Officials provided San Francisco Unified School District teachers with educational resources to lead classroom discussions about “war, terrorism, colonization, and the search for peace,” according to documents obtained by National Review.
The news outlet reported that one of the resources provided for teachers “promotes multiple anti-Zionist articles and views, including an article published by Jerome Slater on the Middle East Policy Council.”
“In the article,” the report continues, “Slater blames Israel for Hamas violence and speculates that failed Palestinian resistance efforts have made Palestinian terrorism a last resort.”
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Officials provided San Francisco Unified School District teachers with educational resources to lead classroom discussions about “war, terrorism, colonization, and the search for peace,” according to documents obtained by National Review. (AP Photo/iStock)
“While all terrorism is morally wrong, it is still possible and perhaps necessary to make some distinctions,” the article reads. “There may be degrees of moral evil; we commonly make such distinctions and consider extenuating circumstances, especially between moral evils committed in pursuit of just causes and the double moral evil of injustices committed for unjust causes… For various reasons, Israeli terrorism “has been morally worse than that of the Palestinians.”
National Review gave examples of other educational materials provided to San Francisco Unified School District teachers and uncovered by Parents Defending Education, including materials that ask teachers to consider how they can “educate with the hope of a truly just and lasting peace in Israel-Palestine” and ask students “how has the decades-long conflict between Israel and Palestine taken shape over time until this current conflagration?”
Another teaching resource was a video titled “Challenging anti-Semitism from a framework of collective liberation.”
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Local students in the district made headlines when they went on strike in “support of Palestine” in October, according to the San Francisco Examiner. The students also had the support of teachers and Hillary Ronen, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. (Stephen Yang for Fox News Digital)
“The need for educational resources on anti-Semitism within a pedagogical framework of collective liberation is particularly important at this time, as increasing white nationalist violence targets many of our communities, including Jews, Muslims, Blacks, immigrant communities, people trans and queer, among others, and how false accusations of anti-Semitism are directed at those seeking Palestinian justice,” according to the video's description on YouTube.
Local students in the district made headlines when they went on strike in “support of Palestine” in October, according to the San Francisco Examiner. The students also had the support of teachers and Hillary Ronen, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
“My father always told me that Israelis and Palestinians are cousins,” Ronan said at the press conference, according to the article. “We must stop seeing each other as less than human, and our leaders must stop dehumanizing us.”
The San Francisco Unified School District did not respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.
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