Most people around the world are rejoicing over the end of the Israel-Hamas war and the signing of a peace agreement brought about by President Donald Trump that released the remaining hostages in captivity. Even Democrats and Trump's biggest critics have begrudgingly given him credit for the amazing achievement that the agreement is. In a region of the world that has seen more than its share of war and conflict, there is a renewed hope for a lasting peace. But on the same day as word of the agreement was becoming known, the people charged with teaching America's children had other ideas.
Did the NEA forget something? The union sent its members an article featuring a world map that erased Israel. This is not a simple oversight, but a shocking act that denies both history and present reality.
— ADL (@ADL) October 10, 2025
Educators should be teaching facts, not rewriting them. pic.twitter.com/YoO7nnozHF
On Friday, the National Education Association (NEA) sent out an email to its three million members. While an email might be completely innocent, it was the contents that should raise the eyebrows of every parent. The email contained a map of the Middle East. No country was identified by name, but where most maps would identify the country of Israel, this one identified the same area of land as "Palestine."
The North American Values Institute (NAVI) is an education watchdog organization that exposed the problematic email. Among the other items in the email were resources for teachers for “teaching about indigenous peoples." Included with the map was material that defended the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas, as well as links to groups that purportedly “glorify terrorism."
Steve Rosenberg is the Philadelphia regional director for NAVI. He stated:
It’s deeply troubling that the nation’s largest teachers’ union would promote materials trafficking in antisemitic tropes and attempts to rationalize the atrocities of Oct. 7, let alone elevate groups that glorify terrorism.
Rosenberg added after the NEA "discovered" and removed the items from the website, “The NEA owes educators, parents and the public a full explanation and a sincere apology.”
A spokesman for the NEA placed the blame on a third party and stated that they have “always opposed antisemitism.” That may be, but while the most offensive material has been scrubbed from the website, something called a "Native Digital Land Map" still shows the territory of Palestine, and describes it as "indigenous." The NEA spokesman went on to say:
After we became aware of content on this website — particularly related to Israel and Palestine — we conducted our own deeper review including links to additional third-party hosted content. Upon review, we immediately removed it from the website.
NEA is a radical, anti-American monopoly funded by taxpayer dollarshttps://t.co/XJarGYuA4y
— Mark R. Levin (@marklevinshow) October 13, 2025
But is the NEA really sorry for the horrific content on their website, or are they just sorry they got caught? The Israel-Hamas conflict may have revealed the union's true colors. In July, they cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League over the war. In August, the House Committee on Education and Workforce, headed up by Chairman Rep. Tim Walberg (R-MI), wrote in a letter to NEA president Rebecca Pringle that he was:
...gravely concerned about antisemitic content in the NEA's 2025 handbook and the NEA Representative Assembly's vote in July 2025 to ban materials by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
Passages in the handbook explain a lot about the NEA's Middle East map, and their apparent grooming of the next generation of antisemites in America's classrooms. It included plans "to promote a version of Holocaust remembrance that does not specifically mention Jews" - not sure what sort of pretzel twisting is needed to do that - and also details to "educate members and the general public about the history of the Palestinian Nakba," which was described as the "forced, violent displacement and dispossession of at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland in 1948 during the establishment of Israel." But not to worry, the handbook also stated that NEA members would "educate members about the difference between anti-Zionism and antisemitism" (can't wait to hear that one), and promote "free speech in defense of Palestine at K-12 schools, colleges, and universities."
Steve Rosenberg also stated about the NEA:
At best, this reflects an organization that failed to meet its own standards of critical review and responsibility. That’s an inexcusable lapse for any institution entrusted with shaping young minds.
While the world celebrates peace, the NEA celebrates its own agenda.
Since Oct. 7, classrooms have been flooded with anti-Semitic teaching materials. Union leaders claimed that their teachers are thoughtfully fostering debate and that the use of these materials does not suggest the unions agree with them.
— Seth Mandel (@SethAMandel) July 9, 2025
The NEA has just exposed this as a lie: pic.twitter.com/zfqoG7kwWi
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