Students from Muslim Student Association (MSA) chapters at Langley High School and Thomas Jefferson High School in Northern Virginia recently filmed videos mimicking kidnappings to promote their club, hooding classmates with keffiyehs and throwing them into car trunks.
In one video, Langley students lifted a classmate into a trunk and sped off while others joked about joining the club. Another clip from Thomas Jefferson showed a student’s head wrapped in a keffiyeh and another stuffed into a plastic bin. Classmates dragged both away as others filmed.
The footage spread online before the students deleted it, but not before it stunned local community members. The videos reflect a wider trend in which violence against Jews has become casual, viral, and disturbingly normalized.
🇺🇸 In Virginia, students from the Muslim Student Association filmed videos reenacting Hamas kidnappings to promote their club.
Deeply disturbing to see teenagers casually act out something so horrific. pic.twitter.com/KbzOCd3jqJ
— Combat Antisemitism Movement (@CombatASemitism) October 29, 2025
“Traumatizing and Chilling”
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) condemned the videos as violent and traumatizing. “These videos depict violence, including kidnappings, with victims being hooded and placed in the trunk of a car, among other things,” the district said. Officials stressed how the scenes hurt Jewish students and staff still haunted by the October 7th massacre in Israel, when more than 250 Israelis were kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and taken to Gaza.
FCPS said students who broke conduct rules would face disciplinary action.
“It’s almost chilling to see teenagers so lively acting out something that is so horrific,” said Guila Franklin Siegel, CEO of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Washington. “Parents are beyond outraged.”
CAIR Defends the Indefensible
Several Thomas Jefferson students reportedly received suspensions. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned the decision, claiming it was discriminatory. “The video mirrors a popular trend of students promoting their events on campuses across the country,” CAIR wrote. The group claimed the school’s response stemmed from “racist tropes and stereotypes about Muslims and Arabs.”
The national MSA did not comment.
Turning Jewish Trauma Into a Joke
These skits were not harmless. They mirrored the kidnappings Hamas terrorists carried out on October 7th — a day marked by barbarity and grief. To turn that horror into humor is not ignorance; it is moral collapse. Mocking Jewish pain so soon after the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust is not “insensitive.” It is antisemitism — plain, deliberate, and unmasked.
Accountability Must Have Moral Weight
Condemnation alone is not enough. Fairfax County Public Schools must pair its words with courage and consequence. Schools must confront this rot directly — through real education about antisemitism and the moral lines no one can cross.
Fighting antisemitism requires more than policy, it demands conviction — the courage to name evil and refuse to look away. Because this was not just a lapse in judgment. It was the glorification of terror, broadcast from American classrooms.
Hate doesn’t always shout. Sometimes it smiles for the camera — and that’s arguably when it’s most dangerous.
