Responding to the California’s Ethnic studies curriculum on the contributions of minorities, Jewish legislators, as well as many organizations, have appealed to the state’s legislature noting the curriculum “effectively erases the American Jewish experience,” “denigrates Jews” and “singles Israel out for condemnation,” that basically promotes an open “anti-Jewish bias.”
By Marcy Oster, JTA
An ethnic studies curriculum proposed by the California Department of Education is “inaccurate and misleading” and reflects an “anti-Jewish bias,” Jewish members of the state’s legislature wrote to the head of the committee writing the curriculum.
The California Legislative Jewish Caucus says that the curriculum “effectively erases the American Jewish experience,” “omits anti-Semitism,” “denigrates Jews” and “singles Israel out for condemnation.” Continue Reading »
