TEACHERS’ UNIONS, UGH: Despite the Holocaust, ‘competitive victimhood’ is a loser for Jews.
A previous version of the bill required that “instructional materials regarding Jews, Israel, or the Israel-Palestine conflict” be “balanced, accurate, don’t promote antisemitism and don’t label Israel as a settler colonial state,” she reports.
As amended, the law simply calls for all lessons to be “be factually accurate.” That doesn’t sound wild and crazy, but it could stifle learning, said a California Teachers Association official. “Teacher discourse on Palestine or the genocide in Gaza will be policed, misrepresented, and reported to the antisemitism coordinator,” Theresa Montaño with the California Faculty Association said in a statement.
Presumption of a genocide despite all evidence to the contrary.