Teach the Holocaust -- without mentioning Jews -- says NEA
- Joanne Jacobs
- Aug 11
- 2 min read
Remember the Holocaust, but forget the Jews, advises the nation's largest teachers' union. The National Education Association's 2025 handbook calls for "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" on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, reports Alana Goodman in the Washington Free-Beacon, The proclamation is remarkably Judenrein, as the Nazis would say.
The handbook calls for educating students about the Palestinian "Nakba," 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."
"On the same page, the NEA outlines as another priority the task of teaching its members that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism," writes Goodman.
Hitler's "No. 1 target was Jews," said Howard Libit of the Baltimore Jewish Council, reports Jonathan M. Pitts in the Baltimore Sun. It was known as "the final solution to the Jewish question."
“Should the NEA mention that the Nazis killed many more people in addition to Jews? Of course,” Libit said. But it’s appalling to see that [the NEA] would be pushing a Holocaust education concept that doesn’t mention Jewish victims."
At the July meeting, NEA delegates passed a resolution to boycott the Anti-Defamation League's Holocaust education materials. Union leaders did not approve the boycott.
Why is the NEA so eager to minimize Jewish suffering? I think it's a byproduct of the competition for victimhood points. Those who think everything is a question of oppressed vs. oppressor think Jews get too many points for the Holocaust. (And that's without points for the Inquisition and the pogroms and all the other persecution they know nothing about.) So they're trying to give the Holocaust the "all lives matter" treatment.
I was born a few years after the concentration camps were liberated. I went to school with kids whose grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins died in those camps. I'd rather see the genocide taught as part of World War II history than as a special unit that can be highjacked by the political fads of the moment or universalized into irrelevance.
"In the total absence of any education about Jews alive today, teaching about the Holocaust might even be making anti-Semitism worse," writes Dara Horn in The Atlantic. The only thing students learn about Jews is that they're hated. Some think they must have deserved it.
"I was born a few years after the concentration camps were liberated."
It is more appropriate to call them death camps or extermination camps, as that clearly defines the purpose of them. Concentration camps could be found along the 395.
It's all part of the woke/"progressive" idea that everything in this world is a zero-sum game, in which one player's gain is exactly balanced by another player's loss, and the total "sum" of outcomes must remain constant—so if one player wins $10, another must lose $10, or in our case, in order for the Plastelinians to have a Nakba and "Genocide" the Jews must give up their Holocaust (already no one even knows we had our own "Nakba" with the ethnic cleansing of Jews from all Arab-Muslim countries)
I have often suspected the leadership of the NEA is composed of individuals with sub 70 IQ's but this pretty much confirms it
I think you're too kind. They're antisemites.
Not covering the Shoah robs their students of the chance to understand the history of the modern Middle East. It's a purposeful intellectual crippling of the rising generation,
Not surprising in a group that campaigned fiercely to mask children and keep schools closed.
I'm willing to bet that the NEA is also reducing/neglecting the mention of another group picked out for special treatment. Catholic priests. The book "And Who will Kill you" by Bedrich Hoffmann is about Catholic priests in concentration camps, and is a rough read.