The Massachusetts (MTA) teacher association removes connections to websites with controversial materials after being charged with expanding anti -Semitism.
The local hearing became the national news because President MTA -e Max Page was grilled at the union by dividing educational resources that contained offensive images that criticize Israel.
Pictures included a dollar bill folded into David’s star along with criticism foreign aid to Israel, A poster that shows as an armed Palestinian with the words “what belonged to force can only be returned by force,” and the children’s book that the Zionists cite as a “group of abuser”.
Government of Maura Healey Talked about controversy Direct, saying: “Pictures on the website of the Massachusetts Teachers Association were anti -Semitic, offensive and never had to share me. I talked to MTA’s guidance to my worries and I’m glad to remove them – that should do it right away.”
Max Page, President of MTA, speaks on a demonstration outside the City Hall Malden. (Photo Carlin Stiehl for Boston Globe via Getty Images))
She added: “I understand the importance of ensuring that teachers and educators have instructions on how to talk about this complex issue. Therefore, it was important to remove these images so that everyone could gather to determine how to solve this topic rightly and appropriately moves forward.
The Vice President of the Page and Union of Deb McCarthy replied with a public statement, declaring that MTA “defended the right of all students and teachers to feel supported and involved in our classrooms and unambiguously condemn anti -Semitism and Islamophobia and all other forms of hatred and discrimination.”
Union leaders based in Massachusetts claimed that their website only for members had a wide selection of resources to explain the historically complex conflict in the Middle East, “and includes materials from the League Against Clevet, United States Memorial for the Holocaust The museum, faced with history and us, the New York Times, Nea and many other appreciated sources. “
They also pushed out against some of their critics, stating that the controversial images discussed at a recent hearing never directly displayed on the site only for members.
President MTA Max Page was a grill at the content of content accessed through connections on the only MTA website.
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“As reliable educators, MTA members would never like to have anti -Semitic materials on MTA website, and MTA does not promote materials that directing hatred in any group. We will remove any materials that do not further cause the cause of promoting understanding,” the union wrote leaders.
“The pictures shown at the hearing of a special commission for the fight against anti -Semitism in February 10 are not published on the MTA website, but on the external websites, which are connected to the foreign resources. Links on websites containing these offensive images will be removed. “
The local Adl chapter praised the decision of MTA as a “welcome first step”.
One graphic discussion seemed to have portrayed the armed Palestinian and rhetoric about the country that returns “by force.”
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“The Decision of @Masscheracher to remove the harmful content from its curricular resource list is welcome the first step towards restoring confidence,” said the ADL Local Branch at X. “In the light of significant problems highlighted at last week’s commission of the committee on this specific anti -Semitic resources And the biased nature of the census, we invite @Masscher to take positive steps to objectively check his resources for bias and pedagogical sound and become any future version of this public list for complete transparency. “
