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
Teachers Associations across the country are bringing Palestine into the classroom and protesting against the "Zionist state" outside of it.
The National Education Association is the largest teachers’ union in the country. Within the NEA is a cadre of activists, Educators for Palestine - NEA, pushing for the NEA to increase its activism when it comes to Palestine.
They had an unsuccessful attempt at passing resolutions at the most recent NEA representative assembly. Unsuccessful because the assembly was paused by strike action.
In the below image, the Educators for Palestine - NEA like a sign referring to “Israel” and US-Zionist terror…
The Educators for Palestine - NEA branch is also partnering with the Labor for Palestine movement to strike on October 7th. Very appropriate.
The Educators for Palestine-NEA Linktree page encourages NEA members to divest from the NEA PAC and instead donate to UNWRA or the Palestinian Childrens Relief Fund - both organizations with ties to Hamas.
NYC Educators for Palestine
Like the NEA activists, this group also endorses the strike on October 7th.
Like the NEA, the NYC Educators for Palestine activists call for organization and pushing the national teachers unions to take up Palestine as an issue. The NYC Educators for Palestine boast of the “teach-ins” happening around the country to “educate” students on Palestine.
Their Linktree says TeachingWhileMuslim is a great resource on Palestine. The extremism of TeachingWhileMuslim has been well documented in past posts on this substack. They also link to petitions to the United Federation of Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers.
Activists are organizing at the local level to influence national federation policy.
Massachusetts Teachers Association
(((they)) control the weather
This substack has already covered the deeply troubling lesson plans and resources connected to Ida In the Middle. Here it gets the full endorsement of these MTA teachers
Linda Sarsour, you’ll recall, was removed from the Women’s March for being too antisemitic even for them.
They also posted this unironically:
Chicago Educators for Palestine
Oregon Educators for Palestine
“Masking is encouraged!”
This is Refaat Alareer
West Contra Costa Unified School District Educators for Palestine
Amarillo Education Association
Here they call for a ceasefire in “Occupied Palestine” (unclear whether they mean Israel or they think Gaza is occupied) - in the second post, they play it safe and call for ceasefire in Palestine
The President of the Amarillo Education Association is very preoccupied with Palestine, posting about it regularly and even donning a Keffiyah.
The President of the Amarillo Education Association thinks that Liberalism is a dangerous form of white supremacy.
That was posted on October 19th. The post before that was on October 7th. He posted this.
Not a word about Hamas and the massacre of Israelis. In fact, not a word about Hamas in any of his posts. How surprising.
Oakland Educators for Palestine
Even the Glendale Teachers Association, whose instagram seems innocuous has interesting follows:
The point is this: Activists are using teachers association and unions to push an extreme, illiberal and antisemitic agenda. This is not confined to only a few or only a few areas of the country but is widespread. Know what is happening in your local teachers associations - know what is happening in your child’s classroom.