As I have often done in the past, I am cross-posting an op-ed by my friend, Tammi Rossman-Benjamin of the Amcha Initiative, which appears in the Jewish Journal (Los Angeles). It concerns the California Faculty Association (CFA), which represents teachers in the California State University (CSU) system, which comprises 23 campuses. This organization has been working to dilute protections for Jewish students in California Assembly Bill 715, which was an attempt to eliminate any anti-Semitism in California's ethnic studies curricula in K-12.
In the article, Tammi points out three professors who are leading the charge: Melina Abdullah of California State University at Los Angeles, Theresa Montaño, California State University at Northridge, and Rabab Abdulhadi of San Francisco State. Of the three, it was Abdulhadi who caught my attention. I have written often about her on this site. I vividly recall the time she was scheduled to speak at UC Irvine, in 2015, and somehow never materialized on stage after I showed up with my video camera, and a dean who was present refused to enforce the Muslim Students Union's demand that no videotaping be done. Three chairs were sitting on the stage, and nobody ever sat in them. Instead, organizers hurriedly organized a Skype interview with some Palestinian character in Washington DC.
I find it greatly concerning that activist professors in the California State University system, as well as the University of California system, are so intent on indoctrinating our children in elementary and secondary schools with so many negative references to Jews, as outlined by Tammi. We have a serious problem of anti-Semitism, largely due to the constant anti-Israel propaganda on behalf of the Palestinian cause. First, it was in our universities, and now it is spreading to K-12, largely thanks to academic activists. They should stay out of our elementary and secondary schools and worry about their university campuses, which are in sorry shape, I must say (because of them).
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