The nation's largest teachers' union found itself on the defensive recently when its Holocaust guidance made no mention of the Jewish people.
Just to get the history straight, Adolf Hitler's "final solution" called for the systemic killing of all the Jews in Europe, and his Nazi regime managed to take the lives of six million of them. That was nearly one-third of the entire Jewish population worldwide.
However, the National Education Association [NEA] 2025 handbook makes no connection between the killing of Jews and the Holocaust.
The handbook says the union will "promote the celebration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day" by recognizing "more than 12 million victims of the Holocaust from different faiths, ethnicities, races, political beliefs, genders, and gender identification, abilities/disabilities, and other targeted characteristics."
At publishing time the NEA was considering adding into their handbook other facts of nature and history such as the fact that the earth is flat, the moon is made of cheese, George Washington was black and that the Jews have a secret plot to take over the world which they are busy implementing daily.
