Thank you Francesca Block. The rot in K-12 has been going on some time and our communal organizations such as ADL and others have been asleep at the wheel. Our colleges & universities are now the “finishing” schools for these rascist, ahistorical teaching. The only option is universal school choice to help break the progressive indoctrination. A new Administration and BOE focused on this may assist but it will take a generation to course correct. And that’s if we’re lucky.
I can assure you, that Iran succeeds in building the bomb and using it, these same schools and teachers will be celebrating. It’s sick, sad and incredible that our Education system aids, abets and traffics in this antisemetic circus. Again, thanks for your reporting.
As I've noticed the rise of Christian nationalism in conservative an libertarian circles, I've wondered why Jews [I'm Jewish] aren't making more of an effort to find common ground with these people. Liberal Jews have been brainwashed along with these kids, that any sort of Christian or nationalist rhetoric is "far-right propaganda". Also, they hate to admit they're on the wrong team now. But it is only the Christian nationalist types who feel the same sense of urgency as the radical Muslims; only they are standing against the suicidal progressive march into chaos. When leftists try to blame the rise of antisemitism on Trump, they should try to picture which of our politicians are most likely to endorse the message, "Globalize the intifada". Spoiler alert: They're all on the blue team.
What's really behind this trend is old-fashioned Marxist class warfare, which many academics happen to be swayed by. It irks many professors and admin types to no end that they are not running society, with their superior knowledge and clever opinions. The destruction of a productive society is brought about by replacing a culture of ambition and aspiration with one of envy and resentment to anyone who is successful. Academics are often [but not always] willing participants in such ideology, as many despise the fact that they didn't naturally float to the top of the social heap by virtue signaling alone.
Good God! This is one of the scariest things I have read in years, & there's been a lot of bad stuff. How on earth did the people perpetrating this hateful stuff get into their positions and who is letting them get away with this? The sane majority must stand up against this stuff - racism & antisemitism is never, ever, ok and the thought that kids are being indoctrinated like this without anyone shutting it down is chilling. It does, however, explain the large, revolting protests that we have seen since October 7th. Thank you for shining a light on this. Never Again needs to mean something!
The communists of old advised their followers to win the minds of the children at the earliest age possible. This ensured their loyalty in adulthood. Have not the rich Arab oligarchies followed the advice of the communists?
If so, did the largesse faire of the last 20 years or more create the opportunity for Arab oligarchs to re-educate the children of America to their advantage? It seems so.
How do we change American education from servitude to foreign oligarchs to service to American traditions? How do we purge this from our society. If we do not I'm certain of end of land of the free and home of the brave.
I should clarify, I meant to say in the educational systems of those places. Their citizens are usually at the mercy of an educational establishment that gets everything it wants.
Not surprised but anyone who has spent any time in any of these blue-leaning areas owes at least a bit of responsibility for creating this nonsensical environment. I used to live in a town near Westport and the prevailing mantra is always "Be Nice." You see enough "in this house we believe..." yard signs to last a lifetime. Meanwhile, guess who's laughing? The Chinese, who are busy equipping their kids in math and science while our own educators argue about the "racist content" in those subjects.
"One senior educator in the district, who is Jewish, told The Free Press she was “appalled” by the poster. “It’s clearly connected to the ethnic tropes of Jews having big noses. Quite frankly, it reminded me of Nazi comics. I had a visceral reaction to it. It was antisemitic.”"
For a person of Arab descent to post this raises the possibility that she was trying to educate students that people like her also have noses that don't that aren't the same shape as white noses, and that it doesn't matter matter. I don't see this as inherently anti-Semitic. These days, after generations of intermarriage, a great number of American Jews don't have "Jewish noses."
The other reports in this article are appalling and alarming. However, I would encourage Jewish readers to read up on the other sides arguments and historical accounts. No Jew is harmed by knowing in detail what the other side is thinking. The works of Rashid Khalidi, and the Israelis Ilan Pappé and Benny Morris, are important works.
What irks me is that college administrators university administrations decided that it was necessary to take a stand on the current conflict. It appears to me that that led to a whole lot of unneccessary grief. Campuses are for inquiry, but all verbal and physical harassment is off-limits, and offenders should be quickly and significantly sanctioned. The administration of Yale was very derelict in its handling of the harassment of the Professors Christakis in 2015.
Civic life is different after the invention of the cell phone. We must find ways to recapture a civil discourse
DEI is racism. Plessy vs Fergusen has nothing on these freaks. Break this thing in a million pieces. Point out the bigots for who they are, prejudicial hate filled people. These elitist racist freaks have wreaked havoc on society and need to be shunned by society.
Harvard thought this was a good idea- great hire with President Gay! Immigration policy is 'racist'. Mayor Adams in NYC seems to be seeing the light. Using race as means to manipulate people has royally backfired hurting all. He has hurt people of his city and the migrants under the 'anti-racist' banner. Suburban liberal moms hang your head in shame, you are now the proud parents of antisemites. Or maybe change and realize you made bad ideological choices that now have ugly consequences.
I feel sorry for American Jews. I think Jews who think anti-antisemitic ads, or whatever, are going to lessen antisemitism are kidding themselves. Right-wing antisemites will hate Jews to eternity the same way their ancestors hated them when they lynched and burned Leo Frank in Atlanta as if he were black, the same way they did when they marched through the UVA campus with a Nazi parade of torches and shouts of "Jews will not replace us." The same way they did when they invented the insane theory that the tiny Jewish minority is plotting to "replace" the 58% of other "whites" in our population. And left-wing antisemites, a much smaller group, just as the Ivies have many fewer students than state universities for the masses have, will forever see Israelis Jews as the colonial, apartheid "oppressors" of the Palestinians. Jewish attempts to change these mass American views will get nowhere, and will be further undermined by the daily scenes of Gazan fathers carrying the broken bodies of their kids from the ruins of Gazan buildings, taking them to hospitals to be operated on without anesthetics. For dessert, Zionist American Jews face a growing generation gap within both Jewish and Gentile America, in which younger Americans in both groups break with older ones because of radically different historical experiences, as well as the much higher level of assimilation into secular American culture by the Jewish young, especially at our best universities, which are unstoppably progressive and thus tilted against Bibi's Israel, and which are the places young Jews matriculate in disproportionate numbers. Jews obviously have gigantic financial power in America, but much less power to shape mass public opinion, right or left.
This problem in teaching goes beyond antisemitism and includes many other aspects of teaching. A big question to me is "How did these ingnorant and arrogant people become teachers (and administrators and principals and professors and trustees) with the mission to indoctrinate?" We have to answer that question and correct the problem at its source.
Frankly, I find articles like this so incredibly frightening. To read that the majority of our young people see Jews as oppressors and Israel as a colonizer is unfathomable. How can such things be permitted to be taught in our schools is beyond me.
The articles never give direction on what we can do about it. If this is allowed to continue, the US will turn into Nazi Germany. We need to do something now. These kids will be the future leaders and voters of our country.
The best defense is a good offense. Demand to see the principal immediately. Don’t take no for an answer. Don’t be on the defensive, be out raged. It’s good for you. If need be mention litigation. Put them on notice. If possible form a group. And if necessary, go over their heads. And even if all else fails, you will know that you have made an effort to confront the evil. “The only thing necessary, for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing“. Attributed to Edmund Burke.
I'm reading this and wondering how these Jewish ladies can say without a hint of irony that their voice is being lost in the swell of whiteness while complaining about DEI now promoting antisemitism. "First they came for..." Come on. They've been anti white people and anti Asian people for a decade. Now that they're anti you, you're complaining? I'm on your side, but still now.
Exactly this. If Jews thought they could hide out as part of the “acceptable” crowd…they’re learning how wrong they were. It was apparent even in 2020 when anti-Jewish stuff was a part of the BLM marches and riots.
Thank you Francesca Block. The rot in K-12 has been going on some time and our communal organizations such as ADL and others have been asleep at the wheel. Our colleges & universities are now the “finishing” schools for these rascist, ahistorical teaching. The only option is universal school choice to help break the progressive indoctrination. A new Administration and BOE focused on this may assist but it will take a generation to course correct. And that’s if we’re lucky.
I can assure you, that Iran succeeds in building the bomb and using it, these same schools and teachers will be celebrating. It’s sick, sad and incredible that our Education system aids, abets and traffics in this antisemetic circus. Again, thanks for your reporting.
As I've noticed the rise of Christian nationalism in conservative an libertarian circles, I've wondered why Jews [I'm Jewish] aren't making more of an effort to find common ground with these people. Liberal Jews have been brainwashed along with these kids, that any sort of Christian or nationalist rhetoric is "far-right propaganda". Also, they hate to admit they're on the wrong team now. But it is only the Christian nationalist types who feel the same sense of urgency as the radical Muslims; only they are standing against the suicidal progressive march into chaos. When leftists try to blame the rise of antisemitism on Trump, they should try to picture which of our politicians are most likely to endorse the message, "Globalize the intifada". Spoiler alert: They're all on the blue team.
What's really behind this trend is old-fashioned Marxist class warfare, which many academics happen to be swayed by. It irks many professors and admin types to no end that they are not running society, with their superior knowledge and clever opinions. The destruction of a productive society is brought about by replacing a culture of ambition and aspiration with one of envy and resentment to anyone who is successful. Academics are often [but not always] willing participants in such ideology, as many despise the fact that they didn't naturally float to the top of the social heap by virtue signaling alone.
Good God! This is one of the scariest things I have read in years, & there's been a lot of bad stuff. How on earth did the people perpetrating this hateful stuff get into their positions and who is letting them get away with this? The sane majority must stand up against this stuff - racism & antisemitism is never, ever, ok and the thought that kids are being indoctrinated like this without anyone shutting it down is chilling. It does, however, explain the large, revolting protests that we have seen since October 7th. Thank you for shining a light on this. Never Again needs to mean something!
https://www.wweek.com/news/schools/2023/12/14/fresh-off-a-strike-portland-association-of-teachers-turns-its-attention-to-israel/
The communists of old advised their followers to win the minds of the children at the earliest age possible. This ensured their loyalty in adulthood. Have not the rich Arab oligarchies followed the advice of the communists?
If so, did the largesse faire of the last 20 years or more create the opportunity for Arab oligarchs to re-educate the children of America to their advantage? It seems so.
How do we change American education from servitude to foreign oligarchs to service to American traditions? How do we purge this from our society. If we do not I'm certain of end of land of the free and home of the brave.
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I should clarify, I meant to say in the educational systems of those places. Their citizens are usually at the mercy of an educational establishment that gets everything it wants.
Not surprised but anyone who has spent any time in any of these blue-leaning areas owes at least a bit of responsibility for creating this nonsensical environment. I used to live in a town near Westport and the prevailing mantra is always "Be Nice." You see enough "in this house we believe..." yard signs to last a lifetime. Meanwhile, guess who's laughing? The Chinese, who are busy equipping their kids in math and science while our own educators argue about the "racist content" in those subjects.
"One senior educator in the district, who is Jewish, told The Free Press she was “appalled” by the poster. “It’s clearly connected to the ethnic tropes of Jews having big noses. Quite frankly, it reminded me of Nazi comics. I had a visceral reaction to it. It was antisemitic.”"
For a person of Arab descent to post this raises the possibility that she was trying to educate students that people like her also have noses that don't that aren't the same shape as white noses, and that it doesn't matter matter. I don't see this as inherently anti-Semitic. These days, after generations of intermarriage, a great number of American Jews don't have "Jewish noses."
The other reports in this article are appalling and alarming. However, I would encourage Jewish readers to read up on the other sides arguments and historical accounts. No Jew is harmed by knowing in detail what the other side is thinking. The works of Rashid Khalidi, and the Israelis Ilan Pappé and Benny Morris, are important works.
What irks me is that college administrators university administrations decided that it was necessary to take a stand on the current conflict. It appears to me that that led to a whole lot of unneccessary grief. Campuses are for inquiry, but all verbal and physical harassment is off-limits, and offenders should be quickly and significantly sanctioned. The administration of Yale was very derelict in its handling of the harassment of the Professors Christakis in 2015.
Civic life is different after the invention of the cell phone. We must find ways to recapture a civil discourse
DEI is racism. Plessy vs Fergusen has nothing on these freaks. Break this thing in a million pieces. Point out the bigots for who they are, prejudicial hate filled people. These elitist racist freaks have wreaked havoc on society and need to be shunned by society.
Harvard thought this was a good idea- great hire with President Gay! Immigration policy is 'racist'. Mayor Adams in NYC seems to be seeing the light. Using race as means to manipulate people has royally backfired hurting all. He has hurt people of his city and the migrants under the 'anti-racist' banner. Suburban liberal moms hang your head in shame, you are now the proud parents of antisemites. Or maybe change and realize you made bad ideological choices that now have ugly consequences.
I feel sorry for American Jews. I think Jews who think anti-antisemitic ads, or whatever, are going to lessen antisemitism are kidding themselves. Right-wing antisemites will hate Jews to eternity the same way their ancestors hated them when they lynched and burned Leo Frank in Atlanta as if he were black, the same way they did when they marched through the UVA campus with a Nazi parade of torches and shouts of "Jews will not replace us." The same way they did when they invented the insane theory that the tiny Jewish minority is plotting to "replace" the 58% of other "whites" in our population. And left-wing antisemites, a much smaller group, just as the Ivies have many fewer students than state universities for the masses have, will forever see Israelis Jews as the colonial, apartheid "oppressors" of the Palestinians. Jewish attempts to change these mass American views will get nowhere, and will be further undermined by the daily scenes of Gazan fathers carrying the broken bodies of their kids from the ruins of Gazan buildings, taking them to hospitals to be operated on without anesthetics. For dessert, Zionist American Jews face a growing generation gap within both Jewish and Gentile America, in which younger Americans in both groups break with older ones because of radically different historical experiences, as well as the much higher level of assimilation into secular American culture by the Jewish young, especially at our best universities, which are unstoppably progressive and thus tilted against Bibi's Israel, and which are the places young Jews matriculate in disproportionate numbers. Jews obviously have gigantic financial power in America, but much less power to shape mass public opinion, right or left.
This problem in teaching goes beyond antisemitism and includes many other aspects of teaching. A big question to me is "How did these ingnorant and arrogant people become teachers (and administrators and principals and professors and trustees) with the mission to indoctrinate?" We have to answer that question and correct the problem at its source.
You may say I'm a dreamer,
But I'm not the only one.
I hope someday you'll join us,
And the world will live as one.
---Claudine Gay, President, Harvard University
Credit: The Babylon Bee
Frankly, I find articles like this so incredibly frightening. To read that the majority of our young people see Jews as oppressors and Israel as a colonizer is unfathomable. How can such things be permitted to be taught in our schools is beyond me.
The articles never give direction on what we can do about it. If this is allowed to continue, the US will turn into Nazi Germany. We need to do something now. These kids will be the future leaders and voters of our country.
What is the solution?
Ahimsa papa j
The best defense is a good offense. Demand to see the principal immediately. Don’t take no for an answer. Don’t be on the defensive, be out raged. It’s good for you. If need be mention litigation. Put them on notice. If possible form a group. And if necessary, go over their heads. And even if all else fails, you will know that you have made an effort to confront the evil. “The only thing necessary, for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing“. Attributed to Edmund Burke.
I'm reading this and wondering how these Jewish ladies can say without a hint of irony that their voice is being lost in the swell of whiteness while complaining about DEI now promoting antisemitism. "First they came for..." Come on. They've been anti white people and anti Asian people for a decade. Now that they're anti you, you're complaining? I'm on your side, but still now.
Exactly this. If Jews thought they could hide out as part of the “acceptable” crowd…they’re learning how wrong they were. It was apparent even in 2020 when anti-Jewish stuff was a part of the BLM marches and riots.