CodePink's 'Anti-Zionism' Classroom Webinar Just Got Absolutely Dismantled
Progressive policy ambitions meet practical realities as Americans weigh costs and consequences.
CodePink putting together a webinar for teachers on how to bring "anti-Zionism" into the classroom tells you exactly what this is. Not a lesson plan. A recruitment pitch dressed up as curriculum, aimed at kids who don't have the historical grounding yet to push back on it.
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Democrats love to champion diversity. They want people of different skin color (except white people), of different religions (except Christians), of different ideologies (except conservatives), and of different sexual orientations (except straight) to have more representation.
But what they do not want is a diversity of thought. That's why leftists go around removing books they don't like from free little libraries, and it's why groups like CodePink go to schools and try to indoctrinate children.
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CodePink putting together a webinar for teachers on how to bring "anti-Zionism" into the classroom tells you exactly what this is. Not a lesson plan. A recruitment pitch dressed up as curriculum, aimed at kids who don't have the historical grounding yet to push back on it. That's the tell. If your argument is strong enough to stand on its own, you don't need a captive audience of fifteen-year-olds and a teacher's union hall pass to make it.
The dismantling this piece describes matters because somebody actually did the work of pulling the thing apart line by line instead of just yelling about it. That's the right response. But it shouldn't have taken outside pressure and a viral callout to get scrutiny applied to material heading into classrooms. Where were the vetting questions before it got that far? Schools are supposed to have some filter for who gets to walk in and shape what kids think about a live geopolitical conflict. Apparently that filter is thinner than anyone wants to admit.
The diversity point in the piece stings because it's true. The same institutions that will move mountains to add a dissenting voice on almost any other topic go quiet, or worse, roll out the welcome mat, when the dissent runs toward anti-Israel activism with a political agenda attached. Nobody is arguing kids shouldn't learn hard history. They should. But there's a difference between teaching a conflict and being handed one side's talking points by an advocacy group that showed up specifically to plant them.
What actually protects kids here isn't banning conversation, it's insisting that whoever gets access to a classroom has to earn it with rigor, not slogans. CodePink didn't earn it. That's the whole story, and it's worth saying plainly instead of dancing around it.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.