Education InstituteTeachers Unions, created to protect educators’ rights, have too often become vehicles for activists to introduce anti-Zionist polemics into K-12 classrooms. CAMERA monitors, researches and exposes these activities.
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This is Where We Are Now
Jewish Book Council – A first-person account by a Jewish American book author of the cancellation of a children’s literature panel at the recent NCTE conference in Boston. The planned session in which she was to be a panelist was meant to highlight role of literature in promoting unity. Instead, it was cancelled because of disunity, when Jewish participants did not share the Arab panelists’ desire to politicize the session with a discussion of the war in Gaza and the “ongoing genocide” perpetrated by Israel.
Radicals Tried and Failed to Expel CAMERA From A Teachers’ Convention
CAMERA – A call for book-burning at the 2024 NCTE annual convention highlights the attempt by anti-Zionist activists to control the narrative. After failing to pressure the NCTE into cancelling CAMERA’s inclusion in the convention with defamatory claims against CEI, the same activists are now campaigning to stigmatize the teacher’s council.
Teachers Union Threatens To Sue Critics After Putting Radical Activist In Charge of Israel Curriculum
The Daily Wire – The Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) is threatening to sue Republican state lawmakers who condemned its appointment of Ricardo Rosa, citing his anti-Israel and anti-American rhetoric. CAMERA’s Jany Finkielsztein told the Daily Wire that her proposal for a teacher workshop was likely rejected by the MTA due to conflicts with Rosa’s narrative.
“Turning Classrooms Into Arenas Of Radicalism”: Teachers Union Tasks Anti-Israel Activist To Create Curriculum About Israel
The Daily Wire – Jany Finkielsztein, a former instructional coach for the Waltham public schools who retired last year and is a senior education analyst with CAMERA Education Institute, said Rosa’s social media posts about the United States and Israel reveal his “commitment to transforming classrooms into arenas of radicalism.”
MTA Fights Racism with Anti-Semitism?
Minding the Campus – Just two months after the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) voted in favor of a ceasefire resolution labeling Israel’s defensive war against Hamas as “a genocidal war on the Palestinian people,” the union has once again engaged in the demonization and delegitimization of Israel.
CAMERA Education Institute Statement on Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) Webinar
CAMERA – Just two months after the Massachusetts Teachers Association voted in favor of a ceasefire resolution labeling Israel’s defensive war against Hamas as “a genocidal war on the Palestinian people,” the union has once again engaged in the demonization and delegitimization of Israel.
The National Education Association Has No Business Platforming Hate
JNS – Three biased new business items to be voted on at the National Education Association (NEA) annual conference distort the facts about Israel and could help fuel anti-Semitism, making schools less safe for Jewish teachers and students.
Nation’s Largest Teachers’ Union Will Debate Resolution Accusing Israel of ‘Ethnic Cleansing’
Washington Free Beacon – Three local unions affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, the country’s second-largest teachers’ union, passed statements in June condemning Israel as an apartheid state. Two resolutions aimed at boycotting Israel and recognizing a Palestinian state will be debated at the nation’s largest union at a conference this week.
