A Chelsea high school social worker whose job is to help keep students safe from bullying is facing criticism after allegedly posting images of beetles in response to a Facebook video of Orthodox Jews celebrating Lag B’Omer. Critics said the beetle imagery echoed Nazi propaganda, and the posts have put new scrutiny on Lauren Camiolo’s role at Landmark High School.
Camiolo serves as the Respect for All liaison at the school, a position tied to a program designed to fight bullying and help schools maintain safe learning environments that are supportive, inclusive and free from discrimination, harassment and intimidation. The controversy centers on allegations that she posted beetle images four different times in response to the Lag B’Omer video, a Jewish holiday that commemorates the death of one of the founders of Jewish mysticism, or Kabbalah.
The criticism sharpened because of what others said the images recalled. Karen Feldman called the imagery a dangerous and antisemitic trope from Nazi Germany, while Moshe Spern said Hitler often described Jewish people as insects and pests. Their comments turned a social media dispute into a much larger question about whether someone tasked with supporting students in a diverse public school can also be seen amplifying symbols that many Jewish readers would recognize as dehumanizing.
The Facebook activity attributed to Camiolo stretches beyond the beetle posts. Records show she wrote on March 18, 2025, over an image that appeared to show the Ten Commandments, “Genocide bloodshed of women & children on holy land by colonizers in the name of God that they will never know.” On July 30, 2025, she posted, “Chosen people do not steal & harvest they create.” On Oct. 20, 2025, she wrote, “Zionism is cult a group of people incapable of thinking for themselves.” Two days later, she posted, “Victim syndrome of white colonizers is an art how do you rationalize the blood of children.” In November 2024, she wrote that “Three key success of #whitemediocracy colonization, genocide, & culture appropriation #Blackwomeninwhitefields,” and captioned a photo of Hillary Clinton greeting Benjamin Netanyahu, “never trust a white woman.”
Those posts gave the criticism a wider frame. The DOE employee’s social media also included anti-Israel comments and anti-white racism, according to the material reviewed, and David Bernstein said the concerns extend beyond one offensive post. “When the person responsible for ‘Respect for All’ expresses hostility toward Jews or white students, it raises serious concerns about both the educator and the school system in which she works,” he said. The department’s title alone makes the matter harder to dismiss: Landmark’s liaison role is meant to support the same anti-bullying values that the posts appear to undercut.
The dispute arrives at a time when schools are under pressure to show that their inclusion programs are more than labels. Landmark High School is one of more than 1,800 schools tied to the Respect for All framework, and Camiolo’s salary of $115,665 underscores how public schools pay educators to carry out those duties. The question now is not whether a social media storm erupted. It is whether a staff member responsible for a program built to protect vulnerable students can keep that role after posts critics say echo one of history’s most familiar antisemitic images.
