Anti-Zionism, antisemitism, lesson plans, and harassment

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Like I the said definition of antisemitism is contentious. When I was growing up the belief that Judaism conflates with Israel was ubiquitous among American Jews and Americans in general. While this has changed especially among young people a strong majority still agrees with this. Most Jewish prayer books still mention Zion and Israel, Most synagogues still hold fundraisers for Israel, many participate in birthright programs which sponsor trips to Israel for the purpose of discovering their Jewish heritage. Thus many contend that not conflating Judaism with Israeli is antisemitic because it is denying their identity.

Why do I claim the author of article believes that teaching Israeli is committing genocide is factually wrong and antisemitic when she did not explicitly say that? Because I am familiar with the think tank where she is a senior fellow.

Academics write curriculum. The administrators of local school district which we call a school board are elected officials. The Governors of each state are elected officials who appoint the people that set guidelines the school boards have to follow.

While teachers are not the authors of the curriculum, the teachers the article is about are supporters of the curriculum that is why she is blaming them.

The vast majority of zionists will say zionism is not blanket support for the government in Israel at the moment and everything they do although many anti zionists do conflate zionism with the blanket support of whatever Israel does. Most zionists define zionism as supporting the right of Jews to self determination while that often means a Jewish nation state not all self described zionists agree with that and many many self described zionists despise Netanyahu.

Wish , I had the skills to manipulate media like this , Interesting about facism , think it used to be considered a pro corporate economy was considered Fascist . Rather than a economy that is pro people .? Then still conflating Believers of the Judaic faith , with Israeli nationals . Notwithstanding about Israel and any basis with the Judaic faith.
The OP sounded like more crazys adding to the extra crazyness.

But teachers today often consume and regurgitate anachronistic propaganda uncritically.

But instead of a laser focus on how to educate kids, teachers are coming up with ever more ways to attack the existence of Israel.

Dillon Hosier, Chief Executive Officer of the Israeli-American Civic Action Network, explained that for generations, the Jewish community has poured its resources into nonprofits, which are not legally permitted to lobby. “Our opponents,” he said, referring to organizations like Council on American-Islamic Relations, “are putting people in public office and getting bills passed.”

In Portland, the Intifada Begins in Kindergarten

California Is Cleansing Jews From History (talking about Californias teachers)

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Aware of their ability to shape young minds, teachers encouraged schoolchildren to join “Walkouts” for Palestine, don keffiyehs, chant the eliminationist slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” and tell their Jewish classmates, “It is excellent what Hamas did to Israel,” according to a complaint filed to the U.S. Department of Education by the Brandeis Center and the Anti-Defamation League on behalf of Jewish students.

The Arab Resource and Organizing Center (“AROC”)

California’s letter to public schools is not enough to stop state-sponsored antisemitism By David Bernstein, Brandy Shufutinsky | August 31, 2023

The original curriculum, “Liberated Ethnic Studies,” was so outrageously antisemitic, it was officially abandoned. In The Free Press, Shufutinsky called it “a Trojan horse to institutionalize antisemitism in California schools.”
But even the successor course—implemented by many of the same educators who had proposed the Liberated Ethnic Studies curriculum in California—has provided a vehicle for anti-Israel indoctrination of American schoolchildren.
(Shufutinsky told me that the reformed curriculum teaches that “Israel is something that it isn’t. That it’s the ultimate evil. That it is apartheid. That it is a settler colonial state that deserves to be dismantled. That Zionism is racism.”)

She formed a nonprofit to organize against the inclusion of politicized ethnic studies in California schools and maintains an archive of the antisemitic materials promulgated in American classrooms.

“We’re raising a generation of antisemites,” (we as in teachers)

“What I saw was what seemed to be a very well-coordinated effort between activist teachers, activist organizations, and administrators that were trying to do a lot of kowtowing to progressive social ideology through programming and bringing that programming into their schools,” she said. “There is just this insidious idea that it is okay to hate Jews or attack Jews if they feel any connection to the Jewish homeland—to Israel; if there’s any expression of Jewish pride, especially when that pride is Zionism,” she said. “I think that antisemitism, like the Jew hatred, isn’t the end goal. I think it’s the symptom of a bigger anti-Western illiberalism that has taken over a lot of our institutions,” Shufutinsky told me. “Liberated Ethnic Studies.” This would eventually become the mandatory California Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum. In discussions about the need for ethnic studies, educators were uniquely fixated on promoting an anti-Israel agenda. “The whole goal for pushing ethnic studies, making it a requirement, was so that they could teach Palestine,” she said.

All of the above are excerpts from your opinion piece and cited articles/opinion pieces.
If one were to speak in a similar language and meaning like above but about Jews, I would have no trouble calling it antisemitic. They should provide some factual substance to their claims. (I'm referring to the above and not the issues happening to the individual Jewish people. It find the stories appalling, some I would like to have some more context to.)
It's like you said in the beginning, it's dehumanizing. I agree and I would call dehumanizing a hateful act. Hence me calling it spreading hate. I make a distinction between acting hateful, which I appeal to you not to take part in. And your right to be a hateful person, which I believe you have the right to be if you choose to.
I believe these authors have an agenda of changing this curriculum to what they are comfortable with, disregarding everyone else. And try to achieve by dehumanizing people. Some perhaps have good intentions but fail in previous mentioned way. Was it one or two who doesn't believe Israel is occupying/colonizing the West Bank, that's just bananas.
Where you are coming from, I'm not sure of. Why I ask and try to get some clarity. I do appreciate the back and forth. It's not only antisemitism that's increasing, it's hate in general. I have an issue with that and can be somewhat of a nuisance to others by challenging it. I apologize if I gave you any discomfort from that.

In Sweden Jewish people are a protected group among several other minority groups. Sweden has a somewhat similar history with it's native people like the US. They are one of the other protected groups. Expressing hate towards those specific groups is a crime.

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I could not agree more that the author has an agenda and that agenda is to change curriculum, more specifically to end the ethnic studies program. Spreading ones agenda is the whole point of opinion pieces. She may or may not be a vile bigot but I saw nothing in that piece that denigrated a group of people. She criticized that particular group of teachers agenda and their actions but not them personally. She hates their agenda but so it is verbally correct to say she is spreading hate, but in America “spreading hate” usually refers to spreading hate about a group of people.