Former Director of the Arab school case dismissed in New York

A lawsuit by the founding principal of an Arabic-language school in Brooklyn have been dismissed.

Debbie Almontaser, the former director of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, had claimed his right to the First Amendment were violated when she was fired in 2007.

Almontaser had commented in a New York Post about a shirt with the word "intifada" in it. She said the word had a violent origin and literally means "shaking".

The shirts were sold by a group affiliated with the school, but Almontaser’s comments sparked an avalanche of complaints to city officials.

Federal Judge Sidney Stein dismissed the case Tuesday, saying Almontaser made his comments as an administrator and therefore was not protected by the First Amendment.

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