A few weeks ago i posted about my school not wanting to address antisemitism, to which I received some very effective advice. I ended up sending a series of emails detailing how I will (and was) escalating the issue should they continue to stonewall my efforts to address an antisemitic act in my school. After they saw I have already contacted the ADL, and was preparing a title 6 statement to send to the school board, they decided to sit me down and do an investigation, which resulted in what effectively is a school restraining order (not my goal/idea at all, I wanted more of a learning lesson, not discipline, but i cant say anything now).

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Additionally, I was invited to sit on a panel for an interfaith assembly where students of various faiths sit and present their faith. Now there is about 2 or three students (and a teacher) anticipated to sit per faiths present in the school student body. Now, My school is pretty diverse...Except for the Jewish representation. I'm the only one there (except for a single teacher, who is kinda iffy on attending). The event is on the 14th and I have no idea what I am going to do/say. this is in front of my entire school- easily 2-3000 students. I'm afraid of a number of things- misrepresenting our people, and being made a target of further incidents. I don't want to back out, I feel a certain duty to our people to do this, in the vain hope of ridding the world of some level of hate. Everyone at my temple just keeps saying I'm brave, and that I'm doing good work, especially with the club I preside over, but no one offers advice. I'm not afraid that I've bitten off more than I can chew, I am afraid of my lack of proper support/adult guidance. I've asked the school what are my limits as to what I can discuss/what's "off the table"- especially in terms of the "promised land", and they haven't been very helpful, which makes me fear for my safety. Like what if I mention (in a very factual way) that Israel in the bible was the promised land, and what if that is misconstrued to mean anything else? Should I mention Zionism? Can i define what Zionism is? It certainly is an element that relates to judaism, especially my experiance of judaism (the school wants to hear "my story" or my "jewish experiance").

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Just a teen looking for advice,

Emma

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Edit:

No one is forcing me to do this.

Also, my school is a public school in the USA, and the USA is weird about schools spending money on "religous related" activities, hence why this is mostly student led.