The San Francisco Unified School District is pushing radical propaganda that teaches students about “Israeli terrorism,” according to a new report.
District officials provided teachers with educational resources to lead classroom discussions on “war, terrorism, colonization, and seeking peace.”
According to documents obtained by National Review, one of the resources provided for teachers “promotes multiple anti-Zionist articles and viewpoints, including an article published by Jerome Slater at the Middle East Policy Council.”
“In the article, Slater blames Israel for Hamas violence and speculates that failed Palestinian resistance efforts have made Palestinian terrorism a last resort,” the outlet reported.
“While all terrorism is morally wrong, it is still possible and perhaps necessary to make some distinctions,” the article reads.
“There can be degrees of moral wrong; we commonly make such distinctions and consider mitigating circumstances, especially between moral wrongs committed in pursuit of just causes and the double moral wrong of injustices done for unjust causes …
“For several reasons, Israeli terrorism has been morally worse than that of the Palestinians.”
National Review gave examples of other educational materials provided to San Francisco Unified School District teachers.
The materials, which were discovered by Parents Defending Education, include guidelines urging teachers to consider how they can “educate in hopes of a truly just and lasting peace in Israel-Palestine.”
Teachers are told to ask students: “How has the decades-long conflict between Israel and Palestine taken shape over time to this current conflagration?”
Another teaching resource was a video titled, “Challenging Antisemitism from a Framework of Collective Liberation.”
The video’s description on YouTube states:
“The need for educational resources on antisemitism within a pedagogic framework of collective liberation is particularly important for this moment–as rising white nationalist violence targets many of our communities, including Jews, Muslims, black people, immigrant communities, trans and queer people, among others, and as false charges of antisemitism are directed at seekers of Palestinian justice.”
Local students in the district made news when they staged a walk-out in “support of Palestine” in October, according to the San Francisco Examiner.
Students were also supported by teachers and San Francisco Board of Supervisors member Hillary Ronen.
According to the article, Ronan said at the press conference:
“My father always told me that Israelis and Palestinians are cousins.
“We must stop seeing one another as less than human, and our leaders must stop dehumanizing us.”
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