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US public schools allegedly teach antisemitism
2023-12-21 (237)
Free Press investigation reveals troubling antisemitic teachings in U.S. public schools, including the "Brown University Choices Program," which allegedly indoctrinates one million secondary school students across all 50 states.
The report exposes a curriculum portraying Israel as a "Zionist enterprise in Palestine," an "apartheid state," a "settler colony," and a military occupier. A journalist at the Free Press, Francesca Block, joins “On Balance” to share her reporting.
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half of Young Americans half of Young
Americans support Hamas in the war
against Israel that brought chance like
this to high schools around America
from the river to the sea Palestine will be free
from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean
Sea that eliminates Israel where would
kids learn that? well, the Free Press
found some answers about where they're
Lear it how us Public Schools teach
anti-Semitism from prek lessons on
ethnic noses to lectures on Israel as an
apartheid state students are learning
that Jews are the enemy the article is
written by Franchesca block it exposes
Brown University's choices program
educates students on how Israel is a
Zionist Enterprise in Palestine an
apartheid state a settler Colony a
military occupier this is being taught
in all 50 states to a million Secondary
School students so now the chance makes
sense images out of California on your left
Gaza on your right, while American
students aren't being taught Guerilla
Warfare to kill Israelis while they're
still in kindergarten that happens in
Gaza both sets of children are learning
to hate Jews. this is an interview we had
last week with a father from Connecticut
whose son had to switch schools because
he was being bullied for being Jewish
we got uh uh mean text messages
that were very unfriendly that accused
us of causing the problem as if it was
our fault that someone had said to my
son you should go to Camp Auschwitz
exterminate all of the Jews, the school
administration not only tried to buy our
silence they tried to buy my son's silence
Franchesca block reporter at the
Free Press joins us now Franchesca
congrats on the Great Piece we
appreciate it they can find it uh on my
Twitter account and I know uh on the
freepress.com uh as well question to you
what happened to teaching kids 2 plus 2
equals 4 in kindergarten
thanks so much for having
me on and that is a great question
question um what I can tell you is that
right now what we're seeing in public
schools in America is new curriculum
which encourages students to divide the
world in a simplistic binary, to divide
the world between the oppressor and the
oppressed and this is having profound
consequences for Jews for Jewish
students a recent poll just came out
that said
67% of young people aged 18 to 24 now
view Jews as oppressors as the oppressor
class and believe they should be treated
as such and that's not too far away from
many of the anti-semitic tropes that
have plagued Jews for hundreds of years
H uh this is uh from California 10th
grade history course approved by the
Santa Ana Unified School District from
your reporting includes readings that
call Israel an extremist illegal Jewish
set settler population and accuse the
country of ethnic cleansing uh the
Unified School District our goal is to
ensure that our curriculum offers
balanced and multiple perspectives from
all groups involved in the Israel
Palestinian conflict we aim to achieve
this through an ongoing dialogue with
community members by utilizing
historical and academic content that
aderes to All State Department of
Education guidelines um that seems to
say something just not answering the
actual question did you find balance in
this I I can't try to figure out what
the balance to Israel is a you know
apartheid state that engages in ethnic
cleansing and an illegal Jewish settler
population that that's exactly right
many Jewish
parents families organizations that were
involved in opposing this curriculum
brought out that exact point that it
doesn't come across as balanced and that
it does paint this one-sided perspective
that is again leading to these ideas that
real quick forgive me forgive me
for interrupting you um but I I want to
be fair about this this isn't just rogue teachers, right?
in some cases it is in Oakland for
example teachers they organized a
teaching in their schools that was not
approved by the district in which they
gave lessons about the Israeli
Palestinian conflict that were not
approved um but in Santa Ana for example
this is actually a course that was
approved by the school board and there's
actually now a pending lawsuit against
the school board for um approving this
curriculum parents and the ADL actually
are involved as well as the brandise
center in saying that they didn't go
through the correct processes to get
this curriculum approved
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