Newton, MA Public School Officials Backtrack on Pledge to Rid Curriculum of Anti-Israel Bias

In several posts we have described how biased teaching materials about the Arab-Israeli conflict and the history and practice of Islam were used for years in the curriculum of two public high schools in the Boston suburb of Newton, Massachusetts:

Case Study: Biased curriculum on Israel and Islam in a Massachusetts school system

Massachusetts public school assignment simulated Hajj to Mecca

The nearly 7-year controversy isn’t over, even though some of the worst teaching materials have now been removed. Some teachers are still presenting students with a biased anti-Israel curriculum, as revealed through recent FOIA requests. And an all-day event this spring at one of the high schools included the screening of a set of films allegedly connected to the virulently anti-Israel activist Ali Abunimah.

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