NEA Erases Jews From Holocaust in New Handbook
“The description does not mention the attempted extermination of the Jewish people by the Nazis.”
The National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers’ union in the United States, is facing backlash and calls for investigation after revelations that its new handbook erases Jews from Holocaust remembrance while devoting extensive attention to Palestinian “Nakba” education and anti-Zionism.
The Washington Free Beacon reported:
“The nation’s largest teachers’ union plans to promote a version of Holocaust remembrance that does not mention Jews, according to its 2025 handbook, which references ‘victims of the Holocaust from different faiths’ and teaches that Israel was founded through ‘forced, violent displacement and dispossession,’ its most recent guide for members shows.”
The NEA handbook outlines its plan for International Holocaust Remembrance Day without mentioning the Jewish people, despite the Holocaust being the attempted extermination of Jews by the Nazis:
“NEA shall promote the celebration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 annually… to recognize the more than 12 million victims of the Holocaust from different faiths, ethnicities, races, political beliefs, genders, and gender identification, abilities/disabilities, and other targeted characteristics.”
As the Free Beacon noted:
“The description does not mention the attempted extermination of the Jewish people by the Nazis.”
While erasing Jews from Holocaust remembrance, the NEA devotes extensive detail to Palestinian “Nakba” education. The handbook reads:
“The Nakba, meaning ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic, refers to the forced, violent displacement and dispossession of at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland in 1948 during the establishment of the state of Israel.”
It goes on:
“Educating about the Nakba is essential for understanding the Palestinian diaspora narrative and experience, including the ongoing trauma of our Palestinian American students today. Teaching about the Nakba fosters critical thinking and empathy among students, promoting a deeper understanding of historical injustices and their contemporary ramifications.”
The NEA also pledged to advance anti-Zionist messaging under the guise of distinguishing it from antisemitism:
“NEA will use existing digital communication tools to educate members about the difference between anti-Zionism and antisemitism.”
The Free Beacon highlighted that this approach echoes resolutions previously pushed by the union’s more extreme members:
“The news comes amid a surge in both anti-Semitism and anti-Israel extremism at public schools and within teachers’ unions themselves. The NEA Representative Assembly—the union’s parliamentary body—passed a resolution to boycott the Anti-Defamation League’s Holocaust education materials earlier this month, a vote the union’s leadership rejected.”
The Free Beacon amplified the controversy with a blunt message on social media, reporting that Congress would now be taking a closer look at the union’s actions:
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The House Education and Workforce Committee has opened an anti-Semitism investigation into the nation's largest teachers' union, the National Education Association, citing "antisemitic content" in its 2025 handbook. pic.twitter.com/eF9CTRRfiC
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) August 22, 2025
The NEA’s controversial framing comes at a time of rising antisemitism across American schools and campuses. By erasing Jews from Holocaust remembrance while simultaneously portraying Israel’s founding as a “catastrophe,” the nation’s largest teachers’ union is now squarely in the sights of congressional investigators.
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The left never stops.
They have to be stopped.
The only way to stop them is to disabuse them of their fundamental beliefs.
That is never going to happen
That’s one way. There are others…
Oh, it’ll happen, my Teufelhunden brother. It’s just one of those deals that’s a permanent fix to what should (but clearly is not) a temporary problem.
Just as Islamofascism/Muslim supremacism/Muslim terrorism never stops, and hasn’t, in 1,400 years.
No wonder American Dhimmi-crats and European, leftist dhimmis, and, Islamofascists, make such gleeful ideological brethren.
I knew Jews who were anti-Zionists, but they weren’t this bad—or at least I didn’t see it.
this is what happens when the left is allowed to control the narrative
“GUN VIOLENCE”
adding suicides by gun to the homicide stats
erasing homicide/crime stats in their blue states
blmplo runs america
Can a union be exterminated? Followed by eliminating teacher certification requirements. We need to replace most with non certified teacher. This served children’s needs well in the past.
No and the erasure of history is the first, vital step to get to the world they want us all to live in. There is a reason that the left fights against private education so hard, they want to control what children learn.
The NEA backs one of our political parties to the hilt.
The NEA isbeing intellectually consistent, considering that they support the antisemitic political party.
While researching my dad’s life for a family history I am writing, I found out that his company liberated the last concentration camp in Nazi hands at the end WW-II in Europe. Gunzkirchen sub-camp of Matthausen. He never spoke of it to anyone, or for than matter of anything in Europe after he landed shortly after the D-Day landings. Between that research, and the fact that I am an amateur historian and have been all my life; I am now in a position where I want to use language that the Professor would not allow.
A couple of years ago, I created a meme that has spread in certain circles.
TWANLOC
Those Who Are No Longer Our Countrymen. The NEA has voluntarily enlisted in that group.
Subotai Bahadur
I can understand why he would not talk about the war and especially not Mauthausen. I have been there and it is a very, very grim place. I can’t imagine what it must have been like when he was there.
No different than the UN, as seen in the earlier thread. It is now in the DNA of the moral midgets and haters.
A recent article interesting explains how antisemitism cloaks itself in righteousness, and today’s anti-Zionism is just the latest passion play. Jews as the villains, and those who want them dead the redeemers. Worth the read to better understand the pathology of this crowd.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/holiest-hatred-antisemitism
Yes, the extermination included millions of non-Jews BUT only one group got the title “Final Solution”. After elimination of the Jews, the Slavs were next on the list but were never mentioned in Mein Kampf … just another group like the gypsies. The Arabs who chose to leave Israel at the start of the 1948 war did so to benefit from the destruction of Israel…. some self -preservation and others for the goodies the dead Jews would leave behind. They lost.. Israel won. Might as well have Germany demand return of the land they controlled in 1941.
Not to mention, that the resurrection of modern-day Israel in 1948 represents the return of the land’s indigenous people, whose forebears were living in ancient Israel and Judaea for millennia, before the founding of the supremacist, totalitarian, belligerent, hate-filled and pathology-laden ideology of “Submission.”
The so-called “Palestinians” are nothing more than Arab invaders from Arabia who co-opted the name of Roman Palaestina, in order to retroactively revise history and legitimize their invasive presence in the area.
The Nakba is mostly a myth. It’s rewriting history, Many many arabs left voluntarily. They weren’t violently booted out although in hindsight I believe they should all have been,
Note that that these aholes don’t seem to mention the relocation of a 1M Jews from their communities in arab countries where they had been living in some cases for 1000s of years to Israel. This is true ethnic cleansing and was done by arabs. By muslims. Of course that doesn’t fit the NEA’s racist bigoted narrative,
BTW: 2/3 NEA leaders are fat black women, The other is a white male simp. Will wonders never cease.
Also forgotten are the nearly 800,000 Jews who were forcibly ejected from Muslim/Arab lands when Israel declared its independence. Most of these people were resettled in Israel. They did not become permanent refugees for the Jews to use as poster children for the cruelty of the Arab world. Imagine that.
The Holocaust card has been trumped by the Palestinian Holocaust card. This is apparently just the DEA doing its part, but it is universal on campus now anyway.
If Jews want political advantage back, they have to find the right argument. Morality might be a good thing to mention. It’s actually something to be proud of.
The Holocaust only works internally now to cause alienation and discourage assimilation.
Ignorant to the point of idiotic to pretend it is about having the right argument. Out of touch with reality.
Making it sound like the Holocaust is just an idea to be argued could be argued is Holocaust denial.
If the campus is favoring the Palestinians, obviously it’s the wrong argument. “We are so oppressed” always goes to stupid brown people over smart white people, when there’s a competition.
Why is it supposed to be important that Jews are oppressed anyway? It’s always “compared to who.” No political edge comes of it.
What is important is Judaic morality. That’s one you can win easily.
Will leave mental masturbation to others with no clue about reality. Keep pretending it’s about arguments. It’s all you ever mention and it’s not even very high level theory for a person that rails about IQ.
The village idiot returns, to spew more of his idiocy.
You’re a fool, a moron, a clown, a putz and a cad.
How many times are you going to spew this idiocy. It’s the next Holocaust that we are worried about, not the last one. Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah vow to annihilate Israel and Jews everywhere. Leftist march on campuses shouting globalize the Intifada. It is this existential threat that we must do everything in our power to prevent. You repeat this same mantra on every blog you frequent. The fact that everyone calls you an idiot does not seems to deter you in the least.
That’s what I always say. The Holocaust card is to produce alienation internally among Jews. It has no rhetorical effect on the outside, which is why the Holocaust argument isn’t working anywhere.
That would all be none of my concern except there is a perfectly good winning argument that Jews can make externally, and nobody ever makes it. Namely the moral system created by the religion itself, which by the way Israel continues to follow even in this war.
The war is supported by the right of self-defense, not by the Holocaust.
GFY hard and often Hardin you Hew-hating scumbag
I asked ChatGTP
“…around 88% of U.S. public school teachers are NEA members”
Membership is voluntary.
This makes the handbook even more disturbing.
In the Soviet Union, Party membership was voluntary. But only Party members got the bennies.
It’s not true, though. About 70% of teachers are represented by a union or other organization for salary and benefit bargaining, but there’s a big difference between that and actual union membership. When I was teaching I was considered to be part of my local teacher’s organization, but I never paid a dime in dues. The NEA has about 3 million members, give or take.
Beware AI’s “statistics.”
I ***hate*** unions, but I especially hate public sector unions. They should not be allowed.
And my opinion of public schools is no higher. Between administration and the unions the self-dealing is absolutely grotesque. Kids are doing terribly because we allow public schools and public sector teachers unions to call the tune and to hell with actually teaching anything of value.
The trouble with unions is they go against the rule of law. X and Y should not be able to gain more rights against Z by joining forces than they had individually. In particular they can’t force Z to negotiate with them.
There’s something particularly egregious about teachers’ unions. Name another trade that can collectively suck at what it does, yet still strike regularly for higher pay and get it. “We haven’t done a good job over the last three or four years, but that will change if you only pay us more.” They only get away with this is because it’s effectively a monopoly. It’s why they’re so vehemently opposed to charter schools and school choice.
Perhaps you missed the First Amendment?
Specifically, the right to assemble?
I am not a fan of any unions – public or otherwise – but I recognize that people have the right to assemble and to advance causes in which they believe.
The freedom of assembly is the right to physically gather in one place and demonstrate. The right involved here is the freedom of association, which is not explicitly listed in the first amendment, but which the courts have held is inherently implied by the freedom of speech.
Assembling does get you additional rights beyond what you had individually. In particular rights against an employer who doesn’t want to negotiate with you or who wants to employ somebody else.
You can gain such rights but that’s a matter of negotiation with the employer and would then fall under contract law, if he agrees.
It’s the latest Dhimmi-crat/Islamofascist trend — erase the Jews as the primacy focus and victims of the Holocaust, in order to aid in the propaganda narrative which casts them as alleged, modern-day oppressors/colonizers/tormentors of the allegedly poor, innocent, victimized and blameless Arab invaders from Arabia in Gaza.
These vile, stupid and evil Dhimmi-crats and their Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist brethren can stick their contrived, propaganda victimhood contrivance of the “nakba” up their rear end.
The Arab invaders from Arabia in Gaza are not victims, and, they never have been.
Kingdom of Israel/Judaea came before Roman Palaestina — the latter name having been co-opted by the Arab invaders from Arabia, in a brazen act of retroactive historical revisionism.
Don’t forget the roll the Soviet KGB had in Arafat adopting the name for his group of grifting misfits. Arafat who grifted several billion dollars off the gullible west and arab countries with too much oil money, This is the real reason why the arabs don’t really want a country, The grifting would likely stop or be seriously reduced. Sort of reminds you of urban blacks in our country doesn’t it?
I appreciate your sentiment, but I don’t think it is about money for the average Jew-hating Arab or even the leaders of Hamas. Certainly, Hamas has become corrupt and steals hundreds of millions of dollars for personal gain. But the fact remains that underlying all of it is a deeply religious view that the entire middle east must be Arab and Muslim owned and run. There is no bribe that will deter them from that view. You might be able to buy off some officials and keep things on an even keel for a while but eventually 10/7 is what they will do. The only way to stop this is utter defeat as in WWII. Arabs need to know and accept that their empire is gone forever. Other minorities such as the Druze and Kurds should be encouraged to establish their own states if they want it so that the Jewish state is not the only fact on the ground that cements the truth in place that Arab supremacy is dead forever.
It’s not just the arabs. All Muslims refuse to accept a Jewish state in the Middle East.
You are right about that. I think there are different flavors of Jew hate, however. The Arabs’ version is centered on Arab supremacy. And don’t forget that Muslims hate each other and go to war all the time and kill hundreds of thousands.
The difference between “anti-Zionism” and “antisemitism” is how they’re spelled.
Both are legal. That’s a good reason to find positive things to say about Jews, to those who are inclined to either. “We were oppressed” isn’t a positive.
There is a distinction between the two but the wokiesta leftists spewing hate 24/7/365 have definitely blurred the lines beyond any grant of good faith towards them. It’s another example of how leftists redefine and twist language to support their narrative.
The distinction is almost entirely theoretical. In practice there is no difference. In particular it is impossible to be against zionism but for a “Palestinian” state, without being an antisemite. Every legitimate reason to oppose zionism is an even stronger reason to oppose the “Palestinian” cause.
‘…founded through forced violent displacement and dispossession’ would seem to describe every inch of the Earth ever settled by humans. Somebody was there first and in 99.99999% of cases that ‘somebody’ ain’t still there b/c someone else took it away from them, which in turn was taken by another group and on and on. Now later on one of the latest groups in possession may have given it back to the descendents of the folks they took it from. Funny thing is, once handed back control, these groups sure don’t seem interested in finding the descendents of those their own group took it from to give it to them.
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But they wont erase the jews as they claim they are performing genocide against their blmplo bros
whoever is in charge of the children
are in charge of america
blmplo nea said they are in charge and there was anger directed back at them
BUT YOU /GOP KEPT FEEDING THEM
so now they are stronger than ever
its the same as book burnings
but the left used all their matches burning down cities and police stations
so they are just doing it this way until Soros buys them more matches
You can see from this latest rewrite of history that aligning themselves with Islam is not too far off. It always starts by showing how Christianity and Judaism have many things in common with Islam. But they never cover the main difference and that is the other two persue peace and Islam persues submission or death.
Not what the NEA was intending.
But Jews would take note that they were not the only targets of the Holocaust, just the most populous.
Those camps were full of ALL of the political enemies of the Reich. They came for the political wrong thinkers BEFORE they came for the Jews. Archduke Ferdinand’s son was put there for tearing up a Nazi flag. No one stopped them, so they kept going.
What made the Jews different was that they were not political enemies of the Reich. The Germans had no reason to go after the Jews. On the contrary, Germany came out of WW1 with a large pool of goodwill among Jews; had the Reich sought the Jews’ friendship and help it would have had it.
Also, while the first concentration camps were designed for all people whom the Reich wanted to lock up, the death camps were designed specifically for the Jews. There was never any plan to wipe anyone else out (except perhaps the Gypsies). The Slavs were not going to be exterminated, but merely enslaved. And there was nothing in their agenda about “genders”, or “gender identities”. Even their opposition to male (but not female) homosexuality was limited to Aryans; they didn’t care what lesser races did with each other.
Not true. The plan for Poland was 90% extermination of Pols and 10% slavery. The camps and extermination were too busy with the Jews to exterminate the Pols until later.
Those Ukrainians working for the Nazi’s murdered plenty of Pols at those camps.
Source: The Counterfeit Countess
Hitler encountered Jews in public-square debates in Vienna in the early 20s and they apparently beat him soundly in debates. Hitler always thought he had won and was astounded that the next day they wouldn’t admit he had won and argued the same things over again as if they had not already been settled. “I began to hate them.” (Mein Kampf)
He had an economic/political theory that Germany required true Germans and not sleazy and slippery reasoners like Jews, so Jews lost jobs except then for forced labor. The forced labor eventually required more food than was available and the final solution was developed. You eventually can’t support the food needed to feed you, as you weaken.
There were a couple flaws in the theory.
The need to conquer what Germany needed was from the theory that as Germany exported technology to the savages who grew bread and produced oil, the savages would produce their own technology eventually and Germany would have nothing they needed to trade for food and oil, and Germany would disappear. So conquering was necessary. A theory that shows originality and nobody could talk Hitler out of it.
So that accounts for conquering and for Jews.
There is a big difference between “not the only targets” and being the PRIMARY target. There were different types of camps, but the extermination camps were set up to “deal with” the Jews far more than any other group.
I think muddying the waters is precisely what the NEA was intending. And the Nazis began targeting the Jews immediately upon taking power. TheNazis tossed political opponents in camps orprisons, but that’s really not different than any other totalitarian state. The Holocaust was primarily aimed at Jews.
The Nakba is an absolute crock of shit as 750,000 Arabs weren’t forcibly removed from Israel by the Jews 🙄🙄
What made the Jews different was that they were not political enemies of the Reich.
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true–but the crucial difference was that they were innocents, noncombatants–every man, woman and child a victim of a premeditated, orchestrated and intended execution–six million of them–holocaust is an apt term but don’t believe the word has enough scope, enough breadth to describe such an atrocity
to dismiss/ignore the specifics of those events, the innocent lives lost, the horrors inflicted on a specific culture of people is just unspeakable
regards a bunch of piss-ant “teachers” in their arrogant union sinecure, screw them
What is unspoken and I think undersold by historians is that they first went after the people who would have stopped them.
While this does get nuanced because the Commies were champing at the bit to do the same unspeakable mutilation as the Nazis, the German people hated the commies more. The commies in turn also first murdered all the of the people who would have stopped them.
This is why the rounding up of all the J6 protesters really scares the piss out of me. I don’t have a solution for how the people who are most on the right side of history do not get murdered by the juggernauts of political satans. The Proud Boys is another example. There is no small amount of violence and organization someone on the right of history can bring to the table to stop such a threat. Usually people on the right side of history are not spoiling for violence and are easy to be defeated by the political satans. This to me, is why the Trump presidency 2.0 was the critical tipping point for our country. I think we were there and going over the edge. Our government was being weaponized in a way that was going to look like what Brittain or Canada is doing. Those countries might not recover IMO.