NEA Teachers Celebrate Motion to Drop ADL; Israel Lobby Fumes

The purpose of this move by NEA teachers is to keep the ADL away from public education, to keep students and teachers safe from harassment, and prevent the chilling effect which lobbying groups like the ADL work to engender. I hope the NEA president does the right thing and respects the delegates' consensus.

NEA Teachers Celebrate Motion to Drop ADL; Israel Lobby Fumes

With the ADL appealing to the NEA’s nine-member executive committee to reconsider the motion, union President Becky Pringle walks a tightrope as the committee studies whether to say yay or nay to the majority of delegates rejecting the ADL.

The unit introduces a pro-Israel vocabulary framework—delegitimization, demonization, and double-standards–a 3D test to evaluate whether an incident is antisemitic. Under this rubric, the campus slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” is noted 600 times in the ADL’s 2024 audit of antisemitic incidents, according to the magazine Jewish Currents, which conducted a “line by line” examination of the audit. Even the ADL admits that 58% of the incidents cited in its 2024 audit were related to criticism of Israel.

Still, teachers and students who access ADL curriculum—No Place for Hate, Echoes and Reflections, A World of Difference—are encouraged, through links back to the ADL website, to complete a complaint form accusing others of involvement in what the ADL defines as antisemitic incidents.

Submitted July 16, 2025 at 08:42AM by lewkiamurfarther https://ift.tt/tf9rZnx