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The largest teachers union in the country, the National Education Association, is calling for a boycott of ADL and our decades of education materials and data. This biased and one-sided resolution would keep our vital lessons about antisemitism, about the Holocaust, and about hate, bigotry and bias out of K-12 classrooms.
You might wonder what possible rationale there is for this latest example of open hostility toward Jewish educators, students and families, which comes on the heels of reports by Jewish K-12 teachers regarding other antisemitic activity happening within their unions.
Why is the NEA excluding ADL’s voice from educational spaces at a time of skyrocketing antisemitism?
The answer is clear: for a group of pro-Hamas activists inside NEA, their problem with ADL is our belief in the right of Israel to exist. Nothing less, nothing more.
Click here to tell the NEA Executive Committee members that it is unacceptable to fail the students they are supposed to serve by depriving them of resources that can help them fight antisemitism, hate and discrimination. Don’t let the radical anti-Israel advocates within the NEA marginalize Jewish voices.
We want to share this video clip to give you more information about the dangers of NEA’s action. In it, ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt explains how anti-Israel activists in the NEA are trying to deprive students of our anti-hate content, including Holocaust education materials that are the gold standard in their field.
Please watch this short segment, then take a moment to make your voice heard. Call on the NEA to reverse course and to do the right thing for the students and teachers they are supposed to represent.
Thank you for joining us in taking this action. We need your help, and so do Jewish students and educators across the country.
Sincerely,
Shira Goodman
VP, Advocacy
ADL
