during the school’s culture day last week.
The school principal and the Halifax Regional Centre for Education acknowledged there was an “incident” at the school, but have denied there is a ban on the keffiyeh.
Abdullah Aboalkhair said his 13-year-old brother, a Grade 9 student at the school, and his friends wore the keffiyeh that day, but took it off when he heard that students were getting suspended. He said no one at the school spoke to his brother about it.
