The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universities, often over the objections of students, parents, and educators. Now, the three million-member National Education Association has finally said no. In July 6 vote, the NEA’s 7,000-member Representative Assembly cut all ties with the ADL.
  • nkat2112@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    21 hours ago

    The body approved a measure that the NEA “will not use, endorse, or publicize materials from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), such as its curricular materials or statistics.” The reasoning: “Despite its reputation as a civil rights organization, the ADL is not the social justice educational partner it claims to be.”

    Union members speaking on the floor rejected the ADL’s abuse of the term “antisemitism” to punish critics of Israel, its use of hyperinflated statistics on hate crimes to gin up fears about Jewish safety, and its characterization of calls for Palestinian rights as “hate speech.”

    “Allowing the ADL to determine what constitutes antisemitism would be like allowing the fossil fuel industry to determine what constitutes climate change,” said NEA delegate Stephen Siegel from the assembly floor.

    NEA members also cited the ADL’s history of discouraging anti-racist organizing, including attacking the anti-Apartheid and Black Lives Matter movements.

    I’m glad the educators have dumped this genocide-enabling organization.

    • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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      18 hours ago

      its use of hyperinflated statistics on hate crimes to gin up fears about Jewish safety

      Half of us fake news about antisemitism can be linked back to some trash posted by this Zionist shill op.

      Good to see certain institutions finally calling them what they are.

      Too bad it took a genocide to expose the infestation of Zionist vermin within western institutions

      It will take a generation at least to cleanse but the reputational damage has been done. All of that soft power is now gone.

      • limer@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        18 hours ago

        It will take a generation at least to cleanse but the reputational damage has been done.

        Several generations, probably, hundreds of years, at least. A minority of Jews tore up something that cannot be regenerated easily, while true antisemitism lives on for as long as Christianity exists.