Smash the antisemitic NEA
The National Education Association is not content with destroying the American educational system. It has now declared war on the Jews.
Benjamin Kerstein, Substack
The National Education Association, a massive organization of American teachers and educators, is guilty of many sins, among them being the near-total destruction of the American educational system.
Over the past two years, however, it has chosen an even more egregious path: It has declared war on the Jews.
This was recently proven yet again by the release of the NEA’s 2025 handbook, which seeks to distort, minimize, and appropriate the Holocaust while privileging the Palestinian narrative of the “nakba” beyond all conceivable reason.
A report in the Free Beacon revealed that the handbook engages in something very close to Holocaust denial, saying it will mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day by “recognizing more than 12 million victims of the Holocaust from different faiths, ethnicities, races, political beliefs, genders, and gender identification, abilities/disabilities, and other targeted characteristics.”
The purpose of this language is obvious: to completely divorce the Jews from the worst of all our many traumas.
First, the Jews are never even mentioned, which is obviously intentional. Then, even the implication of them is strategically buried under a laundry list of other victims of Nazi atrocities.
These victims, however, have never been included under the term “Holocaust,” which has always specifically referred to the six million Jews who were specifically targeted for extermination and systematically murdered.
Indeed, the “12 million” claim has long been a favorite of Holocaust minimizers who seek to elide the extent of Nazi antisemitism, placing the NEA firmly within a demented if venerable tradition.
It is difficult to fully convey the sheer offensiveness, arrogance, and racism inherent in this passage.
In effect, it declares that a) the Jewish victims of the Holocaust do not exist, b) other victims are more numerous and more important, and c) the NEA arrogates to itself an absolute right to define the Holocaust as it wishes to the detriment of its victims.
The French intellectual Pierre Vidal-Naquet once called Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson a “paper Eichmann” because, by erasing the Holocaust, he was effectively exterminating the victims all over again—albeit in a different way.
The NEA is guilty of no less than this. It is another “paper Eichmann,” this time masquerading behind the galling façade of “inclusion” and progressive empathy. It is guilty, in other words, of nothing less than cultural genocide.
Regarding the “nakba,” however, the NEA takes a very different path. The section on the subject is longer, filled with pathos and bathos in enormous measure, and resolutely specific and strident as to the identity of the “victim.”
“The Nakba, meaning ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic, refers to the forced, violent displacement and dispossession of at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland in 1948 during the establishment of the state of Israel,” it claims—eliding that the Palestinians were engaged in a genocidal war against Israel at the time.
It goes on: “Educating about the Nakba is essential for understanding the Palestinian diaspora narrative and experience, including the ongoing trauma of our Palestinian American students today. Teaching about the Nakba fosters critical thinking and empathy among students, promoting a deeper understanding of historical injustices and their contemporary ramifications.”
Subtly implied is something quite monstrous: The NEA is, essentially, saying that the “nakba” is more important and, indeed, worse than the Holocaust.
The Jews, in other words, committed a crime beyond that of the Nazis, and their Holocaust is to be erased in favor of the Palestinian narrative and its total negation of Israel’s right to exist and to defend itself from genocidal attack.
This is a heinous act of Holocaust inversion and, indeed, Holocaust denial.
There can be no doubt, however, that its inclusion is quite deliberate. In imposing this narrative on its members and their students, the NEA is seeking to officially declare itself a member of the neo-antisemitic alliance between radical progressives and radical Muslims that is currently wreaking havoc on the American Jewish community.
The NEA is determined to use “any means necessary” to further this cause and to indoctrinate a generation of students in its ideology.
To do so, of course, the NEA is serving an essential function: Erasing antisemitism from existence.
The handbook states: “NEA will use existing digital communication tools to educate members about the difference between anti-Zionism and antisemitism.”
The purpose of this is clear because the NEA clearly states the purpose. It asserts: “NEA will use its existing media outlets to defend educators’ and students’ academic freedom and free speech in defense of Palestine at K-12 schools, colleges, and universities.”
In other words, by defining antisemitism out of existence, the NEA will protect the neo-antisemites and their “right” to defame, incite against, assault, and indeed murder Jews and their allies.
That is, after all, precisely what the neo-antisemites are doing in the name of “anti-Zionism,” and there is no way they can continue to get away with it unless they can succeed in defining antisemitism down to the point that it effectively ceases to exist.
The NEA likely knows this, so it is declaring that it will seek to indoctrinate students to the point that the violation of the Jewish body and spirit is nothing more than “academic freedom and free speech in defense of Palestine.” The NEA will serve, in other words, as both sword and shield in the war against the Jews.
There is no chance whatsoever that the NEA will deviate from this path. Its leaders would likely rather die than do so. Given that, there is only one way forward: Smash the NEA.
Precisely how this could be done is unclear. The organization’s tentacles are bored deep into the structure of the American educational system to that system’s universal detriment. Such institutional rot is always very difficult to excise.
Nonetheless, it must be done if the Jews are to be saved from a potential generation of young people who consider the Holocaust a footnote in history and the “nakba” the worst crime against humanity ever committed.
Perhaps Jewish members of the NEA could launch a protest movement or simply abandon the organization. Pressure could be put on the organization’s ability to raise funds. Local political action might help to dislodge the organization from the educational systems it controls and degrades. Finally, federal government action over the violations of Jewish civil rights that will inevitably ensue could be taken.
What is clear is that the NEA is now a clear and present danger to the American Jewish community. If its power and influence are not greatly reduced or eliminated, that danger will only grow in intensity and violence.
No decent American citizen, especially those whose children are suffering under the ideological domination of this organization, should stand for it.
