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The Zinn Education Project (ZEP) bills itself as a grassroots, educational initiative promoting a more “inclusive” approach to history. However, scrutiny of its curriculum exposes a pattern of radical indoctrination targeting K-12 students. The Project distorts history and employs deceptive jargon to advance an anti-American, anti-white, and anti-Israel agenda.
In response to the increasing prevalence of ideologically driven perspectives in K–12 classrooms, CAMERA and Stop Hate in Schools have developed a database and interactive map that tracks the influence of some of the most prominent curriculum providers advancing these perspectives in school districts across the country.
On social media, Palestinian children’s book author and content creator Jenan Matari makes baseless allegations against and fantasizes about the disappearance of the world’s only Jewish state, Israel, while deriding American “arrogance” and “imperialism.” Meanwhile, publisher Penguin Random House has contracted with Matari to co-author a children’s book about Palestinians, set to publish this fall.
CAMERA — A new resource featuring a selection of common chants and visual symbols that appear in pro-Palestinian protests and highlighting the disruptive impact they can have on the school environment.
CAMERA — The appropriation and evolution of the black-and-white keffiyeh by the pro-Palestinian movement has resulted in an unavoidable association with terrorism and Islamist violence, as the garment is increasingly found in classrooms and during student protests on school grounds.
CAMERA condemned the response of William Diamond Middle School leadership after the school principal apologized to students who said a mandatory lesson on the Holocaust left them feeling excluded or unsafe.
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