Jess Sadick, Senior Education Analyst
Rethinking Schools’ Don’t Stop Teaching About Gaza presents itself as an instructional guide for educators, but its pages reveal something troubling – a politicized call to teachers to substitute activism for accuracy and advocacy for education. Rather than equip teachers to help students think critically about a complex and difficult conflict, the magazine advances a onesided narrative grounded in disinformation, emotional manipulation, and pressure on educators to adopt and model a partisan political agenda. Part one of CAMERA Education’s analysis of Don’t Stop Teaching About Gaza focused on the magazine’s appropriation of Judaism to demonize Israel and Jews. The second part of the series highlights two additional themes common to several of the magazine’s articles: 1) using disinformation to stoke anger at Israel and 2) convincing teachers that it is their moral duty to turn their students into the next generation of social justice activists who advocate against Israel.
