Impact Report 2024 – June 2025
ARIZONA
The Influential Organization Training our School Districts and Teachers on Land Back Activism, Decolonialism and How to turn Students into Activists
CALIFORNIA
“Genderbread person” and activism: The Ethnic Studies class San Francisco USD students have been required to take
Gabriel Medina, Pajaro Valley School Board Trustee, uses his official account to again spread antisemitic conspiracy theories
Trustee Gabriel Medina of Pajaro Valley USD is at it again – posting antisemitic dog whistles on his official Instagram account
Tara Marino, school board trustee in Grass Valley School District, CA, part of extremist anti-Israel activist network; solicits donations for Hamas-affiliated charity.
A California school district has a budget deficit of almost $95 million. It just spent $28 000 on professional development trainings run by an October 7th apologist
Pajaro Valley USD activists claim that they’ve reviewed the Ethnic Studies curriculum used in PVUSD and it’s”anti-capitalist” – while denying to Jews in the community that the curriculum exists
Gabriel Medina, board member for Pajaro Valley USD, uses official social media account to attack ADL/defend Hasan Piker’s comments on the murderer of the Israeli embassy workers
Dublin Unified School District debates making Ethnic Studies mandatory – teachers push for it, parents reject
How the Pajaro Valley USD School Board was captured by the “progressive” left – what to watch for in your own districts
More antisemitic conspiracy at PVUSD: Medina accuses State Superintendent Tony Thurmond of being influenced by “certain groups” , Jewish American History Month used to attack Zionism and Israel
WHEREAS, on April 23, 2025, in closed session, Trustee Medina repeatedly addressed a female fellow Board member as “Barbie,” and shouted several times, “Come at me, Barbie!”
The latest from Pajaro Valley: A motion to censure Trustee Medina met with backlash from…Trustee Medina
PVUSD Trustee Gabriel Medina spends Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) going after one particular group of people
Pajaro Valley USD Trustee Gabriel Medina uses his personal social media to attack fellow Board Members
Follow Up: Gabriel Medina of Pajaro Valley Unified School District celebrates his bullying of the Jewish community and uses his PVUSD Instagram account for Holocaust Inversion
Liberty Union High School District presenting “Voices” Ethnic Studies textbook for 30 day public review
Shocking antisemitism from members of the school board, teachers union and public at Pajaro Valley USD meeting on Ethnic Studies
Regardless of budget cuts, Pajaro Valley Unified School District Fighting to Implement Radical Ethnic Studies and incorporate Ethnic Studies into English, History and Art classes
The California Council for the Social Studies should consider a name change…The California Council for Ethnic Studies and Activism perhaps?
Oakland Educators and Democratic Socialists of America Endorse Anti-Zionist Film Fest
San Diego Unified Loses Grant Money Due to DEI
UTLA Endorses “Antisemitism Training” by Antisemitic Organization
Hayward Unified School District is a slow learner – after hiring Woke Kindergarten to disastrous results, now HUSD is spending money on Liberated Ethnic Studies training
Anti-Palestinian Racism training is already in our schools: Balboa High School, in SFUSD, had teachers attend a mandatory professional development session on Anti-Palestinian Racism.
“EducatenotIndoctrinate”, a group of K-12 teachers, rails against Liberalism, “western nonsense” and “white leftism”
Lawfare to get “Anti-Palestinian Racism” recognized in California Schools
West Contra Costa Unified School District Educators for Palestine Promote Violence and a troubling curriculum training for teachers who want to bring Palestine into the classroom
Palestine Math Classes and Pro-Hamas Webinars: Welcome to the Oakland Education Association Palestine Caucus
Educate Not Indoctrinate – the so-called “educators defense network” for public school teachers posts terrorism apologia on October 7th.
“Educate Not Indoctrinate” Instagram page is a master class in Orwellian “Doublespeak”
ILLINOIS
Jenine Wehbeh, national coordinator for Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies, holding “teach-in” with Bill Ayers, founder of extreme militant group Weather Underground
Chicago-based foundation gives over $500,000 for research carried out, through Montclair State University, by extreme “Teaching While Muslim” organization
US Dept of Ed Office for Civil Rights Relaunches Title VI Investigation into Evanston-Skokie School District 65 – the details are horrific. So why did the Biden administration halt the investigation?
Activist involved in developing Social Studies Standards for Illinois makes clear the role of ethnic studies is to create student activists – ” the goal of Ethnic Studies: We teach to liberate.”
Antisemitism Runs Rampant at Elite Chicago Private School
Sawsan Jaber, Dept Chair of English at Maine West, to speak at Extremist Conference organized by groups with ties to Islamist orgs Muslim Brotherhood and Jamaat e Islami- the MAS-ICNA Conference
Chair of English Dept. at Maine West High School, Parkridge Illinois, praises Hamas – to speak at American Muslims for Palestine event
MARYLAND
Atholton High School in Maryland plays host to “Unlearn University” – where educators, activists and students “unlearn” what that they’ve been taught at school
Impact Hub Baltimore hosting extreme anti-Israel activist who will give workshops for educators and activists to bring Gaza into the classroom
Montgomery County Public School District is under federal investigation for Title VI violations regarding antisemitism. It may want to look into some of its teachers…
MASSACHUSETTS
Massachusetts Teachers Association Summer Conference features a keynote speaker who justifies October 7th, a workshop on “Considering Marxism” and Cornel West.
Massachusetts Teachers Association approves “training” for its members on the “dangerous redefinition of antisemitism” used to “suppress teaching” about “Palestine”
Massachusetts Teachers Fight Antisemitism in Their Union
Massachusetts Department of Education “Genocide Education” Resources link to Qatari-linked “Choices Program” and other problematic resources
MTA’s Rank & File for Palestine Continues Antisemitic Tirades
Massachusetts Teachers Association Fails to Follow Through on Promise to Remove Anti-Semitic Materials from Website
MTA Rank and File for Palestine defend disastrous hearing before MA Special Commission on Combatting Antisemitism and share post about liberating Palestine “by any means necessary”
Max Page and Merrie Najimy address, or rather don’t address, the MTA’s antisemitic and anti-Zionist resources to the Massachusetts Special Special Commission on Antisemitism.
Massachusetts Teachers Association Allows MTA Rank and File for Palestine Booth at a Union Skills Conference
MTA Rank and File for Palestine and NYC Educators for Palestine Share “Palestine” Curriculum materials from group which rejects the West, calls US Fascist
MTA Rank and File for Palestine advertise events with organizations tied to terrorism
Extreme group Massachusetts Education Justice Alliance and its ties to the Massachusetts Teachers Association
Tomorrow, Dec 14th, Massachusetts Teachers Association Board of Directors to vote on Pro-BDS Policy Changes
Institute for the Understanding of Anti-Palestinian Racism and Massachusetts Peace Action: the Special Commission on Anti-Semitism is about “codifying Zionism” and protecting Israel – not antisemitism
Institutionalizing Anti-Palestinian Racism in Massachusetts: An Upcoming Webinar on Why State Efforts to Combat Antisemitism are in fact Anti-Palestinian Racism
Massachusetts Teachers Association Rank and File For Palestine Continues Campaign Against CAMERA
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson keynote speaker at National Council of Teachers of English Convention – Featuring Speakers Who Defend Hamas and Mourn Sinwar
Mass. State Rep, President of Mass Teachers Association, President of American Federation of Teachers-Mass. and Representative from National Education Association to speak at Mass Peace Action Event
MINNESOTA
Minneapolis Federation of Teachers Vote for Arms Embargo against Israel. Meet the teachers behind it who also support groups accused of terror-financing.
St.Paul Federation of Educators Progressive Caucus calls Hamas a “resistance group”, puts forward resolution for SPFE to sign arms embargo letter
Friday Night, Nov 22nd – Minnesota Educators for Palestine playing host to group under investigation for terrorism ties – American Muslims for Palestine.
NATIONAL
We read Rethinking School’s “Teaching Palestine” book so you don’t have to
“…share resources with teachers that allow us to do the work that would normally be labeled DEI, in a way that is maybe more subversive or that… wouldn’t set off any alarm bells.”
Rethinking School’s “Teaching Palestine” Book Launch features Macklemore who was “awakened” by October 7th to “support Palestine” and Jesse Hagopian claims Israel is worse than Jim Crow South
Qatar Promoted Lesson on “Terrorism” being taught in our K-12 Schools
Activist elementary school teachers run “Rainbow Clubs” to teach very young children about gender ideology
National Education Association – Educators for Palestine hold “teach-in” for K-12 educators on activism to “liberate Palestine” and defeat the “Zionists”
Rethinking Schools which provides lesson plans to teachers in K-12 across the country outlines new anti-Israel classroom material being taught now in K-12
Teachers Associations Ramp Up Anti-Israel Activism in 2025 – Example: Oregon Educators for Palestine bully the Portland Public School Board to recognize Anti-Palestinian Racism
NEA invites anti-Zionist Jesse Hagopian of Rethinking Schools to keynote event at Minority / Women’s Leadership Training (WLT) Seminar to Advance Racial & Social Justice
The Institute for the Understanding of Anti-Palestinian Racism wants schools to recognize Israel as a settler-colonial state and adopt APR definition
Hot off the Presses: Video- Zinn Education Project presents “Teaching Truths: Educators Speak on Justice & Liberation in the Classroom” K-12 teachers discuss how they bring “truth” to the classroom
The Anti-Israel Extremist at the Helm of Two Influential Education Organizations
Activist Teachers go on the record: How I teach Palestine in the classroom
Teachers Unions and Associations Are All Out For Palestine and against the “Zionist Entity” – From Amarillo to Oakland, Activists are reshaping Teachers Unions and the Classroom
CAIR, Jewish Voice for Peace, and Arab Resource and Organizing Center want the American Jewish Committee out of schools
Hot off the Presses: Full Webinar Recording of “Drop the ADL from Schools Campaign”
How children’s books are used to spread anti-Israel and illiberal ideology and turn your kids into activists: Ida in the Middle – be aware of the content if this is in your child’s school
NEW JERSEY
Upcoming Teach-Ins on “policing and Palestine” and “copaganda” hosted by Liberated Ethnic Studies, LA Educators for Justice in Palestine, TeachingWhileMuslim and MAPSO Freedom School
Inside the New Jersey “Centering Palestine” Teach-In Rejecting “normalization” with “Zionists” with special guest Nerdeen Kiswani of extremist org WithinOurLifetime
Teaching While Muslim and the Palestinian American Community Center Laud Lessons Learnt from 1st Intifada
New term just dropped – “post-Zionist” Jews. Spoiler alert: They’re still not good enough. And armed resistance must be normalized.
UPDATE: Extremist New Jersey based “Educators for Palestinian Liberation” , “Teaching While Muslim” and “Decolonize the Classroom” holding joint Teach-In in Clifton, NJ
Follow-up: TeachingWhileMuslim, Rutgers for Palestine and Newark Solidarity “Teach-in” bringing Palestine into Labor Organizing
K-12 Extremism regulars Thuraya Zeidan, Abeer Ramadan-Shinnawi and TeachingWhileMuslim mourn Yahya Sinwar
What’s in the water in New Jersey? Layla Graham,Montessori Teacher, wants to “decolonize” the curriculum and bring Islam into children’s education / TeachingWhileMuslim pushes anti-Palestinian Racism
Thuraya Zeidan, Passaic High School Teacher, posts extremist cleric – if we had more arms, we could liberate Palestine
Update: Thuraya Zeidan, ie Decolonizetheclassroom, NJ High School Teacher – Celebrates Iran’s attack on Israeli civilians.
New Jersey teachers, “Educators for Palestinian Liberation”, are advocates for terror and sad Nasrallah is dead
Who is teaching your kids in New Jersey? Answer: @Decolonize_the_classroom
NEW YORK
Democratic Socialists of America backed candidates in the running for United Federation of Teachers leadership – largest local teachers union in country
It’s “Teach Palestine” week! Are these extreme materials from Teaching While Muslim and NY Educators for Palestine turning up in your kid’s school?
NYC taxpayers funding “Woke Kindergarten’s” seminar at the Brooklyn Public Library on “Kids as Comrades:Wondering Towards a Just Climate Future”
NYC Educators for Palestine and TWM: Turning Iftar Sour
NYC Educators for Palestine promotes fundraiser for charity with alleged ties to known terrorist organization, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Woke Kindergarten develops resources on “ceasefire” which uses quotation marks around Israel, calls Zionists “settlers who are harming and killing the Palestinians”
ONTARIO
OREGAN
The National Education Association’s conference on Racial and Social Justice includes extremist speakers and a session on “what antisemitism is and is not”
Calls for “Intifada”, protestor claims”I am Hamas, we’re all Hamas” outside Beaverton School Board Meeting
Oregon Educators for Palestine and Rethinking Schools are teaming up to host an ‘all-ages’ “Teaching Palestine” ‘community teach-in’
Beaverton Education Association holding “Teach Palestine” Workshop for its members
National Education Association – Educators for Palestine are holding a virtual “teach-in”: Gaza – the A to Z of Educator Activism
PENNSYLVANIA
Inside the Pennsylvania Educator Diversity Consortium: district administrators talk about continuing the “work” of DEI despite changed state guidelines and federal crackdowns
Racial Justice Organizing Committee partners with Resource Generation, a charity dedicated to land, wealth and power redistribution, to fundraise for new Philly “Freedom School”
Sharif El-Mekki, whose Center for Black Educator Development has received hundreds of thousands of dollars from School District of Philadelphia, seems to defend Iran and call America “totalitarian”
Major Educational Conferences Platform Speaker who has defended Hamas, mourned Yahya Sinwar
Pennsylvania Educator Diversity Consortium holding summit including sessions on teaching students about microaggressions. Abeer Ramadan Shinnawi, mourner of Yahya Sinwar, also presenting.
The theatre of Keziah Ridgeway, the Racial Justice Organizing Committee, and the Philly Educators for Palestine – where students are used as props for their pet causes
Activist infiltration in schools: The History of the Caucus of Working Educators, the Racial Justice Organizing Committee, and the Administration of the School District of Philadelphia
School District of Philadelphia Director of Social Studies Curriculum is on board of group calling for education as a tool of revolution and to bring outside activism into K-12 schools.
The Origins of the Racial Justice Organizing Committee operating in the School District of Philadelphia: its ties to Tides Foundation and more
School District of Philadelphia files a motion to dismiss Jewish teacher’s suit against the district
Full CAIR-Philly Press Conference: Keziah Ridgeway Sues the School District of Philadelphia
Unbelievable: CAIR-Philly sues School District of Philadelphia on behalf of Keziah Ridgeway, citing “discrimination”
School District of Philadelphia official Continues to make light of teacher complaints over antisemitism in the district
Organization with deep ties to School District of Philly personnel runs “revolutionary education” workshop at Swarthmore “pro-Palestine” encampment
“White tears”: Ismael Jimenez, Director of Social Studies Curriculum for the School District of Philadelphia, responds to Jewish teacher’s complaints over antisemitism
Philly teacher Keziah Ridgeway and her group Racial Justice follow and are followed by “Zionists out of Philly” an instagram page dedicated to hounding Jewish businesses “out of Philly”
Philly teachers rail against the “Zionist entity” and how ((Zionists)) think Black Americans “owe them something”. These are the great minds teaching your children…
Why is the Director of Social Studies Curriculum at the School District of Philadelphia on the Board of an organization which partnered with Samidoun, a designated terror entity?
“Perfect for Black History Month”: A new lesson plan which brings Palestine into the American Civil Rights Movement
Sharif El-Mekki’s Annual Black Male Educators Conference Features Extremists and Anti-Israel Hate
Hot off the Presses: Full Video Penn Faculty for Justice in Palestine Webinar discussing anti-Palestinian Racism and K-12 education
Penn Faculty for Justice in Palestine and the Abolitionist Movement in Schools get together to talk Anti-Palestinian Racism – Buckle up this is a long one…
Follow up: Sinwar Mourners Sawsan Jaber and Abeer Ramadan-Shinnawi at the Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts Conference
The Pennsylvania Council of Teachers of English and Language Arts have some interesting speakers at their annual conference
Antisemitism in Philadelphia Schools? – Apparently A-OK with some state representatives in Philadelphia
WASHINGTON
Shoreline School District Reinforces its DEI Commitments
Washington State Human Rights Commissioner and Northshore School Board Director, Han Tran, Mourns Yahya Sinwar.
Washington Education Association, Seattle Education Association,Portland Association of Teachers sponsor event with seminars – “Teach Palestine” and “Preparing for False Accusations of Antisemitism”
