Nation’s Largest Teachers’ Union Will Debate Resolution Accusing Israel of ‘Ethnic Cleansing’https://freebeacon.com/campus/nations-largest-teachers-union-will-debate-resolution-accusing-israel-of-ethnic-cleansing/The nation's largest teachers' union will debate two resolutions aimed at boycotting Israel and recognizing a Palestinian state at a conference this week.
The National Education Association will take up the proposals at their multi-day annual meeting, which is set to begin Wednesday. One measure calls on the United States to cut material support and funding to Israel. Another would have the union promote Palestinian causes through a variety of programs at an estimated cost of $71,500.
Teachers' unions across the country have come out against Israel and Jews in recent months. Three local unions affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers, the country's second-largest teachers' union, passed statements in June condemning Israel as an apartheid state. Federation president Randi Weingarten criticized Jews as being "part of the ownership class" dedicated to denying opportunities to others in an interview earlier this year.
1. How this is even slightly tangentially related to education and schools eludes me.
2. I hope teachers who are Jewish - religious or just ethnically - come to realize that underneath this internationalist rhetoric, the union is putting targets on their backs.
