School aid: Pray to Allah, abolish prisons, lobby Biden

By Taxpayers Association of Oregon
OregonWatchdog.com

The Portland Association of Teachers union has put up many activity books and school aids on how to turn students into activists against Israeli people and the Democratic state of Israel.

Read below:

• One handbook asks students to write their protest against Israel by saying,  “free Palestine” and “…I will chant this at a Palestine protest _________.”

• One handbook shows pictures of people waving signs saying “abolish prisons” and “Everybody free”

• The same handbook shows a sign calling “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free” which is a world-renown antisemitic slogan calling the destruction of the state of Israel.  It even features a para-glider which was used (and became the symbol of) the October 7th attacked which massacred 1,200 Jewish people.

Reference to the handglider:

• One activity book says “You can raise your hands to the sky and pray for the people of Palestine”.   (Interestingly, the only time we see schools mentioning prayer, it is when it is directly tied to Leftist politics and combined with the destruction of Israel a very multi-religious, pluralistic, Democracy)

The Oregonian has noted these activities recommended by the School Union:

“A 100-page lesson plan, “Palestine and Settler Colonialism,” that asks students “What are ways you think we can fight for justice for Palestinians? ”

“The plan also tells students the United States gives more than $3 billion each year to Israel to buy weapons to fight Palestinians. “This means American leaders are helping to make settler colonialism happen,” the plan says. “This is not okay.”It then pictures President Joe Biden and directs students to “(w)rite to a leader and tell them how we could use the money that we send to Israel in a better way.”

The Taxpayers Association of Oregon previously reported this similar controversy earlier this week.  See below:

A Portland teachers union has removed a very anti-semtic handbook from their online website.  KGW-TV 8 reports, “Alongside teaching material, a Portland Public Schools Jewish teacher told KGW that the union handed out pro-Palestinian material at a meeting on May 28.Some pages called the Israeli government “apartheid rule.” Other pamphlets referred to Hamas as a “Palestinian Resistance Force.”

National Review reports, “Last week, the Portland Association of Teachers held a pro-Palestinian advocacy meeting where members were urged to display Palestinian flags in their classrooms, according to a report in the Oregonian newspaper. Union members were also urged to wear T-shirts that read “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” – an antisemitic slogan the refers to the elimination of Israel, which is home to nearly half of the world’s Jews.The meeting comes after the union recently released a guide that instructed teachers on how to get involved in Pro-Palestinian organizing and how to inject their lessons for children as young as preschool with anti-Israel messages.The 32-page guide, “Know Your Rights! Teaching & Organizing for Palestine within Portland Public Schools,” was published last month by the Oregon Educators for Palestine in collaboration with the teachers’ union. It offers legal advice to educators “teaching about the genocide in Palestine,” and advice on how to teach about the ongoing conflict.”

It has a section where it seems to promote “subversion” …

Willamette Week reports, “The handbook itself instructs teachers on how teaching pro-Palestinian materials and lesson plans fits into the union’s contract with the school district. The handbook makes the case that such lesson plans are allowed under contract language….“Teaching about Palestine is also protected under Oregon’s Ethnic Studies Standards.”… “Remind them that what we are seeing is not a long-standing hostility between Jewish and Arab or Muslim people. Palestinian resistance is a political struggle for self-determination against colonial and apartheid rule that has roots in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.”

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