A non-Jews take on why she dislikes anti-Semitism

What is on my mind are the very kind words of a Facebook acquaintance regarding why dislikes antisemitism.

She wrote:

"The reason why I am personally interested in fighting antisemitism, despite not being Jewish and not having any relatives or close friends who are Jewish, is not based only on guilt for what was done to them, but mostly on gratefulness for what they have brought to humanity over the centuries.
Also, Israel appeals to my sense of justice. You're right that the quality of this community should be showcased more."

My reply to her was;

"I personally thank you for your kind words Julie. Most of "us" have tried to live "normal lives" and to contribute to mankind.

Two of the most unselfish and generous contributions to ALL mankind were by a very distant relative on my Mommas side -(Oy big Sigh my Momma would kvell about) – Albert Bruce Sabin who developed the Oral vaccination that helped eradicate Polio....and I must also mention Dr Jonas Salk who discovered the Polio vaccine."
Can you grasp how this overly generous contribution to mankind has saved the lives of millions was literally donated to mankind for free and out no financial gain by the two researchers. How much would it have added to the cost had they applied patents to their discoveries for personal financial gain?
This LITERALLY flies in the face of the antisemitic canard of the "money hungry Jew".

I continued:

It has been a "Jewish thing" -and now an Israeli Jewish "Thing" to create, invent and research things to make the world a better place for all. To me, and in reply to my friend Ryan, when asshats belittle the Holocaust my mind's eye goes to the faces of those children who perished in such horrific manners. Those beautiful intelligent human beings who may have been child prodigies who would have created, researched and made other discoveries that or could or would have benefited mankind.

It truly saddens me that many of today's secular American young Jewish people are so brainwashed with such bitter hatred of their own people do not realize nor comprehend the real truth of the pain of their estrangement.

In many cases I cannot blame them for these young millennials have NEVER been taught the truth. They are hapless victims in the face of the omnipresent anti-Israel pro-Palestinian lies and revisionist history. It is reprehensible that many of todays "educators" themselves are the products of the anti-American distortion of history that has been incorporated into the American educational curriculum as was recently attempted in California.

The rebirth and recreation of our homeland that we "Baby Boomers" witnessed is lost on the young Jewish millennials today who have been brainwashed by falestinian dezinformatsiya due to the totally secular Judaism that our parents raised us in.

In a Freudian way it was THEIR response to the post WWII-"Gentlemen's Agreement" and anti-Semitism that prevented many their opportunity to achieve and climb the social ladder. Many of our parents' generation, and the interim generation, married "outside the faith" and attempted to hide and assimilate -and there are many famous examples of this. Because many Jews who had immigrated to the west during the last two decades of the 19th century had been active communists and socialist -as Senator Bernie Sanders parents. They feared the response of being labeled "unloyal" as was witnessed during the hearings carried out by Senator Joseph McCarthy and the case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.

Many Jews in America witnessed the Holocaust and blamed the hatred on Zionism but they ignore the fact that their predecessors had on the whole been unreceptive to the challenges of hard pioneering life in Eretz Yisrael of the Ottoman Jewish Empire and had sought refuge in Communism and Socialism as a means of improvement in Russia and many had sought refuge and monetary gain to afford the transfer of relatives abroad to the West- primarily England, the USA, Canada and Argentina.

It was a "thing" that a member of a "Shtetl" would leave for abroad and once situated would send for a wife and /or sibling to come to escape the brutality of life in Czarist Russia. It was these Jews who created the Labor Unions to elevate the life of the workers individuals like Samuel Gompers who helped found the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions in 1881.

With all these developments I see my own Sabra born children and now grandchildren who are concerned about living normal lives under the constant threat of extinction and immediate death from Iran and its proxies of Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza and Judaea and Shomron.

Just as in World War II with the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust once more the world is silent. And many revisionist reconstructionist secular Jews, in America have rushed to hide in their anti-Israel, anti-Zionism pro-Palestinian hatred.
THIS makes me livid with anger!
Oh yes you can complain but if you don't like the government we have come here and live with us and vote to change it! Don't pack it in and run away. As in any relationship if you love your partner running away is NO solution. Quiting is for losers. You do not run off. You stay and fight to try to correct the issue.

Since the early 1970's the world has been blinded and bamboozled by the Palestinians and their hate filled proxies for way too long. The Palestinian's negation of Israel media campaign uses the super-secret KGB discipline responsible for disseminating information, reports and documents fabricated around a kernel of truth, but unattributable to the them know as the “science” of dezinformatsiya. This form of Palestinian dezinformatsiya propaganda was taught to Yasser Arafat who was a surrogate of the Soviet KGB according to Lt. Gen. (ret.) Ion Mihai Pacepa a former three-star general in the Securitate, the secret police of Communist Romania, who defected to the United States in July 1978 from his book , “Red Horizons,” published in 1987.

Dr. Carl Sagan once said: "One of the saddest lessons of history is this: IF we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle.
We're no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It's simply too painful to acknowledge even to ourselves, that we have been taken.
Once you give a Charlatan power over  you you almost never get it back."

As per the super-secret KGB discipline called dezinformatsiya, they have blinded the world and manipulated the world media with historical revisionism, fabrications and lies to obscure the real solution for peace that has been there for years -The actual absorption and resettlement of the Arab refugees in the lands they ran to and the erasure of the "Right of Return" -which is based also on lies. One cannot return to a place that was NOT theirs to begin with!! Though they march and demonstrate with the "fabled key" to "homes" -many were mere sharecroppers who had no ownership papers to the land or the homes - "Taboo". And as refugees in a conflict, as has happen throughout the world, enemy populations who participated in the conflict are not guaranteed a return.

As for Judaea and Shomron it is OUR indigenous Homeland and belongs to us.

Any Arab who cannot live in a Jewish majority country and cannot accept it is free to sale what they have and to leave -something that was denied US the Jewish people in the European mass genocide and in the expulsion of 900,000 Jews of Arab lands.

THIS, this is THE issue. We only wish to live in peace but we will always stand in guard because we are moralistic and the world has proven itself NOT to be moralistic.

Such is our fate....but we continue to live Am Yisrael Chai.

Possible Tour Scenarios of Tlaib-Omar

It takes an extraordinary amount of sheer Chutzpah (Nerve) and self-righteousness, from the assimilated brainwashed and bamboozled Diaspora Jews -specifically the JINO anti-Zionists of #IFNOTNOW, the New Israel Fun, JVP and JStreet, who have for over four decades swallowed the sheer overabundance of falestinian dezinformatsiya, to level any form of criticism at Israel.

The absurd confidence of un-self-awareness in a person to presume that he or she is more intelligent and better informed than the men and women running the Israeli security establishment is par for the course in their show of ignorance.

This un-self-awareness of course is further complicated by the geographic location of most of the critics and presumers of the Israeli government policies, whether they reside in; suburban North America and Canada, England, Australia, Central Berlin, Western Samoa, etc.

This un-self-awareness of course is further complicated by their particular stance or their POV of the Jewish State.
The comments on Twitter:
"What a mistake!"
"What a horror!"
They blurt out in childish statements of fear as they wring their hands and quiver in fear and hatred of the right wing "Zionist Regime" of Bibi and the "Settlers" in upsetting their existence in the Diaspora!
Yet never, thats right N*E*V*E*R! has it been mentioned that some 50% of the citizens of Israel have voted in D*E*M*O*C*R*A*T*I*C elections against the "Rightwing" Likud government?

This sheer utter hypocricsy is exhibited in the cold hard fact that NARY A WORD has been spoken of how the Palestinians have negated ALL previous peace proposals by NON Likud "Leftist" governments that made expansive concessions!!

To them, the "assimilationist JINOs" to have had the Israel government bar these overally vocal detractors of the Jewish state (even with the explicit support of the US government) from entering the country was to say the least too upsetting!!

They imagine that THEY are more aware of the certainty of not only the "PR damage" to Israel to which Netanyahu and his "yes men" are blind, but how it will affect their standing among the "Goyim".

These assimilated diaspora Jews themselves seem to be, not only un-self-aware, but also utterly unaware of the obvious risks inherent in letting these two haters in.
They are conviently blind to the previous statements on Twitter and actions of Tlaib and Omar.
They are in utter denial that Tlaib and Omar wanted to get to "Palestine" with a clear malign agenda in mind.

Did any one think to ask WHY? or GOD FORBID mention WHY? they deliberately choose to travel separately from the pro-Israel Democratic delegation that preceded them?

It is quite evidently clear that by the published itenary, seen here on the left,that they had intentions and plans to score several propaganda coups against the Jewish state, and they had the Chutzpah (Nerve) and the ground support to carry them out in in conjunction with Israel's self-destructive extreme left wing groups and Hanan Ashrawi's MIFTAH group.

Here are a few, not merely possible, but likely scenarios that readily come to mind:

Scenario "Alef" (First):

Tlaib and Omar arrive at an Arab village and join a mob of thousands of Arabs to the Israeli checkpoint nearby, where the mob starts pressing and menacing IDF soldiers. As is done on a weekly basis at flash points chosen by the Abbas Cronies in Judaea and Shomron. Young teenagers throw stones or hurdle stones with sling shots. Suddenly a rioter on cue from the Hamas or PLO higher command throws a Molotov cocktail, or hurdles a makeshift pipe bomb escalating the violence.

An IDF soldier is is hurt or killed and deadly force is now applied against those who attack the  Border Patrol and IDF security forces.
In the now deadly exchange civilians(read cannon fodder) would be caught among the rioters,(As happens weekly on the Gaza Border) There is a possibly that the terror supporting Congresswomen would be injured.
And of course dozens of pro palestinian "stringers" paparazzi cameramen would be readily on hand to catch the act. They of course would be scrutinized by their Hamas PLO handlers before releasing only "THOSE" photos that support and adhere to the favored defamation of Israel narrative.

Scenario "Bet" (Second):

Tlaib and Omar ignore the Israeli government's approved itinerary and defy their *COGAT minders to visit an area explicitly forbidden to them.
An attempt is made to stop them.
People are jostled, fall, and are hurt in the melee - including the terror-supporting Congresswomen.

There are Pulitzer prize winning paparazzi photos of the event-taken by pro palestinian "stringers" and the articles are written from the slanted pro palestinian "stringers" journalists and printed in front page news all over the world.
(*The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories is a unit in the Israeli Ministry of Defense that engages in coordinating civilian issues between the Government of Israel, the Israel Defense Forces, international organizations, diplomats, and the Palestinian Authority)

Scenario "Gimmel" (Third):

Tlaib and Omar arrive at the Temple Mount in a pre-approved visit.
They are followed by a mob of *Sheikh Ra'ed Salah financed banshee supporters,(*the leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel" whose women harass and scream at all Jewish Visitors.

Suddenly as happens almost every week these "supporters" begin provoking the Israeli Police -Border Patrol Forces controlling the entrances.

Maybe a youth or two of the hate filled brainwashed Palestinian's will rush the Israeli guards-on cue from their controllers, like the other day with butcher knives from within the Temple Mound, slashing and stabbing the unsuspecting young Border Policemen or Women.
Shots are fired the terrorist murderers are "neutralized" a riot ensues in which either Tlaib or Omar get injured. The injuries don't need to be severe: just a bruised knee, or a light concussion. Even disheveled hair will do. Or the Congresswomen are not injured themselves, but they rush to help those who have fallen to the ground (which is a real easy thing to do).
It's all very dramatic and it's all on film. Israel will try to explain who started the trouble, and the world will laugh as usual and call it an Apartheid state.

Scenario "Dalet" Fourth:

Best case scenario. All goes as planned.
No riots.
No scuffles.
No injuries.
No deaths.
There are only pictures of Tlaib hugging her grandmother, embracing her distant cousins, tears filling her eyes and theirs.
There are photos of Omar praying at the Temple Mount with a throng of adoring Muslim women, raising her hands to the sky in supplication against the Zionist occupier, and shedding tears of Muslim solidarity which will be seen by every one of the 1.2 billion Muslims from Jakarta to Detroit.

We must remember that violence is a preferred, as can be seen on a weekly basis but not a necessary, condition for Pallywood productions.
You see we the Jewish citizens of "Left" and "Right" have sustained in the past two weeks:

• multiple rocket attacks into civilian cities in the past 72 hours
• two thwarted cross-border terror incursion from Gaza;
• a critical-injury terror ramming attack against a brother and sister returning home for Shabbes a day ago in Gush Etzion
• a lethal abduction and murder of a pre-army kid a week ago in the same area;
• a stabbing and riots on the Temple Mount last week,
• The weekly "March of Return" on the border with Gaza
• and of course the daily bellicose murderous warnings of annihilation from Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas throughout.

I fully supported US Ambassador Ron Dermer's decision to allow the two terror-supporting Congresswomen into Israel, based on the close ties between the US and Israel.
It is my default position to support the democratically elected government of Israel, and of course I assumed that the security establishment had evaluated the risks and benefits carefully.

I was especially proud of Israeli Interior Minister Aryeh De'eri's willingness to allow US Rep Rhasid Talib in to visit her 90 year old "sity" as she requested in her letter.....
 However Talib who secretly wished to visit her grandmother was too ashamed of the absolute rebuttals of her "humanitarian request" by her followers that she switched back to her cynical hate

In conclusion, if you think for an instant that I am not sufficiently broad-minded and morally fit enough for American Jewry's noble standards to want to allow openly sick virulent Jew-hating US officials who avidly support the negation of Israel and the extermination -expulsion of all Jews entrance to MY country then "tuff shit"!
If I have upset your little kumbaya group from your being able to kiss up to those who wish to erase MY homeland and sliver of land I call my home, well as my Bubbe would say; "tush mir tuckas!"

* cudoos to Abe Haak and Dave Bender for the original format

The Liar Queen of falestine and MIFTAH

What is on my mind is all the news media talk about the cancellation and then the cynical request by US Rep Rhashid Talib for a "humanitarian visit" that she used to defame Israel.

I am writing this so you may share the knowledge with others. Just WHO is this group that funded the heinous "trip / visit" of US Reps Ilahan Omar and Rashid Talib?
MIFTAH is a Palestinian, non-governmental organization (NGO), established in Jerusalem in December 1998. Its Secretary-General is the long-time PLO spokesperson Hanan Ashrawi.
According to its mission statement MIFTAH's main goal is:

“to engage local and international public opinion” in support of “the Palestinian cause by disseminating the Palestinian narrative and discourse …”. 

In short, Miftah is clearly a propaganda organization that has frequently published numerous accusations to bash the Jewish State of Israeli with “cultural genocide,” “war crimes,” and “apartheid”, through posts in English and Arabic on their web site. MIFTAH also promotes anti-Israeli BDS (boycotts, divestment, and sanctions) campaigns to defame Israel as well as to circulate articles glorifying terrorism.
"An example of this "Glorification" was in a piece by Johorah Baker;who has been identified as the group’s “Director of the Media and Information Department.” Elsewhere on the Miftah website, she is listed with other titles.

Johorah Baker's article was entitled; “Palestinian Women and the Intifada” from the 5th of July 2006 that focused on Palestinian women who: “decided to join the ranks of the resistance movement."
Now who did she exactly select to glorify? She chose Wafa Idris a 28-year-old, divorced Red Crescent Volunteer who lived in the Am'ari Refugee Camp in Ramallah. Idris is glorified as “the beginning of a string of Palestinian women dedicated to sacrificing their lives for the cause.” On the 27th of January 2002 shortly before 12:30 PM Idris detonated a 22-pound bomb in the center of Jerusalem outside a shoe store on Jaffa Road that killed her and Pinchas Emanuel Tokatli, 81, of Jerusalem. Over 150 people were wounded in this suicide bombing.
Pinchas Tokatli had been returning home from a painting class via the downtown area, where he was going to buy some paints as an amateur painter, when he was murdered, according to police, Pinchas had been standing near the female suicide bomber when she blew herself up. Regretfully he died only a short distance from the very spot on Jaffa Road where, in the 1940s, British soldiers beat him up, damaging his vision.
Another falestinian "heroine" that was chosen for "Glorification" by Johorah Baker was Hanadi Jaradat.
Hanadi blew herself up on Saturday, the 4th of October 2003 in a suicide attack in the beach front Maxim restaurant in the northern Israeli city of Haifa. The bomb Jaradat wore included metal fragments packed around an explosive core, that sprayed around the restaurant, maximizing lethal effect.
According to Haifa police sources, the aftermath was gruesome, with some of the dead still sitting upright at their tables, while others, including children and babies, were slammed against the walls. Due to the force of the explosion, all that remained of Jaradat was her head. In this particularly gruesome attack 21 innocent Israeli citizens who were peacefully eating, including five members of the Almog family from Haifa and five members of the Zer-Aviv family from Kibbutz Yagur near Haifa-were among those murdered and included four children and four Christian Arab Israelis. The explosive charge she used included metal fragments packed around the explosive core, that sprayed around the restaurant, maximizing lethal effect. Her father Taisir stated: that he was proud of what his daughter had done, and that "I will accept only congratulations for what she did. This was a gift she gave me, the homeland and the Palestinian people. Therefore, I am not crying for her."

Johorah Baker also wrote an article, titled “Let Us Honor Our Own,” which to this day appears on the Miftah website. The article strongly defends the right of the Palestinian Authority to pay salaries to imprisoned terrorists and the families of dead terrorists.
In this particular article she praises the terrorist Dalal al-Mughrabi who led the infamous terrorist attack known in Israel as the Coastal Road Massacre. Dalal Mughrabi and her terrorist group slaughtered 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children and 71 were wounded. One member of the IDF was killed in the assault. The Coastal Road Massacre was the highest casualty toll in any terrorist attack in Israel’s history.

On March 9, 1978, a Palestinian terrorists from the  PLO faction of Fatah, led Dalal Mughrabi, left Lebanon on a ship headed for the Israeli coastline. They were equipped with AK-47 Kalashnikov rifles, RPGs- rocket propelled grenades, light mortars and high explosives
In their fear of being discovered by a Israeli Navy patrol early on the morning of March 11th, 1978, they transferred to two Zodiac boats and headed towards the shore. One of the Zodiacs capsized in the rough weather, and two of the terrorists drowned, but the surviving 11 carried on with their mission
The plan made by Abu Jihad was to seize a luxury hotel in Tel Aviv and take tourists and foreign ambassadors hostage in order to exchange them for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel and to "kill as many Israelis as possible".
On that fateful morning of March 11th, 1978 Gail Rubin, an American nature photographer, happened to be taking photos that early morning on the beach near Kibbutz Ma'agan Michael. Dalal Mughrabi asked Rubin where they were and immediately after she told them, Mughrabi shot her in the head. Both surviving attackers claimed that Mughrabi shot Rubin, who was a niece of United States Senator Abraham A. Ribicoff.

After the murder of Rubin the terrorist teams approached the coastal highway where they opened fire at unsuspecting passing civilian vehicles. When several vehicles were damaged and abandoned the terrorists blocked the road and hijacked a taxi, killing its occupants. They chased down a passing bus with the taxi and seized it and headed to Tel Aviv. They then hijacked another bus, moving the now 71 hostages to the first bus of the Egged national carrier carrying employees and their families who had set out on a holiday.
The bus was finally stopped by a large police roadblock set up at the Glilot Junction the main highway north of Tel Aviv near Herzliya were the traffic police had spread spiked strips on the road to puncture the bus' tires. Due to the speed at which the attack was transpiring, Israeli counter-terrorism squads had not been able to mobilize quickly enough, and the roadblock was manned by ordinary patrolmen and traffic policemen, who were lightly armed in comparison to the militants and untrained in dealing with hostage situations. A firefight quickly erupted, and police broke the bus' windows and yelled at passengers to jump. Escaping passengers were shot at by Mughrabi. According to the Israeli police, Assaf Hefetz, then head of the Israeli Police counter-terrorism unit, arrived at the scene before his unit, and stormed the bus, killing two terrorists. Hefetz sustained a shoulder injury during the battle, and was later awarded the Israeli Police Medal of Courage. The Palestinians allege that Mughrabi raised the Palestinian flag and declared the establishment of a Palestinian state, but no flag was ever found.
The MIFTAH article “Let Us Honor Our Own," from August 29, 2011 strongly defends the right of the Palestinian Authority to pay salaries to imprisoned terrorists and the families of dead terrorists and she denounces Israel for objecting to such salaries and for objecting to the PA’s policy of naming parks, streets, and other venues after Mugrabi and other terrorists.
The Palestinian Authority dedicated the public square in the city of al-Bireh to Mughrabi and it bears a plaque that depicts Mughrabi cradling a rifle against a map of Israel, the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
In addition, the Palestinian Authority launched a seminar called "Martyr Dalal Mughrabi Camp," to be held in Jericho. In May 2017, the Palestinian Authority via its organisation Women's Affairs Technical Committee (WATC) named a women's center in the town of Burqa after Mughrabi and celebrated her as a role model.
Here’s what Ms. Johara Baker wrote about Mughrabi:

“When Palestinians named a square after Dalal Al Mughrabi, a Palestinian fighter who was killed during a military operation against Israel in 1978, Israel was up in arms, claiming the Palestinians should not be allowed to name streets or squares after ‘terrorists.’

"… Countries should not interfere in the internal affairs of others. If the Palestinians want to name a street after one of their national heroes, regardless of how this person is perceived by Israel, that is their business.”

Baker’s use of quotation marks around the term “terrorist” in her article makes it clear that she rejects that description. Baker writes that the murders Mughrabi carried out were “a military operation” so,  according to MIFTAH the murderer of a US senator’s niece is “a Palestinian fighter” and a “hero.”

In addition to the praises and "Glorification" of terrorists there is the the atrociously antisemitic canard by Nawaf al-Zaru who published an article lambasting then President Obama that repeated the infamous blood libel against Jews.

Or “Passover” and “Jewish blood rituals..?!Much of the chatter and gossip about historical Jewish blood rituals in Europe are real and not fake as they claim; the Jews used the blood of Christians in the Jewish Passover …"

This disgusting antisemitic myth was the cause for many deadly pogroms against Jews in medieval Europe, resulting in the murder of thousands and the brutal elimination of entire communities. In the 19th century, accusations increased, expanding as far as Damascus, and also fueled Nazi propaganda, including in Der Sturmer.
This vulgar antisemitic libel, like the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, have been widespread in Arab and Muslim media, including in the publications of “mainstream” NGOs, such as Miftah, and is included in a deadly mix of Arab and Neo-Nazi anti-Israel propaganda and incitement.

Miftah has acquired a visibility and impact as the result of massive funding received from donors who, while publicly condemning antisemitism and incitement, turn a blind eye to its practice.

In 2011 (the latest available report), Miftah’s funder/enablers include the European Union (via the Anna Lindh Foundation), the governments of Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, and the Netherlands, Ireland, Norway, Italy, and Austria, as well as two official German political foundations (the Heinrich Boell and the Konrad Adenauer Stiftung), and the UK branch of Oxfam (itself a recipient of state funding). As well as, the US-based taxpayer supported International Republican Institute,which provided money between 2007 and 2012.
Surely, European and American government officials who approved funding this and other such NGOs should have considered the highly antisemitic much less virulent anti-Israel / Zionism hatred expressed by the web site and their representatives.
Similarly, the members of parliaments; who approved the budgets in most cases, without access to any of the details, (which EU and other officials have labeled top secret), and the journalists, who showed no interest in the virulent hatred and its consequences, share in this moral failure.

Funders, particularly those who use the money provided by taxpayers, are also enablers, and are thereby accountable for all of the activities, including antisemitism, of the organizations in which they invest. The massive damage, that has already been done by European governments, enablers and US NGO groups as a result irresponsible support for Miftah and its counterparts, is immeasurable, and every additional grant does further harm and strengthens the abysmal hatred.

The hidden agenda in a "proposed" new ethnic studies curriculum in California

This was originally a post of mine of Facebook from Augusy 11th, 2019 which because of its imprtance and length I decided to turn into a Blog entry.

What is on my mind today is the discussion regarding California’s proposed new ethnic studies curriculum.

As an educator of more than 30 years’ experience I understand that any ethnic studies courses will not have any chance of succeeding if they don’t stem from a strong curriculum that challenges students to read, listen, gather facts, analyze those facts and think critically about the controversial issues that will naturally arise. I totally agree that as an educator one should imbue students with an understanding of their own history and that of others because history has for too long been told by the winners, who have often left out the unsavory and sometimes tragic aspects of the story.

Regarding the source of those who proposed this "new ethnic studies curriculum" in California I would insist that the teachers who will teach this "New curriculum" be pre-screened for their personal bias!

Furthermore, as a senior teacher, I would strictly supervise those teachers in my responsibility to make them aware of their actions and to NOT allow personal prejudice affect there prodigies! Education is just that to make students aware and to open their minds to the facts and not to be brainwashed by scrupulous individuals with an agenda.

I have absolutely no objection to any properly researched educational course that broadens students’ thinking about; race, gender, sexuality, history and power by educators trained in the material.

From past experience with "proposed ethnic studies curriculum", many times they felt like an exercise in brainwashing to enforce groupthink. If not monitored properly they can be cynically designed to proselytize and inculcate more than to inform and to open minds without critical thinking. Thereby, only offering one side and one side only -without debate or criticism.

There is no mention in this new propose California ethnic studies curriculum regarding those students who might wish to disagree.

In the "new" ethnic studies curriculum there’s a "suggested list" of social movements that students might research — that feels awfully one-sided. According to the authors of the "new ethnic studies curriculum" there’s nothing wrong with students studying the Black Panther Party or the Third World Liberation Front or the Occupy Movement or the Palestinian-led BDS movement (?!!)

Not many educated teachers are aware of the true facts that these reactionary movements were founded by the KGB in the early 1960's during the "Cold War" to destabilize the American society from within? (I refer you to the mention of this by Ion Mihai Pacepa, former acting chief of Communist Romania’s espionage the highest-ranking intelligence officer ever to have defected from the former Soviet bloc, in his book "Red Horizons" (1987) and "Looming Disaster” by Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa and Prof. Ronald Rychlak (2016).)

How many know that the Workers World Party (WWP), read Antifa - was created by the KGB in 1957 with the initial task of helping the Kremlin create a favorable impression of the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary among the trade unions and “colored” population of the United States.

How many know that the WWP presented itself as a “national Marxist-Leninist party promoting socialism, supporting working class struggles and lesbian/gay/bi/trans liberation, organizing protests, and denouncing racism and sexism.” - Does THIS sound similar?

And what about the infamous Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement, which had Marxist roots and had been promoted by the international communist movement?

Iran’s Ayatollah predicted that Occupy Wall Street (OWS) would “bring down the capitalist system.” The Communist Party USA held a national teleconference to endorse the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement. “The bourgeoisie won’t go without violent means,” a CPUSA speaker announced. “Long live the Revolution!” The OWS movement has openly advocated for the abolition of “capitalist America.” 

The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, is a tool used by communists for their own benefit. Many observers have noted “Revcom.us” on pre-printed signs at BLM events. Revcom stands for the Revolutionary Communist Party. Its web page purports to support the Black Lives Matter movement.

And you wish to have naive young minds being fed this by these brainwashed and duped teachers who have no idea of the background of the super-secret KGB discipline known as the “science” of dezinformatsiya!

I ask what happened to the study of a range of ideas, reflecting a variety of ideologies and perspectives, and having students take sides, dispute and debate those ideas, honing their research and thinking in the process, and ultimately deciding for themselves?

This "new" California curriculum feels like it is more about imposing predigested political views on students rather than about widening their perspectives.

The "new" model curriculum "compares" capitalism with white supremacy? Wait? Have there NOT been many very many successful Afro-America entrepreneurs?

In historical reference since the founding of the American republic, it adopted the laissez-faire capitalism which has allowed for all Americans to achieve better lives then their predecessors in "the old world". Capitalism despite its flaws and detractors has led to better lives. As can be seen in Venezuela, socialism is a flop and in the old Soviet Union so was Communism so why the intensive hatred of a system that is meant to improve the lives of those who work? There is no "Utopia", at least not in this stage of the primitivity and barbarianism exhibited by certain members of humanity.

The "new" model curriculum addresses "racism" as a “form of power and oppression.” Historically yes, in many ways it is, and that is the exact basis of WHY it should be debated and discussed openly!

As to the authors of the "new" ethnic studies curriculum to cynically assert that BDS - specifically the Palestinian motivated BDS pointed at Israel- "IS" a "social movement whose aim is to achieve freedom through equal rights and justice” is a blatant lie.

The current Palestinian motivated BDS movement is NOT about "freedom through equal rights and justice" it is a movement designed to negate the sovereignty and existence of the Jewish State without peace negotiations.

The cynical insertion of this equivalency is blatant brainwashing and poisoning of young minds, The Palestinian BDS movement is seen by Congress and by many countries in the world as anything but a "social movement" it is seen as an attack towards the legitimacy  of one country whose backers are associated with US designated FTO (Foreign Terrorist Organizations)

The "New ethnic studies curriculum is in dire need of an overhaul.

The final curriculum should emphasize the deep, disturbing and complex facts of racial and ethnic history, respecting differences of opinion, and encouraging open discussion on an often difficult subject but above ALL else it should teach the students to research and learn the real facts and truth.

The curriculum is anti-Israel, neglects to include Jews as an ethnic minority, and promotes aggression against Israel.