Boston Globe – The MTA’s tax-exempt status exists to support its work on behalf of teachers’ working conditions, not to fund political campaigns or promote foreign policy positions, argues CAMERA’s Jany Finkielsztein.

CAMERA – The Zinn Education Project bills itself as a grassroots initiative promoting a more “inclusive” approach to history. However, CAMERA Education Institute’s scrutiny of sections of the curriculum exposes a pattern of radical indoctrination targeting K-12 students.

CAMERA – The content of the presentation was less about Arab culture and more about controversial issues from a one-sided perspective. The pedagogy was less about presenting new content knowledge and more about encouraging partisan student activism.

JNS – Rather than adhere to educational standards, the Massachusetts Teachers Association has pursued a one-sided approach when teaching about Israel and Hamas.

Boston Globe – “While Max Page claims that the MTA is reviewing the curricula-resources web page, there is no clear structure or system in place for how this review is being conducted, who is responsible for conducting it, and what criteria is being used,” says CAMERA’s Jany Finkielsztein, also a member of MEAA.

CAMERA – Based on documents received from a FOIA request filed by Zachor Legal that were subsequently shared with CAMERA, this report documents how anti-Israel propaganda has infiltrated classrooms in two California school districts: Dublin Unified and New Haven Unified.

CAMERA – New Visions for Public Schools normally provides high quality educational resources. Unfortunately, their lessons on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict fall short.

UPDATE: New Visions has removed these lessons and is in the process of rewriting them. 

CAMERA – CAMERA stands unreservedly behind Applefield, who is a 2024-25 CAMERA on Campus fellow. We’re proud of her article and of her ability to engage in public dialogue in a civil, fact-based manner.

CAMERA – Academic freedom is an important value that must be protected. That includes protection against those who would exploit their freedom to undermine academic integrity and the academic freedom of others from within. At Cornell University, that threat is emerging.

CAMERA – A call for book-burning at the 2024 NCTE annual convention highlights the attempt by anti-Zionist activists to control the narrative. After  failing to pressure the NCTE into cancelling CAMERA’s inclusion in the convention with defamatory claims against CEI, the same activists are  now campaigning to stigmatize the teacher’s council.

CAMERA – To correct the record, CAMERA joined with several Brown University alumni to put together a submission in opposition to divestment. The submission, delivered on August 30, identifies a total of 45 false claims made in BDC’s proposal, debunking each in turn.

The Daily Wire – The Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) is threatening to sue Republican state lawmakers who condemned its appointment of Ricardo Rosa, citing his anti-Israel and anti-American rhetoric. CAMERA’s Jany Finkielsztein told the Daily Wire that her proposal for a teacher workshop was likely rejected by the MTA due to conflicts with Rosa’s narrative.

The Daily Wire – Jany Finkielsztein, a former instructional coach for the Waltham public schools who retired last year and is a senior education analyst with CAMERA Education Institute, said Rosa’s social media posts about the United States and Israel reveal his “commitment to transforming classrooms into arenas of radicalism.”

CAMERA – The University of Minnesota is set to hire, as its new director for the Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, an individual who would serve better as a case study on the persistence of genocidal antisemitism than as credible researcher of it.

CAMERA – The Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA), the largest teachers union in Massachusetts, hosted a webinar that featured three anti-Israel activists as its main speakers and was facilitated by a former MTA president who is also an anti-Israel activist.

Minding the Campus – Just two months after the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) voted in favor of a ceasefire resolution labeling Israel’s defensive war against Hamas as “a genocidal war on the Palestinian people,” the union has once again engaged in the demonization and delegitimization of Israel.