It’s no secret that the National Education Association, the largest teachers’ union in America, has an antisemitism problem. But it also has a terrorist problem.
The NEA has cultivated close ties with a teachers’ union in the West Bank whose leader has expressed support for terrorists. In fact, the NEA has even sent the group funds billed as humanitarian aid, even though the leader of that union has celebrated terrorists as martyrs and met with a top official from a U.S.-designated terror group.
The NEA’s antisemitism was on display at its national assembly last month, where delegates voted to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League, the antisemitism watchdog. Jewish teachers at the assembly reported being bullied. (After an outcry from Jewish community leaders and elected officials