Massachusetts: Newton Public Schools Sued for Teaching Anti-Semitic Curriculum

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Replacement. This situation has come about because Muslim migrants are replacing Jews as a presence in the public square in the U.S. and elsewhere, and bringing their antisemitism with them. The parents who are suing are concerned about the use of Islam-biased, anti-Semitic and anti-Israel instructional materials, and by the failure of Newton’s public schools to teach students objectively and without proselytizing or propaganda.

This is going on in public schools across America. But the role of Islam in the world — creed apartheid, Islamic supremacism, gender apartheid,  Islamic misogyny, cultural annihilation, enslavement and the hundreds of millions of victims of jihadi wars — is scrubbed and whitewashed in the classroom.

I address this issue in depth in my 2011 book Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance. Those of us who warned of this for years were mocked, smeared and defamed as “conspiracy theorists” up until American schoolchildren were coming home reciting the shahada and praising jihad in the cause of Islam.

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American schools are proselytizing for Islam in the classroom. This dangerous trend has been increasing over the past ten years, to a point where innocent children are being forced to say the shahada and learning the central tenets of Islam. Other religions are given short shrift, and the little attention they are given is negative and wrong.

Religion has no place in the public school. It is a violation of the establishment clause. And the islamization of the school curriculum is disarming American children in the gravest threat to their future.

“Newton Public Schools Sued for Teaching Anti-Semitic Curriculum,” Americans for Peace & Tolerance, March 18, 2019:

NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS. On March 12, 2019, Newton taxpayers filed a lawsuit in Middlesex Superior Court against the Newton School Committee, Superintendent of Schools David Fleishman, the principals of the Newton high schools, and certain high school history teachers. Plaintiffs are asking for a court order that would compel Newton school officials to stop indoctrinating students with anti-Semitism, bigotry against Israel, and Islamist religious dogma as part of the high school history curriculum. This suit was made necessary because the embattled school administration is shielding its teachers from scrutiny and refusing to supervise what is being taught in its classrooms. The taxpayers claim that Newton Public Schools (NPS) has deliberately failed and refused to comply with the Equal Rights Amendment of the Massachusetts Constitution, with the Massachusetts Student Anti-Discrimination Act, and with civil rights regulations that require schools, through their curricula, to encourage respect for the human and civil rights of all individuals regardless of race, identity, religion, color, sex, and national origin.

The extensively documented 469 page legal complaint, available here, details the lengthy history of Newton residents’ efforts to have NPS address and correct the factually flawed teaching. Plaintiffs and their attorney were provided with an enormous volume of factual documentation by Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) Executive Director Ilya Feoktistov, whose investigations over the past several months formed the basis of this action.

“In looking for the sources of the anti-Semitic and anti-Israel bigotry in the Newton curriculum, we discovered a few bad apple teachers who view their teaching positions as giving them license to promote their personal political agendas,” said Mr. Feoktistov. “We are also looking closely at a common pattern with these politicized teachers – most, if not all, have taken professional development courses developed with foreign funding by the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia.”

“Newton history teachers and school administrators must think either that anti-discrimination laws do not apply to them, or that these laws do not protect their Jewish and Israeli students,” said the President of APT, Charles Jacobs. “There is no academic freedom to brainwash students with fake history and pro-Arab or anti-Semitic propaganda that is, these days, alarmingly too common on the left in America.”

Evidence described in the complaint shows how Newton teachers teach that Jews and Christians deliberately forged their holy texts to contradict the Muslim Quran; that Zionism has “little connection” to Jewish history in “Palestine;” that the Jews took advantage of the Holocaust to gain sympathy for Zionism at the expense of “Arab plight;” and that the Israelis treat the Palestinians like the Nazis treated the Jews. After being taught all this, students are asked to debate whether there should be a one or two-state solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Karen Hurvitz, attorney for the taxpayers, stated that her clients are not asking for money damages, even though defendants have certainly caused years of incalculable damage by their insistence on teaching impressionable students materials that slander Israel and Jews. “This is the type of teaching that leads to anti-Semitism – and it has. The taxpayers here are merely asking NPS to perform their duties and obey the law, which requires that their curriculum encourage respect for all people. Education should be based on fact, not on stereotypes and propaganda.”

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TomSJr
TomSJr
5 years ago

Patriots who want to be a part of the Resistance movement against the liberals, socialist, communists, and loonies in America, need to read Pam Geller’s book, “Stop the Islamization of America: A Practical Guide to the Resistance.”

If you can’t buy it, go to your local library and request it. IT WILL OPEN YOUR EYES.

THANK YOU, PAMELA GELLER!

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  TomSJr

Most libraries won’t carry that. Most have become politically corrected years ago but still it’s worth looking to see if they have it. Buy it and pass it around! Ebay has it! Most parents are totally oblivious. They don’t even know there is a problem. Maybe you should list a few not all, of the suggestions in the book at various websites. to help wake them up.

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=m570.l1313&_nkw=%22Stop+the+Islamization+of+America%3A+A+Practical+Guide+to+the+Resistance.%22&_sacat=0

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

Exactly, my local library doesn’t carry any counter-jihad literature whatsoever, nothing by heavyweights like Ms. Geller, Robert Spencer, Bill Warner or lightweights like Mark Steyn.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

I discovered that years ago. My kids attended a Christian school, K-12. They had to do projects on historical figures. One chose Martin Luther as one of the people involved in the Reformation. There was not ONE SINGLE BOOK on that Martin Luther. NOT ONE! There were countless books on Martin Luther King. Also books magically go into “mending”. They never manage to get back on the shelf.

I saw a library attendant wheeling out books on a cart and literally tossing them into a dumpster bin. There were perfectly fine. Other people were going through them and taking them. ALL of them were books that were not politically correct. I don’t need any more books but I walked over to see what was going on. When I asked about why they were throwing them out I was told they needed more “diversity” and more modern reading material. Liberals don’t like classics or conservative reading material. It’s been going on for at at least 20 years or longer. Books are being purged.

Some books you can still find but the prices on Ebay, Amazon or some of the other resellers jack up the price to where it is ridiculous and people won’t buy it. It reminds me of China’s cultural revolution under Mao Zedong . Radical youth served as his Red Guards. I am not exaggerating. Antifa and other groups behave just like the Red Guard.

China’s Cultural Revolution
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/world/asia/china-cultural-revolution-explainer.html

Obama liked Mao too. He had Christmas balls on the WH Christmas tree with his face on them.

White House Christmas Decor Featuring Mao Zedong Comes Under Fire
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-christmas-decor-featuring-mao-zedong-comes-under-firecomment image#mao%20christmas%20bulb
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MitchHill
MitchHill
5 years ago

Taxpayer public should receive monitary damages because the antijewish revisionist history is being funded by the saudis and qatar.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago
Reply to  MitchHill

We need to get FOREIGN money out of education.

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

How many other school districts across the U.S. are doing nothing as ISLAM is pushed?

In K-12 Islam is being promoted as well as LBGTQ, Marxism, abortion, gender fluid identity etc..
Yes, they start them out in kindergarten for this and some progressive pre-school proudly have drag queens come in and read to them to desensitize them for K-12. Parents seem to be oblivious. What is going on is positively evil.

5-Year old Child Given OK to Start Sex Change in Australia
By Anita Fuentes -December 10, 2016

BBC News reported that the child is known only as Carla, and identifies as a girl despite lacking female sex organs.

http://openyoureyespeoplebreakingnews.com/2016/12/10/5-year-old-child-given-ok-to-start-sex-change-in-australia/

Janet
Janet
5 years ago

I’d be willing to bet that it’s going on in many schools in our country. Any parents that bring it up are bullied with cries of racism and even threaten. The Left will go to any extreme to protect Islam and smear Jews and Christians. So where’s the ACLU in all of this? Totally silent!

JGray1
JGray1
5 years ago

the suicidal inclinations of western socieites is the most baffling conundrum one could possibly imagine. the west is determined to dissolve itself by its own hand. the greatest constitutional republic in the history of the world is being threatened by anti america anti constitutional anti semitic racist lowlives. if it is not stopped all our individual freedoms our pursuit of happiness and our ability to speak out in a marketplace of ideas (as dershowitz phrased it) will be gone. and it will never come back. a boot stamping on a human face forever. that is the future.

JGray1
JGray1
5 years ago

the suicidal inclinations of western socieites is the most baffling conundrum one could possibly imagine. the west is determined to dissolve itself by its own hand. the greatest constitutional republic in the history of the world is being threatened by anti america anti constitutional anti semitic racist lowlives. if it is not stopped all our individual freedoms our pursuit of happiness and our ability to speak out in a marketplace of ideas (as dershowitz phrased it) will be gone. and it will never come back. a boot stamping on a human face forever. that is the future.

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