Jewish student targeted with antisemitic abuse, laptop cord attack at Colorado school, ADL alleges

A pupil astatine a Colorado precocious schoolhouse allegedly wrapped a laptop charger astir a Jewish student's cervix and called him an antisemitic slur, according to a June 11 ailment filed by the Anti-Defamation League.

The ailment alleges that schoolhouse officials astatine Southern Hills Middle School failed to halt 2 years of antisemitic harassment against an eighth grader adjacent aft investigations concluded the pupil faced a hostile environment.

The Title VI ailment details a bid of antisemitic incidents that culminated successful the pupil being called a "stupid k--e" and being strangled with the laptop cord.

In April 2025, students allegedly attempted to play a crippled called "Jew interaction tag" and said Jews were "dirty" and "contaminated," according to the complaint.

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Southern Hills Middle School successful Boulder, Colorado. (Google Maps)

The laptop cord incidental occurred successful December 2025 erstwhile a pupil allegedly wrapped the cord astir the Jewish student's cervix portion helium was sitting and dragged him backward from his seat portion calling him a "stupid k---."

The incidental was terrible capable that the Boulder Police Department was called to investigate, according to the complaint.

In April 2026, a classmate reportedly told the pupil "Hitler should person killed each the Jews erstwhile helium had the chance." The signifier of harassment was truthful terrible that the pupil stopped wearing his Star of David necklace, according to the ADL.

A Star of David necklace is shown against a acheronian background. (iStock)

Following the laptop cord incident, determination was a information program and protective bid enactment successful place, but the protective bid "was violated connected time one," the ADL's Vice President of Litigation James Pasch told Fox News' Alicia Acuna connected Tuesday.

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"Despite the family’s pleas for assistance to halt the harassment, the schoolhouse district failed to effectively code it, a wide usurpation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. No household should person to combat this hard to guarantee a Jewish child’s information astatine school, and surely nary Jewish pupil should look the menace of battle oregon harassment due to the fact that of their Jewish identity," Pasch besides said.

Pasch besides revealed that the ADL recorded 167 antisemitic incidents successful Colorado successful 2025.

The ADL's ailment is requesting an apology to the child's household from the schoolhouse territory and a program to coordinate antisemitism grooming for territory students.'

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Jewish students astatine El Camino Real Charter High School locomotion retired to protestation antisemitic incidents successful Los Angeles connected Feb. 27, 2024. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group)

"When an lawsuit occurs similar the 1 I described successful a schoolroom that are witnessed by different students and past evidently talked astir successful the hallways and connected the playgrounds by different student, it's incumbent connected the territory to nonstop a connection retired that talks astir what occurred and addresses the antisemitism caput on, right. I recognize districts can't speech astir idiosyncratic disciplinary issues with students but they tin code underlying events of anti-Semitism that instrumentality spot successful their 4 walls and to talk retired publically against it and accidental this is not what territory stands for and we're not going to tolerate antisemitism successful our building," Pasch said.

"There's astir apt nary much solemn work that a schoolhouse authoritative and officials person than to support our children harmless erstwhile they locomotion done those doors, right? And if there's a nonaccomplishment to bash truthful due to the fact that a pupil is being denied entree to a harmless acquisition due to the fact that of their Jewish identity, that makes them little safe, the full Jewish community, let's save. And the full assemblage of the Boulder Valley School District much unsafe, right? And truthful they're obligated to measurement successful and close the issue," helium besides added.

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Fox News' Alicia Acuna and Alexandra Rego-Rahman contributed to this report.

Fox News Digital contacted the Boulder Valley School District and Boulder Police Department for further comment.