Israel-Bashing on the Agenda for National Teachers Union
American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten speaks during the Get Out the Vote Rally in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Dominick Sokotoff via Getty Images)
Members fear a resolution vote next week could encourage teachers to portray Israel as “a colonizing country committing genocide.”
A series of anti-Israel resolutions proposed by members of the second biggest teachers union in America has other members in revolt, saying they target Jews and “libel the Jewish state.”
The resolutions before the American Federation of Teachers include calls to “halt U.S. military aid to Israel” and to “stop enabling genocide,” and include praise of pro…
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