A Fairfax, Virginia, school board member recommended curriculum materials for teachers to use for their lesson plans which opposed using terms such as "radical Islamic terror," "Islamic terrorists" and "jihadists" when discussing the history of the Sept. 11 attacks. 

Abrar Omeish is a school board member and Georgetown law student who has become marred in controversy over a series of controversial statements. In one instance, she refused to vote on a motion to commemorate 9/11 victims. 

Fox News Digital found that in 2021 Omeish recommended public school teachers use a "culturally responsive" curriculum guide for their lesson plans about 9/11 history. 

It said, "Do not frame the lessons as a chance to explore the definition of terrorism or a clash of two different societies/cultures." 

"There is much disagreement about what terrorism means, and it’s often used in a biased manner," the guide continued. 

Teachers should screen themselves for biases against Arab-Muslims using an online test before educating students on 9/11, it recommended. To create a "safe space" teachers should "wear cultural items from Muslim countries as a show of support (e.g., scarf)."

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In order to be "culturally responsive," teachers should focus "on the impact of 9/11 on communities of color, including Muslim Americans," the guide said. 

Teachers should bring up "Islamophobia at the structural level (policies that were enacted at national, state, and local levels) and individual level (policies at the individual level, outside of government)."

"Muslim communities… responses of resilience but also depression and anxiety" should also be raised about the topic. 

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Fox News Digital reached out to Omeish for comment but did not immediately receive a response.

Omeish was accused of attacking 9/11 victims after she refused to vote on a resolution to honor the lives of 2,977 Americans killed by al-Qaida terrorists on 9/11. 

The resolution was not "anti-racist" enough and failed to address "state-sponsored traumas" experienced by Muslims, she appeared to suggest. A local Fairfax County editorial board called the rhetoric "callous."

The local GOP called for Omeish's ouster, stating, "Her cruel attacks on the memory of 9/11’s victims and heroes should be the last straw. They were not just incredibly tone deaf — they were vicious and, frankly, anti-American."

Omeish said, "I vote against this today, because our omission of these realities causes harm. We're levitating a traumatic event without sufficient cultural competence. The token phrasing around 9/11 is 'Never Forget.' As a nation we remember a jarring event, no doubt, but we chose to forget, as this resolution does, the fear, the ostracization, and the collective blame felt by Arab Americans, American Muslims, Sikhs, and Hindus and all brown or other individuals that have been mistaken for Muslims since that day over the past two decades." 

"Why are we forgetting the experience of these families, their traumas?' Omeish asked. "I hope we can include these components in our broader anti-racist, [and] anti-bias work." 

Omeish was also named in a complaint to the Department of Education Office of Civil Rights by the Zionist Organization of America on anti-Semitism in Fairfax. The DOE agreed to investigate anti-Semitism in Fairfax as a result of the letter. 

In May 2021, Omeish tweeted that Israel "desecrates the Holy Land" and engages in "apartheid and colonization" as its civilian areas were bombarded with Hamas rockets.

"Anyone who thinks Israel is an apartheid state is either historically illiterate with no understanding of how apartheid operated in South Africa or is willfully lying in the name of demonizing Israel. Some Fairfax County residents demanded the School Board censure Omeish for her comments," Virginia's 11th Congressional District GOP Chairman Michael Ginsberg told Fox News. 

The executive director of the pro-school choice EdReform Virginia, Nathan Brinkman, said the woke agenda Omeish is pushing shows the importance of school choice: 

"To be fair, some families might actually want Omeish's 'woke' social justice worldview to inform their kids' education. That would be fine, as long as the rest of us are free to send our kids — and our kids' educational tax dollars — to schools that reflect our values, too."

On Thursday, and soon after the 78th anniversary of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima, Omeish called the battle "unfortunate" and "evil" during a school board meeting. 

The Battle of Iwo Jima – which lasted from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1945 – was a significant victory for the U.S. during World War II. Nearly 7,000 American service members were killed while trying to capture the island from Japan.

"Just a few days ago was Japanese Day of Remembrance," Omeish said during the meeting. "Something for us to certainly reflect on … the days when, you know, Iwo Jima unfortunately happened and set a record for really what, I hate to say, human evil is capable of."

Following the controversy over her remarks, Omeish released a statement to Fox News.

"I would like to set the record straight," she said. "Before the battle at Iwo Jima in Feb 1945, Japan knew it could not defend the island, but its Government still demanded its military forces to fight to the death. Even though Lieutenant General Kuribayashi knew there was no possibility of winning the battle, Prime Minster Hideki Tojo sent him on a suicidal mission to inflict as many casualties as possible on allied forces and to never surrender. The unnecessary spilling of blood was not right."

"At the same time, our own Government also knew in Feb 1945 that the overwhelming number of 120,000 incarcerated Japanese Americans posed no threat to American security," she added. "By that time, the Japanese American 442 Infantry Regiment was already well on its way to becoming the most decorated American military unit in WWII. The refusal of our own Government to release the Japanese prisoners was and should continue to be condemned. Our government’s actions were also not right. During the school board meeting, I mentioned both points to nuance our discussion regarding these events."

Fox News' Andrea Vacchiano contributed to this report. 

A local Democrat promised to attend a city council meeting to apologize for complaining about the cost of special education for children with disabilities who are not aborted, but he skipped out after irate parents and disability advocates announced a protest.

Michael Hugo, the chair of the Framingham Democratic Committee said during a Feb. 7, Framingham, Massachusetts, city council meeting that special needs children who aren't aborted are a financial drain to the school system. In a letter to the council the same night, he promised to attend the next meeting to apologize in person, then issued a written apology to the public after 10 days of backlash

"I thought he would be here this evening because he said he would be here this evening and would apologize publicly," city council chair Philip Ottaviani said during Tuesday's meeting. "I know he mentioned the other night he'd be in D.C., and tonight he texted me that he was in D.C. and unable to attend."

Hugo told Fox News he hadn't planned to attend the meeting. He said he was at a dinner reception with senators and members of Congress and that he was in Washington, D.C. to request additional funding for various local programs. 

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Hugo, added that he was confused about when the Framingham City council met.

Hugo declined to make himself available for an interview.

Ottaviani said during Tuesday's meeting that if he made remarks like Hugo's, "there would be people calling for me to leave the room and not come back."

"My wife would be telling me the same thing," he added

Hugo’s initial comments concerned a potential city council proclamation about access to abortion and crisis pregnancy centers in Framingham. He expressed concern over unborn babies having misdiagnosed defects that may lead to a disabled child being born and causing strain on a school budget.

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"That becomes a very local issue because our school budget will have to absorb the cost of a child in special education, supplying lots and lots of special services to the children who were born with the defect," Hugo said at the Feb. 7 meeting.

Immediately afterward, Hugo sent a letter to the council stating that he would attend the next meeting. 

"I intend to appear before the City Council in your next meeting to personally apologize for the way my statement sounded, and to offer a more detailed explanation," he wrote in the Feb. 7 letter.

On Feb. 17, Hugo apologized to the Framingham Democratic Committee and to members of the Massachusetts city's disability family community, calling his comments "offensive and hurtful." Hugo said the committee did not review his planned remarks, although he sent them out the night before the city council meeting.

The Framingham Democratic Committee rejected a motion on Sunday to include a discussion about potentially removing Hugo at a future meeting, though the members voted unanimously to condemn his remarks. Ottaviani, the city council chair who's also a member of the committee, voted in favor of the effort.

"If Mr. Hugo had stepped down and we had leadership on the Framingham Dems, this would have gone away," Ottaviani said during Tuesday's city council meeting. "All I wanted was a discussion to move forward but its loud and clear that no one is resigning."

Shortly before Tuesday's city council meeting — the one Hugo initially said he'd attend — community members, parents and local officials protested outside city hall in to show support for the disability community.

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Mike Cannon, a Democratic city councilman who attended the protest, told Fox News that the Framingham Democratic Committee's failure to pass a motion just discussing dismissing Huge "send a strong message to a lot of people in our community that maybe those comments haven’t been as strongly dismissed as they should’ve been."

"I think that group needs a change of chair and a change of executive committee," Cannon added.

Hugo, who was in Washington D.C. during the meeting, also declined to Zoom into the meeting.

In a text message provided to Fox News, Ottaviani asked Hugo during the meeting if he would be calling in. 

"I am in DC and I am unable to join you. I issued my apology the night of your meeting and am not going to belabor the issue further. I am at a dinner reception for a couple of Congress members and 3 senators," Hugo replied.

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Cannon told Fox News that it is very common for guests and members to Zoom into meetings.

"I expected him to come or at the very least dial in, anyone can connect via Zoom," Cannon told Fox News. "Based on what I hear from the community, this issue does not appear to be going away."

Hugo's absence meant that he missed opinions from angry parents during Tuesday's city council meeting.

"A well-educated attorney should never think that a woman that gives birth to a child with a disability has just produced a burden," said Cheryl Caira, whose daughter went through the Framingham public school system with down syndrome.

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Susie Santone a disabled woman from Framingham at the protest, said she was upset about critics making the situation a partisan issue.

"It’s not about Democrat, it's not about Republican, it’s about the children," she said. "People are so entrenched in the political side of it that they are forgetting about the children."

"You can apologize as much as you want but you have to back it up," Santone added. "If you’re going to make an apology there has to be an action behind the apology otherwise they’re just blank words and there has been no action."

She added that Hugo should step down to show "he understands the impact that his comment made."

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And Jannett Leombruno, the city council's vice chair who also attended the protest, said many community members didn't feel Hugo's apology was enough. She said he should resign.

"These kids have a right to be born," she added, getting emotional. "We need to stand up for them."

Jon Fetherston, who organized the demonstration, told Fox News he was disappointed Hugo did not show up.

"His insincere apology and ability to not even come and face the city council tonight shows you the true character of Michael Hugo. His character is flawed and I’m extremely disappointed," Fetherston said. "It just proved once again that his apology is extremely disingenuous."

"He didn’t even have the dignity to pick up the phone and call and apologize to the city council, so I think his actions speak so much louder than his pathetic words," Fetherston added.

Hugo’s term expires in April 2024.

Fox News reached out to Hugo for comment about why he didn’t attend the meeting. He responded with a photo of a Congressional House Office Building pass dated March 1. 

"I am here to ask for increased local funding for housing, nutrition, mental healthcare and educational mental health and nutritional services," Hugo said in a followup email. "I am here to do the work and as much as I wanted to be able to be at the council meeting last night, I have responsibilities to people who I can advocate for and who are unable to advocate for themselves."

He did not explain why he didn't Zoom into the meeting or if he will attend a future meeting.

To learn more about the backlash to Hugo, click here.