LOWER MERION TOWNSHIP, Pa. (KYW Newsradio) — A federal judge is letting a discrimination case move forward, brought by two former Friends’ Central School teachers who were fired over controversy about a Palestinian speaker.
Former Friends’ Central teachers Ariel Eure and Layla Helwa were fired in 2017 after a Palestinian professor was invited to speak at the Main Line Quaker school, then uninvited after parents objected.
“My position is that they were scapegoated and defamed,” said Mark Schwartz, the lawyer representing the former teachers.