Fighting Antisemitism and Anti-Israel Bias in Education
CALIFORNIA
June 21, 2022
A group favoring what it calls Liberated Ethnic Studies is trying to re-introduce antisemitic and other controversial content by selling an ethnic studies curriculum “under the radar,” as they themselves put it.
June 14, 2022
Some assert the Jewish community should still pursue the religion-free, “neutral” public realm that Richard John Neuhaus described in his book, “The Naked Public Square.”
June 9, 2022
What do the “liberatory” ethnic studies curriculum infiltrated into Los Angeles County public schools and the 1619 Project have in common? The former is anti-Jewish and anti-American, the latter anti-American and anti-Jewish.
May 26, 2022
Those celebrations were premature. It appears now that the proponents of the earlier version, the folks peddling “liberated ethnic studies,” twisted the Governor’s words into a strategy for infiltrating the same anti-Jewish material into California’s public schools.
May 24, 2022
Similarly, our cover story this week by Lori Lowenthal Marcus, which digs deep into the California Ethnic Studies curriculum, is another case of fighting smart.
May 12, 2022
A group of Jewish public-school parents and teachers filed a federal lawsuit Thursday challenging the adoption of anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist curricular materials in Los Angeles public schools
May 9, 2022
Days after the Napa Valley school board approved a $38,000 contract with the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Coalition, the school district decided not to move forward with the arrangement.
May 6, 2022
The Napa Valley Unified School District, which oversees 27 schools attended by some 16,500 students, approved the $38,490 implementation contract with the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Coalition during its regular meeting on April 21.
April 12, 2022
An influential committee of University of California faculty that oversees academic admissions requirements is proposing that UC set criteria and content for high school ethnic studies courses similar to what the State Board of Education rejected two years ago as divisive.
March 29, 2022
A law mandating the course for all public high school students is based on two unreplicated studies that distort the data
March 29, 2022
The proposed new admissions requirement will require that each prospective UC student complete a high school ethnic studies course that will likely be in line with a model curriculum that is openly antisemitic.
March 29, 2022
Even more sobering than the board’s decision, however, was how that decision was justified by Castro Valley Assistant Superintendent Jason Reiman.
January 20, 2022
The agreement sets out a yearlong plan for teacher training and curriculum development from the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Coalition, an educational consulting outfit that the school board called “one of the most well reputed” providers of ethnic studies training and development in the country.
October 28, 2021
The San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) Board of Trustees passed a resolution on October 26 to include the teaching of antisemitism in the ethnic studies curriculum.
October 20, 2021
The most important existential threat to the Jewish community is neither Iran or intermarriage. Rather it is our increasing political and cultural isolation, and the resulting hostility that we face from both ends of the ideological spectrum.
October 13, 2021
I have praised and criticized Newsom, both in these pages and elsewhere. But he deserves credit for two actions that may provide a tremendous opportunity for California’s Jewish community and represent important steps forward for the relationships between ethnic, racial and religious communities.
October 10, 2021
After years of debate, including over material some deemed antisemitic, class to become mandatory for high school graduation; some Jewish groups laud the move, others still opposed
October 6, 2021
The LA Times Editorial Board believes AB 101 is flawed but can be rehabilitated. It cannot. Governor Newsom must veto this bill, for good.
August 16, 2021
The curriculum authors, who define Zionism as “a nationalist, colonial ideology,” claim that there is a “current apartheid in Israel” and that Israel’s “settler colonialism” has “pedagogical importance” and therefore must be included in California’s ethnic studies curriculum.
July 13, 2021
Malveaux’s anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist views are not unique—in fact, they are shared by many others in the discipline of Ethnic Studies, including at her own institution.
June 28, 2021
For those of us who have watched the ongoing ethnic studies debate in California education circles rage over the last several years, the news that Cal State LA’s new College of Ethnic Studies has named a longtime ally and supporter of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan as the school’s first dean seemed like a cruel joke.
June 25, 2021
Jewish groups expressed concern over Malveaux being named as the dean of Cal State LA’s College of Ethnic Studies.
May 14, 2021
As a former head of a private elementary school in Virginia, I had been invited to sit on a public school district textbook adoption committee. The task was to review textbooks from publishers that would be used in various core curricula and make recommendations.
April 13, 2021
Let us unite once again around the danger posed by the appalling first draft and the bad-faith actors who are still promoting it.
March 22, 2021
It took four years of negotiations, dozens of rewrites, more than 100,000 formal public comments and countless slights, slurs, micro-aggressions and cross-cultural insults.
March 18, 2021
According to Gabe Stutman, editor of the Jewish News of Northern California, the final draft “includes two lessons on Jewish Americans and part of the [International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance] definition of antisemitism (not the Israel part).”
March 17, 2021
Ethnic studies is an academic field that grew out of the Third World Liberation Front (TWLF), a student movement formed at San Francisco State University (SFSU) in 1968.
March 8, 2021
Yesterday, the End Jew Hatred (EJH) Movement, a grassroots civil rights movement fighting Jew-hatred, held at a protest at the Federal Building in Los Angeles, where I was honored to be one of the speakers. The reason for the EJH protest?
March 8, 2021
The “Teach Love Not Hate” protest, which was sponsored by End Jew Hatred, Yad Yamin, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and The Lawfare Project, among others, took place in front of the West Los Angeles Federal Building on Wilshire Boulevard.
February 5, 2021
The statement, which was spearheaded by the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles, said that recent articles in Jewish publications about the ESMC “have often misrepresented and misinformed on many of the details of the issue, its progression and the ongoing advocacy work that all our institutions are doing.”
February 3, 2021
A significant faction in this particular academic field institutionally promotes anti-Zionism and discriminatory boycotts against Israel.
January 29, 2021
Thirty-five academics sent a letter to the California State Board of Education and State Superintendent Tony Thurmond on January 21 questioning the alleged benefits of the proposed Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC).
January 27, 2021
“[I] f I were a Jewish child in a school using this curriculum,” reads a public comment from a clinical psychologist at UCLA about the California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC), “would I feel called out, that I deserve to be shamed and isolated and that any bias, prejudice or hatred directed against me or my ethnic group would be deserved and justified?”
September 25, 2020
As the public comment period on California’s revised draft of an Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) draws to a close, Jewish organizations are mobilizing to address what they perceive as the draft’s failings.
