Posted on 06/05/2011 11:34:03 AM PDT by Nachum
Teachers unions have historically been formed to protect the rights of faculty members through collective bargaining. So, why would the California Faculty Association, a union from the largest state university system in the country go out of its way to issue an resolution that is decidedly anti-Israel? Additionally, why is a teachers union even spending time discussing, debating and passing a resolution about Israel and the Palestinians? Let’s drill down into the union for more information.
The CFA (the California Faculty Association) claims to be a union which exists to support the teachers California’s colleges and universities. From their own website;
CFA stands for:
Quality education for our students Fairness for those of us who earn our living as teachers Policies that ensure access to higher education
That all sounds fairly typical of a teachers union; deliver quality education, get paid a decent salary and push so more people can gain access to the schools (guaranteeing continued employment). No big deal, right?
The union also states;
We are a union of 23,000 professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors and coaches who teach in the California State University system. In classrooms on the 23 CSU campuses, CFA members work hard to teach our students the critical-thinking skills, the technical know-how and the cultural insights they need to be thoughtful, productive and artistic participants in our society.
Great! All of that sounds swell. Digging a little deeper into the CFA’s history reveals some surprising ideas.
In 2009 the union adopted a resolution in 2009 titled, “CFA Call for a Halt to Violence Against All Civilians in Palestine and Israel.” The resolution is so patently Anti-Israel, that Leila Beckwith, a former UCLA professor, wrote the following in early 2010 for the American Thinker;
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
Hey, look at what I found! This is a reason to homeschool that I hadn’t thought of. Those public schools sure keep you busy. Have you been forced to buy a schedule planner yet?
Teachers of Satan
Kalifornia is the same state that brought us “Foreskin Man” the Blonde Hair blue eyed man who fights the evil joo rabbi....
Who would have guessed the Teacher’s union was anti-Israel too....
Bigots.
Teachers’ unions support of abortion rights is even more bizarre; if you thought tobacco companies were killing their clients...
Hate God = Hate Israel!
President David A. Sanchez
http://www.cta.org/About-CTA/Leadership/Officers/~/media/1C8A789B3EC34D8AACC630F492A3F5CE.ashx
Sanchez is bilingual and has been the voice of CTA radio commercials in Spanish for the past eight years. He believes that our society’s diversity makes us whole. He leads California’s largest teachers union at a time when half of the student population is Latino, and 25 percent are English learners of many ethnicities. He believes we have to close the school resource gap if we are to close the student achievement gaps that challenge our schools of greatest need.
He believes all schools deserve adequate and equitable funding and wants to build on CTA’s Quality Education Investment Act of 2006. This law will provide nearly $3 billion over eight years for proven intervention reforms such as smaller classes, more counselors and better training for teachers and principals at hundreds of our most disadvantaged schools.
His late father, Dr. David J. Sanchez, for 23 years headed the Department of Ethnic Studies and Multicultural Education at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
I dont get it. They called for a halt to violence against civilians in the west bank and Israel. What is so anti Israel about that?
Apologies, I did not read the full article and just read what was posted, which did not seem anti Israel when it stood alone.
When I hear those words, all I hear is a call for “restraint” on the part of Israel. There would be almost no violence if the Arabs could learn to live with their Israeli neighbors.
When Arabs kill Jews, they are justified, when Arabs kill Arabs, it’s not even newsworthy, when Israelis defend themselves, it’s aggression.
The teacher unions were infiltrated by Marxists at its inception. They are just like every other movement....all infiltrated, even most churches. (homosexual movement-hays was a communist....Friedan—feminist movement was a communist....etc. etc. etc. All their groups are for one purpose-—destroy unity that made Western Civ so great: Judeo/Christian ethics and the Natural family.
Destroy virtue and you destroy the culture. Marcuse and his gang designed the schools and the media to tear down the good and elevate the bad. Their intent is to destroy the two remaining obstacles of one-world domination which is all that stands in their way—Israel and USA.
It is the one-world plan to destroy religious belief-—destroy the idea of God—so that people are slaves to the state and can be used as means to their end.
Akin to asking why is the sky blue.
perfect summary. they follow Gramsci.
and people who warned about it, were called crackpots, like MCCarthy. ...and the rest of the good men, did nothing.
and it all ties in to the assault on marriage, the Church, the family. to make us dependent on the Government, instead of ourselves, our families, and our neighbors.
You don’t see them passing resolutions against countries that are truly vicious toward their own citizens like Syria.
So in this case anti-Israel equals anti-Semitic.
Because those F*ck*** Jews look funny and are better educated, have the highest tech industry in the world, have tamed the desert, are fantastic fighters, but mostly because they look funny (the orthodox ones anyway).
Because those F*ck*** Jews look funny and are better educated, have the highest tech industry in the world, have tamed the desert, are fantastic fighters, but mostly because they look funny (the orthodox ones anyway).
Anti-Semitism is the default position of fascists.
Exactly....you can read about it...they wrote about their intent to destroy the Religion and the natural family...the two pillar of Western Civ. It wasn’t just “any” religion....it was the Bible—Jewish and Christian Theology....those ideas that ended up giving Western Civilization the ideas that all human beings had dignity and worth—all—the lepers, the unborn, the old.
Marxists want to be able to kill off the ones they decide are not good for the collective. It is what they do. They are gods and decides everything for you—esp. life and death—and all their serfs live in constant fear because they have no right and wrong....no rules of the game.....no absolute truth. (Witness by Chambers). “Kill God” because God gives absolute truths where economic systems and flourishing relationships can be built. All other models failed terribly, esp. where freedom of all existed. Homosexual marriage destroys the idea of absolutes....creates a sexual free for all which always includes pederasty.
It is like trying to have a basketball game with no rules-—it ends in fight and chaos. Marcuse knew that....that is why they use the ACLU to attack all rules and standards (founded by a communist also).
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