Anti-Semitic Bias in Calif Schools?

[Nakosis]

Has political correctness gone too far in Calif?

As Americans grapple with shifts in culture and demographics, majority-minority California is developing a high school curriculum in ethnic studies, one of the first nationally. Not long ago — while managing his extracurriculars and winnowing his college choices — Eli Safaie-Kia, 17, found time to discover a draft of it.

Its contents were, in some ways, standard-issue: readings and projects aimed at fostering tolerance, offering non-traditional perspectives and helping a massive, multicultural populace better understand one another. But in other ways, the draft was confusing even to a Generation Z kid from a blue-state. For one, it presented Israel in a way that went heavy on Palestinian oppression and scarcely mentioned the Holocaust...

...Now, as the comment period for the draft approaches its Aug. 15 deadline, hundreds of complaints, suggestions and op-eds have posted, from conservatives who don’t like its depiction of capitalism as a “form of power and oppression,” to parents stumped by its academic jargon to no small number of Californians who, like Safaie-Kia, wonder why it says so little about anti-Semitism.
Is ethnic studies plan too politically correct even for California?

Is this biased towards a leftist position or or is this something reasonable to be teaching in our public schools?

 

[Epic Beard Man]

Okay so when do you get to the part of where this is anti-Semitic?

 

[Revoltingest]

Or the pro-Israel bias is receding, eh.

 

[Nakosis]

Okay so when do you get to the part of where this is anti-Semitic?

You don't think focusing on Palestinian oppression without a similar focus on the Holocaust and Antisemitism prejudicial?

But it was the built-in bias against Jews and Israel that led the California Legislative Jewish Caucus to send a letter excoriating the curriculum. Medina, a member of the caucus, signed on.
The letter points out that the curriculum encourages students to study the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement as one of various worthy “social movements.” It defines BDS as “a global social movement that currently aims to establish freedom for Palestinians living under apartheid conditions. Inspired by tactics employed during the South African anti-apartheid movement, the Palestinian-led movement calls for the boycott, divestment, and sanctioning of the Israeli government until it complies with International law.” Nowhere does it acknowledge that this is a controversial movement with many opponents, or that it also would cut off Israeli scholars; it is written as though there is one truth and one truth only for students to learn about this.

It’s also remarkable that Israel is singled out in this way. What about nations that deprive women of basic rights and religious groups of the right to practice their beliefs? If this is a course about international rights controversies, it is woefully noninclusive.

Opinion: Is California's draft ethnic studies curriculum anti-Semitic?

 

[metis]

The Israeli/Palestinian conflict is not the same as the Holocaust.

 

[Father Heathen]

Somehow I knew this would be about criticism of the Israeli government rather than actual antisemitism.

 

[Lyndon]

BDS is not anti Semitic, it is pro Palestinian.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I think the Holocaust should be taught as any other event in history but we need to stop presenting it as some extraordinary event in history that's somehow more special than all the other genocides people have perpetrated against each other. They've basically made it into some religious thing and that's kind of sick. We don't talk about what the Ottoman Turks did to the Armenians or what Stalin did to Ukrainians, after all, and those are arguably just as historically important.

Anyway, this just sounds like whining because it doesn't have a Zionist slant. Boo hoo. That has no place in a public school curriculum.

 

[Enoch07]

BDSM is not anti Semitic, it is pro Palestinian.

And Palestinians tend to be anti-semitic.

 

[whirlingmerc]

Has political correctness gone too far in Calif?

As Americans grapple with shifts in culture and demographics, majority-minority California is developing a high school curriculum in ethnic studies, one of the first nationally. Not long ago — while managing his extracurriculars and winnowing his college choices — Eli Safaie-Kia, 17, found time to discover a draft of it.

Its contents were, in some ways, standard-issue: readings and projects aimed at fostering tolerance, offering non-traditional perspectives and helping a massive, multicultural populace better understand one another. But in other ways, the draft was confusing even to a Generation Z kid from a blue-state. For one, it presented Israel in a way that went heavy on Palestinian oppression and scarcely mentioned the Holocaust...

...Now, as the comment period for the draft approaches its Aug. 15 deadline, hundreds of complaints, suggestions and op-eds have posted, from conservatives who don’t like its depiction of capitalism as a “form of power and oppression,” to parents stumped by its academic jargon to no small number of Californians who, like Safaie-Kia, wonder why it says so little about anti-Semitism.
Is ethnic studies plan too politically correct even for California?

Is this biased towards a leftist position or or is this something reasonable to be teaching in our public schools?

Such politically correct things do tend to have their own blind spots. True

 

[Lyndon]

And Palestinians tend to be anti-semitic.

Palestinians are Semitic

 

[Augustus]

BDSM is not anti Semitic, it is pro Palestinian.

Can't beat a gimp suit for facilitating national liberation...

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Can't beat a gimp suit for facilitating national liberation...

Lmao. I didn't even notice that.

 

[Nakosis]

The Israeli/Palestinian conflict is not the same as the Holocaust.

Don't you think understanding the Holocaust is essential to understanding Israel's position on Palestine?

 

[metis]

Don't you think understanding the Holocaust is essential to understanding Israel's position on Palestine?

In terms of cause & effect, yes.

 

[Nakosis]

I think the Holocaust should be taught as any other event in history but we need to stop presenting it as some extraordinary event in history that's somehow more special than all the other genocides people have perpetrated against each other. They've basically made it into some religious thing and that's kind of sick. We don't talk about what the Ottoman Turks did to the Armenians or what Stalin did to Ukrainians, after all, and those are arguably just as historically important.

Anyway, this just sounds like whining because it doesn't have a Zionist slant. Boo hoo. That has no place in a public school curriculum.

What's the idea do you think behind the curriculum?
Cultural tolerance?
There has been a large increase in anti-semitic hate crimes in Calif. Should public schools attempt to address this as well?

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

What's the idea do you think behind the curriculum?
Cultural tolerance?
There has been a large increase in anti-semitic hate crimes in Calif. Should public schools attempt to address this as well?

I don't know. I think school curriculums should be fact-based and not political in nature.

 

[Father Heathen]

Does being critical of the Chinese government's human right's abuses mean that you hate asians?

 

[Enoch07]

Palestinians are Semitic

Iran–Palestine relations - Wikipedia

Iranian Regime Continues to Propagate Anti-Semitic Tropes

 

[leov]

Has political correctness gone too far in Calif?

As Americans grapple with shifts in culture and demographics, majority-minority California is developing a high school curriculum in ethnic studies, one of the first nationally. Not long ago — while managing his extracurriculars and winnowing his college choices — Eli Safaie-Kia, 17, found time to discover a draft of it.

Its contents were, in some ways, standard-issue: readings and projects aimed at fostering tolerance, offering non-traditional perspectives and helping a massive, multicultural populace better understand one another. But in other ways, the draft was confusing even to a Generation Z kid from a blue-state. For one, it presented Israel in a way that went heavy on Palestinian oppression and scarcely mentioned the Holocaust...

...Now, as the comment period for the draft approaches its Aug. 15 deadline, hundreds of complaints, suggestions and op-eds have posted, from conservatives who don’t like its depiction of capitalism as a “form of power and oppression,” to parents stumped by its academic jargon to no small number of Californians who, like Safaie-Kia, wonder why it says so little about anti-Semitism.
Is ethnic studies plan too politically correct even for California?

Is this biased towards a leftist position or or is this something reasonable to be teaching in our public schools?

Some people just have it in their blood without anything to do with Palestinians.