”So I brought a Palestinian flag and I ask for a big round of applause.”His audience applauded as instructed. Mayor Jorge Macri, elected in 2023, is a member of Propuesta Republicana, a center-right political party that has allied with President Javier Milei, a personal and political supporter of Israel. A cousin of the party’s leader Mauricio Macri, a past mayor of Buenos Aires who was president of Argentina from 2015 to 2019, Jorge Macri was endorsed by Milei. “What happened in this school is very serious and the person responsible will be sanctioned with the full weight of the regulations,” Macri tweeted. Teachers unions in the United States and beyond have long been a frontier of tension over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, dating before the current war in Gaza.