‘Bx. teach’ ax over Mideast

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has claimed two casualties at the pricey Riverdale Country School.

Two history teachers lost their jobs at the Bronx private school after a parental uprising over how they communicated alleged antiIsrael views to students.

“We have looked into questions that were raised about the conduct of a very small number of faculty members and have initiated conversations with the faculty both broadly and specifically about the most effective and appropriate ways to deal with controversial subjects,” according to a letter to parents sent last week by Riverdale headmaster Dominic Randolph and board chairman David Westin. “As a result of these events, two faculty members will not be returning in September.”

The teachers were identified by a source as Shawn Redden and Joel Doerfler.

Controversy at the school erupted in May after Israeli soldiers killed 60 Palestinians at the Gaza border. The terror group Hamas said most of those killed were its members.

Redden, according to one parent, went on a classroom tirade against Israel and verbally attacked students. Redden denied this. The school had suspended him with pay.

Parents were also upset about a 2016 talk given by Doerfler that was published on the pro-Palestinian Mondoweiss Web site.

Doerfler said “there exists at Riverdale, and in the culture at large, assertive, influential and highly emotional supporters of Israel and of pretty much everything it does and has done, who are hell-bent on stifling . . . academic investigation.”

Redden declined to comment. Doerfler did not respond to a request for comment.