MINNEAPOLIS -- Mayor Jacob Frey and others are calling on the Minneapolis teachers' union to cancel an upcoming seminar featuring a speaker who has openly expressed antisemitic views.
Taher Herzallah is scheduled to speak at a Friday event called "being an educator in a time of war & genocide" at the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Local 59 office. The event sponsored by MFT Educators for Palestine.
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