ZOA Triggers Removal and Review of Anti-Israel Lesson for K-12 History Education
The National Council for History Education (NCHE), which provides resources to teachers for quality history education, removed a lesson from its website and is reviewing the lesson’s contents, after the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) raised concerns about the lesson’s many falsehoods and its anti-Israel bias. NCHE’s lesson, titled “Plan Displacement and Resistance: The Nakba of 1948 Continues,” was “shockingly inaccurate,” ZOA wrote in a letter to Jessica Ellison, NCHE’s executive director. The lesson, the ZOA asserted, “downplays and ignores critical facts in order to deny Israel’s right to exist and its right to defend its people from violence and terrorism.” […]
Founded in 1897, the Zionist Organization of America (“ZOA”) is the oldest pro-Israel organization in the United States. With offices around the country and in Israel, the ZOA is dedicated to educating the public, elected officials, media, and college/high school students about the truth of the ongoing and relentless Arab war against Israel. ZOA is also committed to promoting strong U.S.-Israel relations. ZOA works to protect Jewish college and high school students from intimidation, harassment and discrimination, and in fighting anti-Semitism in general.
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