A group of radical New York City teachers is planning a “Teach-In for Palestine” on Martin Luther King Jr. Day for students as young as 6.
The event, the first in a six-part series hosted by NYC Educators for Palestine, is advertised to students aged 6-18 — promising food and “age-conscious lessons . . . delivered by trained educators and mental health professionals.”
The chosen start date of Jan. 19 is ironic, given that MLK was a staunch supporter of the Jewish state.
The instructors will “facilitate a program in which students begin to grapple with the history, meaning and context of zionism,” the event’s online sign-up reads, with “Zionism” deliberately not capitalized.
The group has not yet revealed a location for the “Teach In,” which was first flagged by the North American Values Institute, but similar events in the past have been held at The People’s Forum or Brooklyn Museum, a source told The Post.
“These teach-Ins are just an attempt to indoctrinate young people into Jew hate. They wine and dine them with free pizza and then they give them literature on blood libels and supporting Hamas,” NYC Public School Alliance President Karen Feldman told The Post.
“What’s really concerning is that there’s educators in New York City that are promoting curriculum that is antisemitic that could lead to hatred of their Jewish students. How can anyone feel safe when children as young as 6 are being indoctrinated?” United Jewish Teachers President Moshe Spern told The Post.
Socialist Mayor Mamdani, who is opposed to the Jewish state, promoted a protest organized by the group on his personal Instagram in December 2023.
The radical teachers’ group has previously organized school walkouts to protest Israel. In May, some 350 students gathered outside the DOE headquarters to rally for a cease-fire in Gaza.
The group’s mission statement has called for students to be “protected from . . . actions or statements support the continued occupation of Palestine.”
The statement bashed the Jewish state as “settler colonialism that has called for the violent dispossession of Palestinians from their homelands.”
The group also says “We support the internationally recognized right of all occupied peoples to resist,” seemingly giving a pass to Hamas terrorists who killed 1,200 Israelis on Oct. 7, 2023.
Two weeks before his assassination in 1968, Dr. King told a rabbinical assembly, “Peace for Israel means security, and we must stand with all our might to protect its right to exist. . . . I see Israel as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world, and a marvelous example of what can be done, how desert land can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy.”
A Department of Education official told The Post the teach-in is not a sanctioned event and is not permitted to be held on school grounds. The agency is planning to send emails next week to school principals reminding them that they must remain politically neutral, the rep told The Post.
NYC Educators for Palestine is closely aligned with the United Federation of Teachers‘ far-left Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE).
“These teachers misuse their credentials and the public trust placed in their positions to cloak their activism in the guise of education,” NAVI Director of Research Mika Hackner said.
The New York City Educators for Palestine and the UFT did not respond to requests for comment.
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