Largest Teachers' Union in United States Erases Jews From the Holocaust

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Largest Teachers' Union in United States Erases Jews From the Holocaust
The NEA described the Holocaust as having '12 million victims' from 'different faiths' without mentioning the attempted extermination of the Jewish people

 
Alana Goodman
July 23, 2025

The nation's largest teachers' union plans to promote a version of Holocaust remembrance that does not mention Jews, according to its 2025 handbook, which references "victims of the Holocaust from different faiths" and teaches that Israel was founded through "forced, violent displacement and dispossession," its most recent guide for members shows.

The National Education Association, which represents nearly three million public school teachers and education workers, outlined the priorities in its 2025 handbook. The NEA publishes the document each year as a guide on the group's priorities and strategic goals for the association's national and state leaders, staff, and members. It includes the NEA's bylaws and is updated with any new resolutions and policy positions the union has endorsed.


The news comes amid a surge in both anti-Semitism and anti-Israel extremism at public schools and within teachers' unions themselves. The NEA Representative Assembly—the union's parliamentary body—passed a resolution to boycott the Anti-Defamation League's Holocaust education materials earlier this month, a vote the union's leadership rejected.

The NEA handbook, though, indicates that union leadership does back the extremist anti-Israel and anti-Jewish positions of many of its members.

https://freebeacon.com/america/largest-teachers-union-in-united-states-erases-jews-from-the-holocaust/

[Smokin Joe]

While the holocaust included a wide array of people, the focus on those considered untermenschen, was first and  foremost on Jews.
The Roma, Slavs, homosexuals, the mentally challenged, and a host of other "useless eaters" were fair game, too, but the emphasis had been on eliminating the Jewish people from Europe and the world (which, of course, the Nazis were going to conquer).

Jews got similar treatment under Stalin in the USSR, perhaps part of why Hitler and Stalin got on so well until they didn't.
To not mention the Jewish persecution under the Nazis is tantamount to saying "some people did nasty things to other people" and a serious undermining of the lessons the history of the Holocaust can provide.