Petition: Force Newton, Massachusetts, to Condemn its Teachers’ Union’s Anti-Semitism
The city of Newton must condemn the Massachusetts Teachers Association
As we have documented previously, the Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) is a proudly anti-Semitic indoctrination system. Their curricula, as confirmed by the AJC, is openly hostile to Israel and teaches children in public schools provable lies — even vulgar stereotypes — about Jews.
Therefore (if you are a resident of Newton, Massachusetts), please sign the Israeli-American Civic Action Network’s newest petition, demanding that the city of Newton condemn the MTA and ban “use of MTA-issued content unless formally reviewed and approved by the district.”
We can confirm that doing so will have an effect, as neighboring Brookline successfully passed a similar anti-MTA resolution just days ago.
Another sign that speaking out and standing up can work is what happened exactly one year ago today.
On May 9, 2024, the Newton Free Library was scheduled to host an event featuring an anti-Semitic photographer named Skip Schiel, whose blood libel “exhibit,” entitled “The Ongoing & Relentless Nakba: The Palestinian Catastrophe of 1948,” was on show.
Newton’s Jewish mayor, Ruthanne Fuller, ignored Jewish residents’ pleas that the event be an open debate about the exhibit — not just the photographer’s rant and then a panel of Arab activists’ diatribes afterwards. In disgust and frustration, local Jews and even some Christian and Iranian Zionists came to the library to protest.
Jill Charney, the event’s MC and a member of the anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace, immediately ordered everyone inside the policeman-laden function room to remain “100% quiet” and said that the only acceptable questions from the audience would be pre-screened and written on index cards.
The outraged Jews began shouting “Shame!” and “Anti-Semite!” at Charney and Schiel, and then spontaneously began singing “Ha-Tik’vah.” In response, the anti-Israel thugs, many wearing masks, screamed typical genocidal slogans and even added in “Judaism, yes! Zionism, no!”
Eventually, the commotion proved too much and the organizers aborted the event. Because they peacefully refused to endure abandonment by their leadership and slander by their enemies, Jews were not defamed in their own public library.
Watch our video about the event, which received more than 29,000 views in just two months, here.
