A Jewish authorized advocacy group is urging the Trump administration to launch a sweeping investigation and to halt federal funding to Ok-12 colleges which might be utilizing DEI — variety, fairness and inclusion packages — to advertise antisemitism.
The Brandeis Heart for Human Rights Below Regulation despatched a bombshell 15-page letter to US Schooling Secretary Linda McMahon citing proof of Jews being labeled as “inherently racist [and] oppressive” and claiming that Jewish college students are being discriminated towards to realize DEI for different minority teams.
The group mentioned DEI packages fomenting Jew hatred each violate the 1964 civil rights regulation and President Trump’s Jan. 20 govt order to ban such initiatives, which the commander in chief himself described as “unlawful and immoral.”
“If President Trump is severe about ending radical indoctrination in Ok-12 education, he ought to begin with a few of the antisemitic educators whom we have now discovered,” mentioned Kenneth Marcus, chairman & CEO of the Brandeis Heart and former US assistant secretary of schooling.
“Paradoxically, a few of the worst antisemitism is coming from ‘progressive educators’ who purveying anti-Jewish hatred within the title of ‘liberated ethnic research’ and social justice schooling,” Marcus informed The Publish.
The April 28 letter to McMahon cites blatant examples of faculty officers and academics bashing Israel and Jews, notably in California, together with:
- A California district Workplace of Fairness circulated a message to academics and workers stating, “Fingers off Sacred Land from Shellmo[u]nd to Jerusalem” and “Zionism is Racism.”
- A Berkeley second-grade trainer informed her 7-year-old college students to write down messages on sticky notes condemning US help for Israel, stating, “Cease bombing infants.” The notes have been then posted exterior the classroom of the one Jewish trainer within the college, the grievance mentioned.
- The Los Angeles Unified Faculty District authorized supplies for a “Free Palestine” occasion and the trainer accountable for the occasion supplied materials to college students that referred to Israel as “Occupied Palestine” and used antisemitic tropes to demonize Israelis and Jews.
The civil rights group additionally mentioned academics’ unions in California and Massachusetts promote DEI-
primarily based, antisemitic teachings.
And an unapproved course of examine referred to as “Educate Palestine” is spreading throughout the US “due to the academics’ union,” the Brandeis Heart attorneys mentioned.
The grievance claimed college districts are contracting with exterior teams just like the Arab Useful resource and Organizing Heart (AROC) and permitting them to “indoctrinate” college students with their very own DEI-based, antisemitic agendas.
“We’ve proof that California college districts in San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley have allowed AROC to come back onto college grounds and achieve entry to schoolchildren, whom they have interaction exterior of sophistication, and ply with propaganda and hateful messages about Jews and Israel,” the letter mentioned.
Brandeis Heart attorneys informed McMahon, “Anti-Semitic indoctrination is an more and more pervasive and harmful a part of DEI programming that’s being taught in Ok-12 colleges throughout America. The anti-Semitic propaganda introduced into colleges by academics, unions, and third-party contractors …. indoctrinate college students with messages of anti-Jewish and anti-American hate and fosters a hostile surroundings for Jewish college students in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
“Any plan for eliminating federal funding pursuant below Trump’s govt order ought to embrace provisions goal educators who condone or allow anti-Semitic curricula, instruction, packages, or actions disguised as “DEI,” the group mentioned.
The group requested McMahon to:
- Examine and when substantiated, halt federal funding for varsity districts that refuse to deal with or “deliberately perpetrate” acts which might be “harming Jewish and different kids of their care.”
- Overview anti-Semitic DEI supplies promoted by academics and their unions, third celebration contractors and so-called “liberated” ethnic research curricula which might be being put in in excessive colleges.
“We on the Brandeis Heart have seen DEI used as a device by academics, academics’ unions, and third-party contractors to foment Jew-hatred in Ok-12 colleges,” Rachel Lerman and Denise Katz-Prober of the Brandeis Heart mentioned within the letter.
“Jewish mother and father and youngsters have suffered—and are struggling—instantly from DEI-based classes that train college students, inter alia, to treat Jews as evil `oppressors’ who must be marginalized, outcast, and justifiably topic to discrimination, harassment or worse.”
The DEI narrative categorizes Jews and Jewish kids as “oppressors” who’re “white” and “privileged” — no matter pores and skin colour or household historical past, the middle mentioned.
Many DEI-proponents additionally reward and justify the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist assaults towards Israel as respectable “resistance” and “falsely educating kids that the State of Israel is a “settler colonial” and “apartheid’” regime that has no proper to exist.
The US Schooling Division had no instant remark.
McMahon’s company didn’t open a civil rights probe into the Chicago Public Faculty System for launching a remedial program that solely aided black college students and never different college students who’re struggling academically.
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