Teachers Embrace Hate

Last month, the San Francisco teachers' union publicly endorsed the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. The resolution approved by the teachers' union declared their support for the Palestinian people, accused Israel of being an apartheid regime and committing war crimes, and called on the Biden Administration to cut off aid to Israel.

The BDS movement is anti-Semitic. Period. Full stop. There's no question about that, as its founders have repeatedly made clear.

Unfortunately, San Francisco isn't alone. The Los Angeles teachers' union has scheduled a September vote on a similar resolution. 

Los Angeles has the second largest Jewish population in the United States. Jewish parents in California are saying publicly that they fear for their children given the rise in anti-Semitic attacks and now these public endorsements of anti-Semitism by so-called "educators," who are utterly ignorant about the most democratic nation in the Middle East.

In a recent interview, the leaders of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations warned, as I have, that anti-Semitism is growing on the political left. They were especially critical of the connection with "progressive intersectionality," which demands that all left-wing movements toe the same line on all issues.

The progressive left increasingly views the world's only Jewish state not as a bastion of freedom and tolerance, but as a "white settler colonial nation" that is "oppressing people of color." 

"We have seen how Black Lives Matter and others have been turned through intersectionality into anti-Israel movements, which have strong anti-Semitic components," said William Daroff.

The ancient evil of anti-Semitism is a sign of serious sickness in any society, no matter where it emerges. As an evangelical Christian, I will always stand proudly with our Jewish brothers and sisters, and I will always stand proudly with the state of Israel.