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Skip to main content After S.F. teachers union vote to support Israel boycott, Jewish families question if students will feel safe FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Guest speakers chat under posters for activist organizations during a workshop for San Francisco teens learning how to become activists in their own community just before a surprise visit from former Vice President Joe Biden who later address a crowd in conjunction with his new book, at the San Francisco Jewish Community Center in San Franc...

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Unions anti-Israel proposals draw condemnation from parents Getty Images Graham Piro • June 4, 2021 5:00 am SHARE One of the driving forces behind a California teachers unions anti-Israel efforts publicly called Zionism a "sick bourgeois" ideology and called for an end to "Israeli war crimes and colonization." Soni Lloyd, a left-wing activist and teacher who unsuccessfully ran for the presidency of the United Teachers Los Angeles union at the beginning of 2020, described the United Stat...

Pro-Palestinian protesters at Port of Oakland attempt to block unloading of Israeli cargo ship FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Protesters seeking for the second time to block the unloading of an Israeli cargo ship were gathering at the Port of Oakland early Friday, carrying banners and waving Palestinian flags in support of the movement to impose an economic boycott of Israel following the 11-day Israeli-Palestinian armed conflict.Arab Resource and Organizing CenterShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Protesters ...

Local teachers’ unions in San Francisco and the Los Angeles area have passed resolutions expressing support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions

San Francisco’s teachers union is drawing criticism from Jewish families after voting to endorse the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and releasing a statement accusing America’s Middle Eastern ally of committing “apartheid and war crimes”.

Members of two California teachers’ unions affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers are endorsing the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, a sign of the unions’ increasingly hostile relationship with the Jewish community.

133 members of Congress signed a letter urging President Joe Biden to “condemn and...

Parents with children in the San Francisco public school system expressed feelings of “outrage” and disappointment upon hearing that the teachers’ union had passed a resolution supporting BDS and calling for the U.S. to defund Israel. On May 19, one day before Israel and Hamas agreed to a cease-fire after 11 days of fighting, the voting assembly of the United Educators of San Francisco passed the “Resolution in Solidarity with the Palestinian People” by a roughly 4-1 margin. It was a ...

It’s the first time since 2016 that any American union has officially supported the anti-Israel boycott movement.