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Eve Barlow
November 23, 2025
Qatar's Got Talent
Essentially [Dillon] Hosier [CEO, ICANAction] is in the business of identifying who the next big thing will be. He is on the hunt for future anti-Israel, anti-America, anti-West political superstars, and he is urging pro-Israel networks to come together to mitigate these rises. If Qatar produced a reality talent contest for upcoming American insurgent politicians, Hosier would be the one spotting the winners.

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin
November 20, 2025
The Union Behind California’s Ethnic Studies Antisemitism Problem
California’s AB 715 was a well-intentioned effort to curb antisemitism in K–12 classrooms, especially ethnic studies. But the bill passed only after teachers’ unions, including the California Faculty Association (CFA) - a politically powerful union representing faculty on all 23 California State University campuses - pressed for changes that stripped key safeguards.

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin
November 10, 2025
The Elephant on Bruin Walk: UCLA Can’t Curb Campus Antisemitism While Ignoring Faculty-Led Anti-Zionism
At UCLA, faculty and departments have moved anti-Zionist activism from the margins into university life, becoming a core engine of campus antisemitism.

Karen Billing
October 27, 2025
San Dieguito District sets plan for healing in motion following antisemitic act on SDA campus
Lucia Gordon, the mother of the student victim of the antisemitism incident, was critical of the district’s response. Gordon said when the incident was brought to light last month, no one ever reached out to her son or family.

Joel Finkelstein
October 26, 2025
The ADL’s Medicine Is Causing the Disease
Frames that divide the world into the oppressors and the oppressed create 15 times more antisemites while reinforcing sectarian division and hate on both the left and the right. The cure is a return to the universalist values on which America was founded.

Will Swaim
October 3, 2025
California Teachers’ Union Ruins an Earnest Effort to Confront Antisemitism
And in so doing, has helped demonstrate why California’s schools, once among the best in the nation, are now among its worst.

Leo Place
September 19, 2025
SDA family says antisemitism incident handled improperly
According to PeerK12, the 10th-grade student flying overhead thought he was going to be taking a picture of students making a formation of a smiley face, but instead saw the swastika.
“Administrators were notified immediately by the family – but declined to report the incident, saying it would be ‘handled next year.’ And then for nearly three months, nothing happened,” PeerK12 said.
Julie Sharp
August 29, 2025
Beverly Hills Unified to adopt new flag policy after superintendent overrules Israeli flag display
The new policy aligns with the superintendent's directive, "no flags will be displayed on our campuses other than the flag of the United States of America and the flag of the State of California."

Dillon Hosier
August 12, 2025
The Mamdani Index
How to spot the next anti-Israel political star before it’s too late.

Kasia Gregorczyk
June 25, 2025
Carlsbad Unified approves budget at special meeting with board president absent
Local parents say Kathy Rallings has been controversial for how she treats other board members during meetings and her suggestion to take more than $3 million out of the district reserve funds.

Julie Gallant
June 24, 2025
Ramona Unified postpones high school ethnic studies course for 2025-26
Ramona Unified School District high school students will continue to be offered the traditional English II course only while plans to pilot an “English 2/English 2 Honors: Ethnic Perspectives in Literature” course are put on hold.

Amy Reichert
June 18, 2025
This California Family Is Fighting Back Against a Mandatory ‘White Privilege’ Curriculum
A shocking revelation from a California high school student about discriminatory material he was forced to read has sparked outrage and concern over the growing mandate of race-based curricula in public education.

Rikki Schlott
June 13, 2025
Randi Weingarten’s ‘No Kings’ push shows teachers union is prioritizing activism over education
Critics say unions taking part are undermining their members by taking an overtly partisan stance.

Carol Kocivar
June 5, 2025
Ethnic studies course is a disaster in the making in SFUSD
Course has not been formally approved by the school board

Marsha Sutton
May 26, 2025
Opinion: The California ethnic studies mandate is a train wreck
AB 101 was ill-conceived from the start: no enforceable guidelines, no state standards, no penalties for ignoring guardrails that prohibit discrimination, not even a real definition of what ethnic studies actually means.

Noah Lyons
May 12, 2025
Parents claim ideological bias in Mesa College course at La Jolla High School
The group focuses particularly on what it considers one-sided discussion of the Israel-Hamas war. Mesa College contends the content is 'protected by academic freedom.'

Combat Antisemitism Movement
May 5, 2025
CAM REVIEW | Ethnic Studies: The Dangerous Ideology Quietly Shaping US Classrooms
If you’ve ever wondered why young Americans are embracing increasingly extreme views on race, power, identity, Israel, and Jews, this webinar connects the dots with clarity, historical depth, and urgency.

Mika Hackner
April 24, 2025
The Ethnic Studies to Antisemitism Pipeline: Pajaro Valley Edition
The ideological lens of Ethnic Studies, with its obsession over systems of power and its binary moral structure, aligns all too easily with antisemitic conspiracism.

Grace Gilson
April 10, 2025
California DOE finds school’s ethnic studies curriculum discriminated against Jewish students
A California school's ethnic studies curriculum that included discussions of Israel as a "settler colonial state" was found to have discriminated against Jewish students.

Gabe Kaminsky
March 5, 2025
EXCLUSIVE: DOJ Opens Antisemitism Investigation Into the University of California System
The Department of Justice says one of the largest public university systems in the country may be discriminating ‘against employees who are or are perceived to be Jewish or Israeli.’

Kevin Mahnken
January 22, 2025
Poll of High Schoolers Shows Many Are Taught That America Is ‘Inherently Racist’
As President Trump renews his pledge to combat unpatriotic education, survey evidence suggests that controversial teachings are alive and well.

Abigail Shrier
October 31, 2024
The Kindergarten Intifada
There is a well-coordinated, national effort between teachers, activist organizations, and administrators to indoctrinate American children against Israel. A Free Press investigation.

Lindsey Burke
October 15, 2024
What are your children being taught?
Look at schools’ websites, their trainings, mission statements, textbooks, curricula, and yes, even your child’s homework assignments. Corporate America is beginning to turn away from institutional DEI. It’s time schools got back to basics, too.

Izabella Tabarovsky
July 24, 2024
Wikipedia’s Jewish Problem
The site seems to be intentionally trafficking in disinformation related to Jews, Israel, and Zionism

Francesca Block
July 17, 2024
Israel-Bashing on the Agenda for National Teachers Union
Members fear a resolution vote next week could encourage teachers to portray Israel as “a colonizing country committing genocide.”

Neetu Arnold
June 24, 2024
The Child Soldiers of Ethnic Studies
How American students are radicalized against the West

Robert Pondiscio
June 13, 2024
How Public Schools Became Ideological Boot Camps
In nearly every public school in the country, children are given curriculum materials that have no official oversight or approval.

Dillon Hosier
April 4, 2024
When anti-Israel radicals win local elections
We must mobilize to counter an insidious movement that threatens democracy itself.

Abigail Shrier
February 27, 2024
How Bad Therapy Hijacked Our Nation’s Schools
Forget the Pledge of Allegiance. Today’s teachers are more likely to start the school day with an ‘emotions check-in.’ Abigail Shrier on the rise of ‘trauma-informed’ education.

Dr. Brandy Shufutinsky
February 14, 2024
Undercover with Liberated Ethnic Studies
WITH parents, teachers, and students coming forward with information on mismanagement in their school districts, I believe it is even more important to reveal what I discovered in my almost two years inside Liberated Ethnic Studies.

Francesca Block
December 19, 2023
How U.S. Public Schools Teach Antisemitism
From pre-K lessons on ‘ethnic noses’ to lectures on Israel as an apartheid state, students are learning that Jews are the enemy.

Gary Wexler
November 18, 2023
The Inside Story of How Palestinians Took Over the World
The brilliant Palestinian plan to capture the pliable minds of American college students was laid out in front of me 25 years ago, during a very sinister business meeting in Israel.

Izabella Tabarovsky
September 19, 2023
The Cult of ‘Antizionism’
American progressive ideologues have formed a new ideology based on the negation of an all-powerful phantasm they call ‘Zionism.’ To fight them, we need to understand the origins of their beliefs in the Soviet academic propaganda apparatus.
webinars & podcasts

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peerk12 news coverage
November 23, 2025
The Ideological Erosion of College Readiness
Tamar Caspi , Sharon Ceresnie Sorkin
California’s Ethnic Studies mandate, which took hold over the past five years, coincides with a sharp decline in statewide test scores for grades 3-8 and 11 in English Language Arts and math. While activists spent years crafting curricula that demonize America, Israel, Jews, and the West, students were robbed of the opportunity to master fundamentals.
September 19, 2025
SDA family says antisemitism incident handled improperly
Leo Place
The San Dieguito Union High School District is addressing an incident from the end of the previous school year in which students allegedly made the shape of a swastika on a field at San Dieguito Academy, with reports that the school’s principal has been placed on administrative leave.
September 19, 2025
Swastika incident at SDA goes unreported; principal placed on leave
Steve Puterski
Eight students allegedly formed a human swastika at San Dieguito Academy in May. The principal is now on leave amid accusations of delayed reporting and policy violations.
May 5, 2025
Ethnic Studies: The Dangerous Ideology Quietly Shaping US Classrooms
CAM Staff Writer
If you’ve ever wondered why young Americans are embracing increasingly extreme views on race, power, identity, Israel, and Jews, this webinar connects the dots with clarity, historical depth, and urgency. Bernstein doesn’t just inform — she exposes the origin story of an educational revolution that is reshaping how the next generation thinks.
March 20, 2025
Anti-Israel ethnic studies unfunded in California - Is the fight over? | JPost Op-Ed

Tamar Caspi
"As parents, we expect our children’s education to promote truth, critical thinking, and understanding—not to serve as a breeding ground for political activism."
March 9, 2025
The Ethnic Studies Battlegrounds: Political Ideology, Teacher Unions, and a Divided Jewish Community
Nicole Bernstein
Subversion and “othering” have proven to be disturbingly effective, contributing to an increasingly fractured Jewish community. This division has made it difficult for us to unite and recognize the external threats we face.
September 14, 2024
Parents want to 'collaborate' over new ethnic studies course
Ava Kershner
“The room was divided, almost as if you had two opposing sides,” said Nicole Bernstein, a concerned parent and co-founder of PeerK12.
July 19, 2024
Anti-Israel resolutions on docket for US teachers union
Schools & High Education
The American Federation of Teachers will vote on proposals that fuel “discrimination and hatred against Jews,” critics say.
July 17, 2024
US teacher union criticized for BDS, ceasefire, campus protest resolutions
Michael Starr
The coalition of Jewish education groups condemned the resolutions for labeling Israel's war against Gazan terrorist organizations as "genocide."
July 16, 2024
AFT to vote on controversial proposals
Carl Campanile
Proposals including ending US military aid to Israel, protecting pro-Palestinian protesters
July 16, 2024
US Jewish Groups Condemn Anti-Zionist Resolutions
Dion J. Pierre
Resolutions Considered by American Federation of Teachers
July 9, 2024
Ethnic studies in K-12

Staff
Lessons learned and a roadmap for protecting the rights of Jewish students and teachers
December 15, 2023
A different perspective
Destiny Avila Ramirez
BVH student meeting marks first steps to ensuring a safe community
December 11, 2023
In San Diego, controversy surrounds an antisemitic imam and his wife
JNS Staff
Imam Taha Hassane has justified Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack, while Lallia Allali [his wife and San Diego Unified School District consultant] posted an image of a Star of David decapitating babies.
November 4, 2023
Union-Tribune Community Advisory Board member resigns due to repost on personal Facebook
Staff
Members volunteer their time and talents, and agree to adhere to guidelines, including a prohibition on hate speech or targeting of other people or communities
October 23, 2022
How a photo of Hitler in a 7th-grade classroom sparked a debate over antisemitism and school oversight

Kristen Taketa
Parents and Jewish community members say a teacher’s inclusion of the photo in a classroom display shows the need for ‘real education’ on antisemitism.
October 18, 2022
San Dieguito board talks next steps in addressing Hitler photo at Carmel Valley school
Karen Billing
District will hold community forums, staff training around antisemitism and create a new superintendent committee
October 3, 2022
Hitler 'had strong leadership qualities' says teacher, photo placed with MLK, JFK
Michael Starr
Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's photo was placed on a board next to inspirational leaders such as Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy.
December 18, 2021
BVH experiences hate speech, SUHSD responds with resolution
Carina Muniz
The anti-Semitic post created by students and directed towards IB Environmental Systems and Societies, and AP Environmental Science teacher Jennifer Ekstein is currently under investigation by BVH administrators. In Principal Roman Del Rosario’s statement addressing the hate speech at BVH, he made clear that, with support from SUHSD, BVH would not stand for hate speech. This photo was one of the two attachments in Del Rosario’s statement.
November 18, 2021
San Dieguito board passes resolutions denouncing antisemitism, discrimination
Karen Billings
On Nov. 18, the San Dieguito Union High School District passed a resolution addressing antisemitism and affirming the value of Jewish students, faculty, staff, and families.
October 28, 2021
San Diego School District Passes Resolution to Include Antisemitism in Ethnic Studies

Aaron Bandler
The San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) Board of Trustees passed a resolution on October 26 to include the teaching of antisemitism in the ethnic studies curriculum.
October 27, 2021
San Diego School District Commits to ‘Fighting Antisemitism,’ Citing Rise in Hate Crimes
Dion J. Pierre
The San Diego Unified School District (SDUSD) adopted a resolution Tuesday denouncing antisemitism and promoting education about the Holocaust, citing a rise in recent years in anti-Jewish harassment on its campuses.
October 27, 2021
SWC Commends Jewish Community Parents
Staff
Proposed Resolution Passed by San Diego Unified School District to include Anti-Semitism in its Ethnic Studies Curriculum




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