"Jews Are 'Privileged Whites"': What California Will Be Teaching Our Kids

We have been reporting on the bill passed by the California legislature, which would mandate the teaching of “Critical Ethnic Studies” to our youth. This insidious bill, now in the form of AB 331, would mandate that students in California be indoctrinated with the idea that certain ethnic groups are victims of systemic racism in the US. In addition, while doing the bidding of the pro-Palestinian lobby, students would be taught how Israel (Jews) are “oppressing” Palestinians. Not only is that a debatable point, but the past couple of decades have shown that this pro-Palestinian/anti-Israel drive on America’s university campuses has led to a dramatic increase in campus anti-Semitism against Jewish students.

My friend and colleague, Tammi Rossman- Benjamin of the Amcha Initiative, has written an op-ed the (Los Angeles) Jewish Journal that I am cross-posting.

“According to this theory, Jews are perceived as “white” and “privileged,” squarely on the oppressor side of the race-class divide. This negative perception of Jews is apparent in a unit in the curriculum’s appendix on “Irish and Jewish Americans: Redefining White and American,” the only lesson to even touch on the Jewish-American experience. The unit requires all students to write a paper “detailing certain events in American history that have led to Jewish and Irish Americans gaining racial privilege” and asks them to “think critically about why and who is allowing this evolution in white identity.” At a time when anti-Jewish sentiment is on the rise, asking students to view Jews as “white” and “racially privileged” while implying that such “privilege” is the result of some conspiracy, reeks of anti-Semitism, and is tantamount to putting an even larger target on the back of Jewish students.”

Fousesquawk comment: First of all, students in California do not require a biased education relative to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict half a world away-especially when this propaganda serves to increase anti-Semitic feelings against our Jewish students. Governor Gavin Newsom and the Democrats who control California in Sacramento are fully aware of the above problem, yet they push ahead with this radical leftist agenda that only increases hatred against Jews. It is sickening, and it is wrong. All decent Californians should reject this bill.