“Blind Spot is the students’ story,” noted Executive Producer Lenny Gold.
The New Yorker has been on a mission to document and communicate widespread antisemitism in schools since 2009 when he learned his son encountered antisemitism at his school in Manhattan.
“I first became aware of this problem when our son encountered it in the 8th grade at his Quaker school,” he explained. “The school had a great reputation and always had about 1/3rd of the students being Jewish. I had never heard a bad word about the school …”
Gold said a Jewish history teacher compared Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to the treatment of Jews by the Nazis. “My son who was the only Jewish student in class challenged that contention.”