Students at an elite Manhattan school named for the United Nations have been expelled after drawing swastikas in yearbooks — but the press is treating this as a simple discipline story, not a reckoning with what a "global citizenship" education actually produces.

The United Nations International School, a pre-K through 12 institution catering largely to diplomats' children, concluded its investigation Thursday into eighth-graders who scrawled swastikas and other hate symbols across more than 30 yearbooks. Head of school Dan Brenner informed parents that "all students found to have participated in this incident have been held accountable," with consequences ranging from counseling and probation to expulsion. "Each case was viewed individually with a range of imposed consequences, including students not returning to our community," Brenner wrote.

Spokesperson Lupe Todd-Medina would not specify how many were expelled, telling the New York Post only that "fewer than 15 kids" were involved.

Brenner framed the incident as standing "in direct opposition to our mission to educate young people to make the world a better place and to foster understanding, respect, empathy, and global citizenship." There is the tell. A school named after the body that lectures sovereign nations about human rights is producing kids who draw swastikas — and the stated cure is more of the same medicine that made the sickness.

A Jewish father at UNIS backed the expulsions, telling the Post: "This needed to be done. They made the correct move — they became educators again. It's the first step towards change to kick a few kids out. I would do the same."

But a Manhattan private school consultant cut through the institutional posturing. "The school doesn't care. They don't care because antisemitism is bad — and that's the problem. They only care because they got caught." The consultant called UNIS "the laziest private school in the city," adding: "It's kids of UN workers. All they want to do is get through this school and go to the Sorbonne."

That dismissal tracks with the school's documented record. In February, a longtime Jewish teacher at UNIS filed a discrimination lawsuit alleging administrators ignored her complaints of antisemitism and retaliated against her for raising them. The pattern is plain: the institution's public posture of tolerance cracks the moment nobody is watching.

The Post covered the expulsions and the consultant's blunt assessment. CBS News, for its part, ran a completely unrelated story about summer break safety at Elk Grove schools in Sacramento — no coverage of the UNIS incident at all. The establishment press either treats this as a closed case or ignores it entirely. Neither approach answers the question ordinary Americans should be asking: what happens when you educate children inside a system built on the premise that certain groups sit above criticism while the rest are fair game? Alienation is the product. Swastikas are the symptom.

UNIS sits in Turtle Bay, steps from the UN headquarters — the very institution that presumes to define human rights for the world. Its school now has a paper trail of antisemitism complaints, a federal lawsuit, and eighth-graders who thought drawing the symbol of industrialized murder was a joke for the yearbook. The expulsions are done. The culture that produced them remains untouched.