Elite UN-affiliated private school confiscates dozens of yearbooks filled with swastikas, hate imagery

An elite private school affiliated with the United Nations confiscated dozens of middle-school yearbooks filled with swastikas and other hate imagery — the latest antisemitism scandal to rock the $50,000-a-year Manhattan institution, The Post has learnedThe United Nations International School in Turtle Bay sent a letter to parents Wednesday announcing it confiscated the yearbooks that also contained racist language and launched an investigation to determine “consequences” for those involved.The school said it discovered “hate speech, including swastikas and antisemitic, xenophobic, racist, and homophobic remarks” in the “autograph” section of multiple yearbooks.In the letter, the school — which counts actress Pauline Chalamet, former Knicks player Joakim Noah and former President George H.W.Bush’s daughter Dorothy Bush as grads — encouraged students to come forward and identify those responsible, calling on “upstanders” to report their classmates.Overall, 15 students have been identified as potentially involved in the incident involving more than 30 yearbooks.

School officials said all confiscated yearbooks will be “destroyed” once the investigation is completed.UNIS spokesperson Lupe Todd-Medina told The Post that the school canceled Wednesday’s 8th grade school dance for 130 students, but it wasn’t a “punishment.”“The school has made it very clear that the cancellation of the ‘social’ is not intended to be a punishment for everybody, but reflects their profound sadness and disappointment,” she said.“The middle school gathered for a session led by their diversity and inclusion director to discuss hate speech and its impact on the community.” Students found to have written in the yearbooks were banned from Thursday’s graduation, the spokesperson confirmed.The pre-K to 12 school, which caters to diplomats’ kids, has been under fire for a series of antisemitic incidents, including a longtime Jewish teacher who filed...