Honest History, a children’s educational magazine, claims it wants to provide kids with accurate and unbiased stories of the past so they can be better citizens in the future. However, their issue on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict suggests that they are either failing in this mission, or worse are being deliberately misleading.

Across the United States, many states require instruction on genocide, with the expectation that these lessons present accurate, balanced, and objective analysis. In practice, however, particularly since the October 7, 2023 Hamas terrorist attacks, some instructional materials have introduced highly contested claims, including allegations that Israel is committing genocide. Education Analyst Ari Brown examines one example of a lesson promoting the genocide libel against Israel.

CAMERA – The K-12 Program released part two of its critique of Rethinking Schools’ latest magazine for teachers Don’t Stop Thinking About Gaza, focusing on its use of disinformation to stoke anger at Israel and promotion of teacher activism.

CAMERA – The K-12 Program released part one of a two-part series critiquing Rethinking Schools’ latest magazine for teachers titled Don’t Stop Teaching About Gaza, focusing on its appropriation of Jewish identity.

CAMERA – A summary of Senior Education Analyst Jess Sadick’s exposé on the Zinn Education Project

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 – 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 has published an updated module. 

Star Tribune – If you’re worried about the trends in labeling the existence of Israel as “settler colonialism,” the Minnesota Department of Education’s new standards will fuel your unease.

CAMERA – CAMERA has just published its investigation of the Choices Program’s curriculum pertaining to Zionism, Israel and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Replete with historical revisionism and anti-Zionist tropes, it whitewashes Palestinian aggression and terrorism, erases Hamas’ stated goals and genocidal intent and portrays the existence of the Jewish state as illegitimate. Such a curriculum can only fuel the growing antisemitism in U.S. classrooms.