California's Proposed Education Curriculum

Hat tip Stand With Us and Amcha Initiative


If you live in California, I hope you will read this, send your concerns, and pass it on. The California State Legislature is considering a state public school ethnic studies curriculum that is of great concern to the Jewish community. It incorporates the efforts of anti-Israel agitators and the BDS crowd to include pro-Palestinian propaganda into the curriculum that our kids will have to study. It does nothing to address the issue of anti-Semitism or even recognize Jews as a group facing discrimination. In short, this is a back door way to increase anti-Jewish sentiment among our school children. It is the Jewish children in our schools who will suffer the consequences.

https://www.standwithus.com/post/urgent-action-needed-stop-anti-israel-hate-in-california-public-schools

This is how the Boycott, Divest and Sanctions movement against Israel is described in the glossary and bibliography of proposed curriculum (p 2). You can access that page in the above link.

"Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)- is a global social movement that currently aims to establish freedom for Palestinians living under apartheid conditions. Inspired by tactics employed during the South African anti-apartheid movement, the Palestinian-led movement calls for the boycott, divestment, and sanctioning of the Israeli government until it complies with International law. BDS proponents and organizers have called for the global community to boycott or withdraw support from Israel and companies associated with it. The second component of BDS calls for governments, banks, universities, and other institutions to withdraw monetary support (divestment) from Israel and its companies. And finally, the third component—sanctions—asks international governments to hold Israel accountable for its actions through legislation, trade and military agreements, among other measures."

In addition, here is their definition of capitalism-just to give you more of a flavor of where this is all going.

"Capitalism- an economic and political system in which industry and trade are based on a “free market” and largely controlled by private companies instead of the government. Within Ethnic Studies, scholars are often very critical of the system of capitalism as research has shown that Native people and people of color are disproportionately exploited within the system. In a capitalist economy, surplus value (profit) is generated from human labor and everything is commodified."

In fact, I encourage the reader to read the entire glossary and definitions pp 1-22. There is so much I could throw in here, but that's probably for a separate post. This is scary stuff

This is California, Folks.