A top US private school in northern Virginia has settled a lawsuit over its expulsion of three Jewish students after their parents complained about repeated antisemitic bullying, lawyers for the parents and the state attorney general said on Tuesday.

The Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law and Dillon PLLC in July filed a complaint against the Nysmith School for the Gifted, located an hour outside of Washington, DC, saying the expulsion violated the Virginia Human Rights Act.

Nysmith is considered one of the best elementary schools in the United States and charges an annual tuition of more than $46,000 per year. It is not clear how many of its approximately 500 students are Jewish.

According to the complaint, bullies taunted the 11-year-old daughter of Brian Vazquez and Ashok Roy for being “Israeli,” called Jews “baby killers,” and said they deserved to die because of what is happening in Gaza.

“The bullies told their daughter that everyone at the school is against Jews and Israel, which is why they hate you,” the Brandeis Center said in a statement. “The other children also taunted her about the death of her uncle, saying that they were glad he died in the October 7th attack, even though he had died years earlier.”

According to the complaint, the sixth-grade girl’s history class had created a large artistic image of Adolf Hitler to represent an image of a “strong historical leader” in October 2024. The parents spoke with other parents about the matter and decided not to complain at the time, assuming it was an isolated instance of poor judgment, the complaint said.

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