COMMENTARY
Why America’s Largest Teachers Union Turned Against the ADL
Seth Mandel
July 9, 2025

The National Education Association, America’s largest teachers union, has voted to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League. The ADL has played a significant role in public education over the years because of the growth of Holocaust studies, becoming a trusted partner of the unions in the process. That relationship might soon be over. The reason the NEA is seeking to sever ties with the ADL is because the unions are more broadly expanding their dissemination of baldly anti-Semitic “classroom materials” and don’t want the ADL—or anyone—standing in their way. Which means the rationale behind the decision is potentially even more transformative than the decision itself. READ MORE

MAJOR TRUTHACHE When Terrorists Write the Curriculum When the National Education Association—a fading union now more fluent in TikTok trends than phonics—cuts ties with the Anti-Defamation League, it barely causes a ripple. A teachers’ union breaking up with a Jewish civil rights group in 2024? Please. We’ve seen this movie before. And the sequel? Worse. Louder. And more dangerous.

JNS Why are America’s teachers’ unions at war with Israel? The NEA’s decision to cut ties with the ADL illustrates how progressives who think Jews and the Jewish state are “white” oppressors have captured the education establishment.