Subsequent public records requests by Parents Defending Education revealed school district educators who are also members of the Oakland Education Association for Palestine caucus led the webinar for staff and students with content that with extreme anti-Israel content.
One guest speaker claimed that Israel is a “project to completely replace the indigenous population with a settler one. It’s an attempt to exterminate the Palestinians carried out through a collusion between Israel, the U.S., the European Union and other Western powers.”
No age group in the school district is spared.
Nicole Neily of Parents Defending Education says these teachings have been taking place coast to coast since Oct. 7 of last year.
"The most prominent one was one in Oakland. We've seen these materials shared in school districts across the country continuing to perpetuate really dangerous rhetoric. The fact that this is then being taught and passed on to minor children behind their parents' backs is really insulting."
Despite concerned families leaving the district in droves, she says further emails show radical board and teachers' union members continue to ignore those concerns.
"We have filed a number of public records requests of asking for emails of the Oakland School Board. It does not really seem like there are very many people who are interested in reigning this activism in, unfortunately. If anything, there are board members that are supportive and encourage this kind of kind of wacky behavior."
Communism in the classroom ... almost
In one email a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA was asking to bring members of its youth organization in to speak to students.
The heavily redacted email began with the party member saying a few of its youth could visit a classroom “with an overall topic of what a rare time we are facing in the year 20204” tying Gaza and the elections together.
Ultimately this visit of communism to the American classroom did not work out.
The teacher responded, “I no longer work at the high school level and now work online. Glad you are organizing for Gaza, but I don’t have a classroom available.”
