A virtual seminar for New York City and New Jersey educators has sparked outrage after promoting strategies to “get around censorship” when teaching students about the “Israeli occupation” and “ongoing genocide in Gaza.” The event, hosted by NYC Educators for Palestine and Teaching While Muslim, openly aimed to provide teachers with lesson plans and resources to inject anti-Zionist propaganda into their classrooms.
Critics, including Bronx Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres, have slammed the event as antisemitic and divisive, accusing organizers of promoting a one-sided narrative that delegitimizes Israel and perpetuates harmful stereotypes.
Tova Plaut, founder of NYCPS Alliance, said that educators with little knowledge of Jewish experiences and Israel’s history were being encouraged to teach skewed information, further embedding antisemitism in children.
The event featured breakout rooms led by teachers who shared lessons incorporating “the cause,” including a fifth-grade lesson on decimals using Palestinian olive harvesting and a “human rights lens” applied to middle school poetry teachings. Recommended materials included content from Al Jazeera, and a lesson on Zionism described it as “colonial” in nature.
Organizers encouraged participants to use fake names or blur their video due to paranoid fear of “conservative Zionist individuals” who might “dox attendees.” The event also covered how to “get around censorship” and featured a panel of organizers and legal experts, including Rabab Abdulhadi, a San Francisco professor and activist who has linked the Israeli flag to “racial supremacist political messaging.”
The NYC Department of Education refused to intervene in the event, despite its open antisemitism and participating teachers being provided a collection of lessons to use with their students which were not approved by the DOE.
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Keep in mind. These are all Biden voters.
They have the freedom of speech, but they do not have the right to teach this poison in the classroom; that is up to the Board of Ed. The city does not have to be neutral; it is entitled to take a position for Israel and to require all public school teachers to stand by that position in the classroom. The Board of Ed ought to have warned all teachers in advance that anyone attending this event would be presumed to intend to teach material that is against city policy, and would therefore be fired.
It’s all the zionists.
If not for them, everything would be better.
The Muslims are our friends. It’s the Christians who are our enemies.
Zionism flips everything upside-down.
America doesn’t fit into Israel. nor do those in America fit into Israel if they remain behind…..
The fact that a significant part of the establishment, especially in Blue States such as New York and New Jersey, are for all purpose Nazis, should be a warning to us, and to the zionists (who have been largely dependent on American support, both from the government and from the now threatened American Jewish community). At the very least, the frum community should consider migration out of “blue” states, and the Israelis should plan on becoming able to defend themselves without foreign assistance.
I bet they all wore masks even though it was virtual.
What are we doing about it?
I feel that all the Jewish organizations should create a task force to educate the teachers and students on the FACTS about Israel.
The students are being brainwashed by these lies and propaganda.
“Happy New Year”: The Muslims are our friends. It’s the Christians who are our enemies.
That is not true at all. The historical record of Jewish life in dar-al-Islam and in Christendom is much of a muchness. Both had good times and bad. Neither oppressed us significantly more or less than the other. But the significant difference is that Christians believe in the Torah, so when they read ואברכה מברכך they believe it, and that is why nowadays, at least in Western countries, large numbers of them love us. Whereas Moslems don’t believe in the Torah and claim we made it up, and we wrote that possuk to suit ourselves, so they will always hate us.