In this episode of "Teachers Unions and the Left-Wing Indoctrination of America's Children"...
Let's begin with a one-question quiz on the Holocaust, during which German dictator Adolf Hitler's Nazis and allies killed millions of people. The answer should be easy for those with even a modicum of knowledge of one of mankind's most horrific genocidal periods.
Here we go: Which of the two following descriptions of the Holocaust is most accurate in detail?
This one:
[The NEA] will promote the celebration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day by recognizing more than 12 million victims of the Holocaust from different faiths, ethnicities, races, political beliefs, genders, and gender identification, abilities/disabilities, and other targeted characteristics.
Or this one:
[The NEA] will promote promote the celebration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day] by "recognizing that the The Nazis and their allies and collaborators killed six million Jewish people. ... The Nazis and their allies and collaborators also committed other mass atrocities ... persecuted and killed millions of non-Jewish people.
I suspect you chose the second description.
Yet, the National Education Association (NEA), in its 2025 handbook for members, "forgot" to mention that Hitler and the Nazis implemented the "Final Solution," a plan to annihilate Europe's Jews, and that the planned genocide (1933-1945) of the Jews was the culmination of a decade of German policy under Nazi rule and Hitler's core goal.
The NEA, the country's largest teachers union — with more than three million members, including educators, students, activists, and other supporters of public education — is promoting a version of the Holocaust that omits specific mention of Jewish victims, according to the handbook.
While the guide instead refers to "victims of the Holocaust from different faiths," it also portrays (lies about) the 1948 founding of Israel as involving "forced, violent displacement and dispossession."
It should also be noted that the NEA Representative Assembly, the union's parliamentary body, earlier in July passed a resolution to boycott the Anti-Defamation League's Holocaust education materials earlier this month, a vote the union's leadership rejected.
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In addition to its attempt to virtually erase Jews from Holocaust history, the NEA's 2025 handbook also includes a description of its plans to "educate members and the general public about the history of the Palestinian Nakba," while demonizing Israel.
The NEA handbook describes the Nakba thusly (emphasis, mine):
NEA will use existing digital education tools to educate members and the general public about the history of the Palestinian Nakba. The Nakba, meaning "catastrophe" in Arabic, refers to the forced, violent displacement and dispossession of at least 750,000 Palestinians in 1948 establishment of the state of Israel.
Educating about the Nakba is essential for understanding the Palestinian diaspora narrative and experience, including the ongoing trauma of our Palestinian students today. Teaching about the Nakba fosters critical thinking and empathy among students, promoting a deeper understanding of historical injustices and their contemporary ramifications.
I dunno — maybe the October 7, 2023, massacre of more than 1,200 in Israel by Hamas warrants a bit of "critical thinking and empathy" on the left, including the NEA, other teachers unions, and in the curriculum of America's schools, not to mention America's no-longer-hallowed halls of education.
Editor's Note: President Trump is fighting to dismantle the Department of Education and ensure America's kids get the education they deserve.
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