Educators for Israel (JewTLA)

ZIONIST American K-12 Educators. We help resolve problems with school-based antisemitism in public, charter, and private schools. ❤️ & R/T are not endorsement

[Educators for Israel (JewTLA) @JewTLA]

Student #testimony on #antisemitism in #LAUSD (starts at about 15:00). Thank you @NickMelvoinBD4 and @ScottAtLAUSD for showing up for #Jewish kids in @LASchools. https://t.co/1JeWckfUAy

[Educators for Israel (JewTLA) @JewTLA]

🌳Wednesday, the UTLA House of Representatives voted to expel me from their meeting for fighting anti-Jew hatred. For half an hour, the union president Cecily Myart-Cruz allowed members to slander me from the floor. They equated Zionism with racism and it was quite ugly. 🌳

Half an hour.🌳

Twenty-three out of 160 representatives voted against it. Twenty-three people in a room full of hostility chose decency.🌳

So I have planted a tree in Israel for each of them.🌳

Twenty-three trees through JNF, two and a half orchards in the land of Israel. Because that’s what Jews do. We plant. We build. We restore.🌳

Go ahead and hurl your hate. We will still build, plant, grow.🌳

Israel is one of the few countries on earth with more forested land today than it had a century ago. I have stood in the hills of Judea and Samaria and seen what replanting looks like. It is holy work. JNF has been doing it since 1901, longer than most of our critics’ ideologies have existed.🌳

You cannot slander a forest into submission.🌳

If you want to turn outrage into something that grows, consider making a donation in any amount at https://t.co/1UZMnPvsKp. Plant a tree. Counter the hate with roots.🌳

🌳Am Yisrael Chai and Shabbat Shalom!🌳

[Educators for Israel (JewTLA) @JewTLA]

@UTLAnow https://t.co/mj4ddsERb7

[Educators for Israel (JewTLA) @JewTLA]

Last night, at an official UTLA House of Representatives meeting, 160 credentialed teachers — the people who teach your children — spent thirty minutes denouncing me by name, declared that Zionism is racism, and then voted to expel me. I never said a single word the entire meeting.

For two hours I sat silently as an observer, which is my right as a union member in good standing. Then someone noticed I was there. What followed was half an hour of teachers explaining how terrible I am, how Zionism is racism, and how I had personally tried to get them fired — stories I don’t recognize and that anyone who knows how schools work would find laughable.

Then they voted out the only Orthodox Jew in the room.

No charges. No process. No hearing. Just organized hostility, a vote, and a gavel.

I’ve been doing antisemitism accountability work in K-12 education for years. I file complaints. I document. I publish. I name names. Apparently my silent presence on a Zoom call is a five-alarm emergency.

I want to be clear about what happened: a union used official meeting time to conduct a public denunciation of a Jewish advocate, then expelled her for the crime of showing up and saying nothing.

I’ve been kicked out of better places.

But I’ve never been more certain the work is landing.

[Educators for Israel (JewTLA) @JewTLA]

@coopmike48 https://t.co/mj4ddsERb7

[Educators for Israel (JewTLA) @JewTLA]

Last night, at an official UTLA House of Representatives meeting, 160 credentialed teachers — the people who teach your children — spent thirty minutes denouncing me by name, declared that Zionism is racism, and then voted to expel me. I never said a single word the entire meeting.

For two hours I sat silently as an observer, which is my right as a union member in good standing. Then someone noticed I was there. What followed was half an hour of teachers explaining how terrible I am, how Zionism is racism, and how I had personally tried to get them fired — stories I don’t recognize and that anyone who knows how schools work would find laughable.

Then they voted out the only Orthodox Jew in the room.

No charges. No process. No hearing. Just organized hostility, a vote, and a gavel.

I’ve been doing antisemitism accountability work in K-12 education for years. I file complaints. I document. I publish. I name names. Apparently my silent presence on a Zoom call is a five-alarm emergency.

I want to be clear about what happened: a union used official meeting time to conduct a public denunciation of a Jewish advocate, then expelled her for the crime of showing up and saying nothing.

I’ve been kicked out of better places.

But I’ve never been more certain the work is landing.

[Mordechai Wagenheim @Mike_Wagenheim]

Scooplet: I've learned that Spanish, French, British and Canadian Jewish communities have contacted officials at the State Department to explore the possibility of their members immigrating to America under refugee or other protected status avenues.

This is due to the rise of often violent antisemitism in their home countries.

A State Department official confirmed the information. There is no indication that the department has moved forward on the requests, or what position it might hold.

Amb. Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, the State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, declined to comment directly on the information that I received.

“It is the government’s responsibility in those countries to make certain that the Jewish community has safety, security and the ability to practice their religion free from any type of harm,” he told me. “The U.S. government demands it.”

[Educators for Israel (JewTLA) @JewTLA]

@Hamoodi_Barran @MortonAKlein7 They took a vote to expel me because it seems I am unpopular with antisemites who don’t like being called out.

[Educators for Israel (JewTLA) @JewTLA]

Last night, at an official UTLA House of Representatives meeting, 160 credentialed teachers — the people who teach your children — spent thirty minutes denouncing me by name, declared that Zionism is racism, and then voted to expel me. I never said a single word the entire meeting.

For two hours I sat silently as an observer, which is my right as a union member in good standing. Then someone noticed I was there. What followed was half an hour of teachers explaining how terrible I am, how Zionism is racism, and how I had personally tried to get them fired — stories I don’t recognize and that anyone who knows how schools work would find laughable.

Then they voted out the only Orthodox Jew in the room.

No charges. No process. No hearing. Just organized hostility, a vote, and a gavel.

I’ve been doing antisemitism accountability work in K-12 education for years. I file complaints. I document. I publish. I name names. Apparently my silent presence on a Zoom call is a five-alarm emergency.

I want to be clear about what happened: a union used official meeting time to conduct a public denunciation of a Jewish advocate, then expelled her for the crime of showing up and saying nothing.

I’ve been kicked out of better places.

But I’ve never been more certain the work is landing.

[Educators for Israel (JewTLA) @JewTLA]

@ladydatadoc United Teachers Los Angeles

[Educators for Israel (JewTLA) @JewTLA]

Unions have a duty of fair representation under the National Labor Relations Act, which prohibits arbitrary, discriminatory, or bad faith conduct toward members. Expelling a member during a meeting without notice, charges, or hearing (specifically because of her Jewish identity and advocacy) could be a DFR violation.

There’s also a potential Title VI angle if any of this connects to LAUSD’s receipt of federal funds, which is my existing lane.

And California has its own laws (the Unruh Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination by business establishments, and California courts have sometimes applied it to membership organizations).

[Educators for Israel (JewTLA) @JewTLA]

@ELeibman51543 I need to think about this.

[Ayn Reagan @AynReagan]

The ostensibly Jewish District Attorney of Los Angeles County insists that it is not a hate crime to attack Jews with a baseball bat while screaming anti-Semitic death threats. Mr. Hochman should define his criteria. If that is not a hate crime then what is a hate crime?

[Kylie Ora Lobell @kylieoralobell]

Orthodox Jew Ben Forer won his race in Los Angeles tonight! Mazal Tov, Judge Forer!

[Ayn Reagan @AynReagan]

Santa Monica police chief Darrick Jacob refused to file hate crime charges after a criminal attacked a Jewish couple with a bat. While screaming anti-Semitic slurs. And urging his dog to bite the Jews. Members of The Tribe would be wise to avoid Santa Monica while Jacob is chief.

[Educators for Israel (JewTLA) @JewTLA]

@ArynneWexler @megynkelly Trees for trolls! I do this all the time!

[Sam Yebri @samyebri]

The biggest takeaway from the California elections today is that the 3 leftist candidates who bootlicked antisemitic homophobic jihadist Hasan Piker by going on his disgusting show all BOMBED, LOST and DID NOT MAKE THE RUN-OFF:
❎ Nithya Raman
❎ Tom Steyer
❎ Saikat Chakrabarti

[Educators for Israel (JewTLA) @JewTLA]

@StopAntisemites She doesn’t even know how to wear a face mask properly.

[Educators for Israel (JewTLA) @JewTLA]

@RabbiLandau @ohhitssami Yet Rabbi, the yeshivish world lives off of the outside labor of wives and mothers. How do we address this reality, when our world generates the problem?

[Educators for Israel (JewTLA) @JewTLA]

Every cowardly K-12 teacher who posts a political Palestinian flag in your classroom, what you are doing is hanging Jews in effigy. Raping Jews in effigy. Kidnapping and torturing Jews in effigy. You can remove those flags now, at the end of the year. But we already know who you are. And what you wish for.
And we are a people with a frighteningly long memory.

[Eyal Yakoby @EYakoby]

BREAKING: Masked Islamists in Montreal paraded a Jew being hanged through the streets.

Get every single one of these terrorists out of the West.

Enough of this.

[Educators for Israel (JewTLA) @JewTLA]

@LAProgressive We wish he would😁

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

More disturbing details have emerged about the shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego:

Apart from being the same mosque attended by two 9/11 hijackers, the imam and his wife openly justified the October 7 Hamas attacks and held a vigil for the “martyrs.”

It has now been revealed that the security guard who was killed also glorified Hitler and the mass murder of Jews.

The mosque itself seems to be a center of Islamic extremism.

The two suicidal perpetrators of the shooting have been identified as neo-Nazis and left a manifesto blaming Jews for everything. It’s unclear whether they were aware that the mosque shared the same anti-Zionist stance and hatred of Jews.

I think this case is a fascinating example of the left-Muslim-Nazi alliance. These people have nothing in common, but are united by their hatred of Jews and Israel. Scratch beneath the surface and they hate and kill each other. Literally.

[TheJewishAlly @TheJewishAlly]

The National Education Association, the largest teachers’ union in the United States, was hit with a federal complaint alleging that it subjected Jewish members to an antisemitic environment.

At the union’s 2025 annual gathering, for example, NEA members “shouted down Jewish participants” as they debated a resolution banning materials from the Anti-Defamation League from appearing in classrooms, creating “an atmosphere in which Jewish delegates reasonably feared retaliation and physical harm,” according to the complaint.
@FreeBeacon
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