A group of Jewish mothers in a contentious Brooklyn school district is calling for the disbandment of the entire parent council due to discriminatory and antisemitic actions. They are accusing the Community Education Council (CEC) for District 14, which serves Greenpoint and Williamsburg, of promoting anti-Israel sentiments and excluding Jews from speaking at meetings. The mothers have filed a petition with the state Department of Education, detailing their grievances against the council.

The petition states that Jews and Israelis residing in District 14, whose children attend schools in the area, have been systematically prevented from participating in discussions related to their children’s education by the CEC-14. The filing submitted on March 13 outlines the discriminatory behavior and actions taken by the council.

The Jewish mothers are adamant that the CEC-14 has failed to provide a platform for Jewish and Israeli parents to engage in conversations concerning their children’s education. They claim that the council’s actions have been discriminatory and antisemitic, leading to their demand for the complete dissolution of the parent council in District 14.

Since the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre in Israel, the parent petitioners — Leah Wiseman Fink, Shy Galor, Irina Marciano, and Jennifer Kleinman — said they were booted from meetings, their social media and Zoom comments were deleted, and they were blocked from the CEC’s social media pages.

Marciano applied for a seat on the board, but has received no notice about a vote, effectively impeding her from joining, the appeal states.

The controversial CEC, led by President Tajh Sutton, has come under fire for exclusionary and political actions, including its promotion of an anti-Israel student walkout in November.

It canceled its last two monthly meetings, claiming it received threats for advocating for a ceasefire in Gaza.

“This case is not about the First Amendment rights of the CEC 14 members; they can express their personal, political views through media associated with their personal accounts,” the petition states. “And this is not a case about the merits of Israeli or Palestinian legal or political positions.”

The bodies exist to “establish educational policies and objectives,” not to “take positions on military conflicts half a world away,” the filing reads.

Social media posts from the council have called Zionists “settler colonizers” and “white supremacists,” the petition states.

It also calls for orders forbidding the CEC to use its platform to communicate opinions about the war, and requiring that Jews and Israelis be able to express their opinions equally.

The petition follows a separate lawsuit filed in Brooklyn federal court last week alleging that CEC 14 has violated the First Amendment rights of parents with differing views.

The DOE and CEC 14 did not immediately respond to inquiries.