(JEWISH GROUP) California school board members accused of antisemitism during contentious meeting
The Anti-Defamation League has called on a local California school board to apologize after two of its members attacked the Jewish community in comments at a meeting last week.
The controversy is the latest front in the yearslong battle over ethnic studies classes at California schools. At the meeting on Wednesday, the Pajaro Valley Unified School District board unanimously approved an ethnic studies teacher training contract with an organization whose leader has ties to anti-Zionist activists.
The board previously let a contract with the organization, Community Responsive Education, lapse over antisemitism concerns but faced pushback from local students, educators and activists, as well as from the organization’s leader, who played a role in devising a draft ethnic studies curriculum for the state that many Jewish organizations denounced. Since then, the board’s composition has changed.
After Jewish activists urged the board to reject the new contract on Wednesday, worried that it would inject anti-Zionism into local ethnic studies, two school board members took aim at the Jewish community.
“I don’t see you people at protests against immigration,” said Gabriel Medina, who joined the board earlier this year and has since voiced support for the Palestinians and criticism of Israel in meetings. He then referred to Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the man wrongly deported to El Salvador, and to Mahmoud Khalil, the Palestinian protester arrested by ICE at Columbia University.
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