Teachers 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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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.
Will an Education Union Turn Against Israel?
Algemeiner – Some members of the National Education Association (NEA) — the largest labor union in the country — want to turn America’s public school teachers against Israel. The NEA has over three million members, and exercises profound influence over America’s public schools. If certain NEA members are able to turn the union against Israel, there will be an indoctrination campaign against the Jewish state unlike any before seen in the US school system.