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Tag Archives: California
CA school district committee leader described Jewish organizations that took issue with the curriculum as “racist Zionists”
LA TIMES Jewish advocacy groups allege antisemitism behind Santa Ana’s ethnic studies rollout Gabriel San Román August 28, 2024 An ethnic studies curriculum at Santa Ana Unified School District is headed for a court battle in an ongoing lawsuit that … Continue reading
“Reparations are the extraction of money from people who were never slave owners, to be given to people who were never slaves”
WASHINGTON TIMES Beyond cash: California reparations task force’s report stuffed with goodies Valerie Richardson July 11, 2023 Paying cash to descendants of enslaved people is just the beginning of the California Reparations Task Force’s ambitious progressive vision. Embedded in the … Continue reading
“A proposed curriculum magnifies differences, encourages tribal loyalties and advances ideological group think”
NEW YORK TIMES California’s Ethnic Studies Follies by Bret Stephens March 9, 2021 The first time California’s Department of Education published a draft of an ethnic studies “model curriculum” for high school students, in 2019, it managed the neat trick … Continue reading
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Tagged antisemitism, Bret Stephens, California
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“California’s proposed new ethnic studies curriculum is even worse than you imagined”
TABLET MAG California Is Cleansing Jews From History by Emily Benedek January 27, 2021 …Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, director of AMCHA Initiative, which fights campus anti-Semitism, points out that all 13 founding members of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association (CESA) are BDS … Continue reading
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Tagged California, Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum
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“California voters overwhelmingly rejected Proposition 16, which would have allowed the State to openly discriminate in favor of the “aggrieved” groups liberals pander to — which of course works to the detriment of people that are more qualified”
SPECTATOR The Man Who Convinced California Voters to Reject Racial Quotas by Pat Nolan December 17, 2020 As Biden has frantically juggled potential nominees to placate each of the plethora of aggrieved special-interest groups that make up the modern Democratic … Continue reading
Come election day, Beverly Hills fears “Proud Boys and Q-Anon” not the arsonists and looters who terrorized them in June
FORWARD Beverly Hills prepares for doomsday by Danielle Berrin October 23, 2020 Beverly Hills is afraid. Very afraid. Two weeks ahead of what may prove the most contentious election in American history, rumors and fears of mass civil unrest are … Continue reading
Mandatory California high school curriculum would follow an “ethnic studies model curriculum” which accuses Jews of possessing “racial privilege”
WORLD ISRAEL NEWS California ethnic studies course accuses Jews of ‘racial privilege’ by Josh Plank September 2, 2020 The California legislature passed AB-331 on Monday, coming one step closer to becoming the first U.S. state to require all high school … Continue reading
California State Board of Education’s decision “a victory for all Californians and a defeat for anti-Semites and extremists”
JEWISH JOURNAL CA State Board of Education Says Proposed Ethnic Studies Curriculum Will ‘Be Substantially Redesigned’ by Aaron Bandler August 13, 2019 The California State Board of Education (SBE) announced on Aug. 12 that the proposed anti-Israel Ethnic Studies Model … Continue reading
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California high school curriculum “fully embraces a course of study about Arabs that views the Palestinian war on Israel solely from the point of view of those who wish to destroy the Jewish state”
ALGEMEINER California Curriculum Shows the Price of Complacency About BDS by Jonathan S. Tobin August 6, 2019 …While concern about right-wing hate is entirely appropriate, the notion that BDS poses no real menace to the Jewish community is utterly bogus. … Continue reading
Ahead of CA party convention, progressives put forth draft resolutions condemning Jerusalem for stoking anti-Semitism and calling for rollback of Trump Israel policies
TIMES OF ISRAEL Far-left California Democrats want to link Israeli gov’t to Pittsburgh massacre by JTA May 31, 2019 Far-left Democrats in California have put forth draft resolutions fiercely critical of Israel ahead of this weekend’s state party convention, including … Continue reading
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