Mobilizing Teachers against the Jews

Today, the American Federation of Teachers—the country’s second largest union for educators—begins its annual conference, where it will consider eight resolutions condemning Israel in one way or another, some of which raise accusations of apartheid, genocide, and the newly minted sin of “scholasticide.” These resolutions reflect a general strategy of the anti-Israel movement to turn every public forum into a platform for condemnation of the Jewish state, but also a more specific program of bringing anti-Israel propaganda into the school system, which has already had some success.