Student #testimony on #antisemitism in #LAUSD (starts at about 15:00). Thank you @NickMelvoinBD4 and @ScottAtLAUSD for showing up for #Jewish kids in @LASchools. youtu.be/Tp5m-RwCHe4

This didn’t come out of nowhere. Since October 7, 2023, UTLA’s governing bodies have repeatedly used official union time and resources against Israel—including passing a resolution demanding an embargo on US arms sales to Israel and pushing the claim that Zionism is racism. Jewish leaders in Los Angeles warned as far back as 2021 that this anti-Israel activism would alienate Jewish educators and make public schools feel unsafe for Jewish students, families, and staff. Those warnings were ignored. Instead, UTLA doubled down, and Amy Leserman became one of the most visible, courageous voices holding them accountable.

The Freedom Foundation is proud to stand with Amy Leserman and other Jewish LA teachers in their federal lawsuit challenging forced representation by UTLA. Filed on October 7, 2024, the suit exposes how a union that promotes hostility toward Jewish identity and safety cannot be allowed to forcibly “represent” Jewish workers who pay dues against their will. A federal district court dismissed the case in 2025. We have appealed to the Ninth Circuit, and we're not backing down. This is bigger than one union or one teacher. Across the country, public-sector unions are demanding monopoly power over workers while pushing agendas that threaten Jewish Americans.

A shocking antisemitic purge at one of America’s largest teachers’ unions. Last Wednesday night, the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) House of Representatives voted to expel Amy Leserman — an Orthodox Jew, 25-year UTLA member, LA public school teacher, and chair of the Educators Caucus for Israel, @kdeutschjourno explains on his Substack. UTLA denounced Amy by name, branded Zionism “racism,” and accused her of “targeting union activists”. Her offense? Sitting silently on a Zoom call she had every right to attend.🧵

HOSTILE SIGNAL: The LA teachers union bypassed its own rules to expel a Jewish Zionist activist — Amy Leserman, chair of JewTLA, a group supporting pro-Israel teachers in LAUSD. Labor unions are now a front in the campaign to make pro-Israel advocacy institutionally unsustainabl

Amy Leserman isn’t intimidated. After the expulsion she wrote: “I’ve been kicked out of better places. But I’ve never been more certain the work is landing.” We agree. Every time unions like UTLA expose their true face — driving out Jewish members and treating Zionism as racism — more Americans see the rot in public unions and the urgent need for right-to-work protections. Stand with Amy. Stand with Jewish teachers who just want to teach without being targeted for their faith and heritage. Follow the Freedom Foundation for more on this case. And be sure to check out the full story from @kdeutschjourno here!👇 kevindeutsch.substack.com/p/…

Jerry Seinfeld: 1. Sat court side instead of donating his Tix to Palestinian refugees. 2. Didn’t donate the cost of his tickets to UNRWA to offset his Jewish privilege (like carbon credits for Jews). 3. Then claimed Palestine doesn’t exist.

Statement from David Englin, Senior Regional Director of ADL Los Angeles, regarding the incident at the @UTLAnow House of Representatives meeting last week.

Justice Department Launches Compliance Review Concerning Gender Ideology in San Francisco Unified School District and Three Additional California School Districts “This Department of Justice will not tolerate local school authorities trampling on the rights of parents concerning the education of their children,” said @AAGDhillon. “The Supreme Court’s recent decisions in Mahmoud and Mirabelli have put all school districts on notice: policies that keep parents in the dark about sexuality and gender ideology in the classroom must end now.” 🔗: justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-d…

🌳Wednesday, the UTLA House of Representatives voted to expel me from their meeting for fighting anti-Jew hatred. For half an hour, the union president Cecily Myart-Cruz allowed members to slander me from the floor. They equated Zionism with racism and it was quite ugly. 🌳 Half an hour.🌳 Twenty-three out of 160 representatives voted against it. Twenty-three people in a room full of hostility chose decency.🌳 So I have planted a tree in Israel for each of them.🌳 Twenty-three trees through JNF, two and a half orchards in the land of Israel. Because that’s what Jews do. We plant. We build. We restore.🌳 Go ahead and hurl your hate. We will still build, plant, grow.🌳 Israel is one of the few countries on earth with more forested land today than it had a century ago. I have stood in the hills of Judea and Samaria and seen what replanting looks like. It is holy work. JNF has been doing it since 1901, longer than most of our critics’ ideologies have existed.🌳 You cannot slander a forest into submission.🌳 If you want to turn outrage into something that grows, consider making a donation in any amount at JNF.org. Plant a tree. Counter the hate with roots.🌳 🌳Am Yisrael Chai and Shabbat Shalom!🌳

Scooplet: I've learned that Spanish, French, British and Canadian Jewish communities have contacted officials at the State Department to explore the possibility of their members immigrating to America under refugee or other protected status avenues. This is due to the rise of often violent antisemitism in their home countries. A State Department official confirmed the information. There is no indication that the department has moved forward on the requests, or what position it might hold. Amb. Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, the State Department’s special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism, declined to comment directly on the information that I received. “It is the government’s responsibility in those countries to make certain that the Jewish community has safety, security and the ability to practice their religion free from any type of harm,” he told me. “The U.S. government demands it.”

The ostensibly Jewish District Attorney of Los Angeles County insists that it is not a hate crime to attack Jews with a baseball bat while screaming anti-Semitic death threats. Mr. Hochman should define his criteria. If that is not a hate crime then what is a hate crime?

Last night, at an official UTLA House of Representatives meeting, 160 credentialed teachers — the people who teach your children — spent thirty minutes denouncing me by name, declared that Zionism is racism, and then voted to expel me. I never said a single word the entire meeting. For two hours I sat silently as an observer, which is my right as a union member in good standing. Then someone noticed I was there. What followed was half an hour of teachers explaining how terrible I am, how Zionism is racism, and how I had personally tried to get them fired — stories I don’t recognize and that anyone who knows how schools work would find laughable. Then they voted out the only Orthodox Jew in the room. No charges. No process. No hearing. Just organized hostility, a vote, and a gavel. I’ve been doing antisemitism accountability work in K-12 education for years. I file complaints. I document. I publish. I name names. Apparently my silent presence on a Zoom call is a five-alarm emergency. I want to be clear about what happened: a union used official meeting time to conduct a public denunciation of a Jewish advocate, then expelled her for the crime of showing up and saying nothing. I’ve been kicked out of better places. But I’ve never been more certain the work is landing.

Orthodox Jew Ben Forer won his race in Los Angeles tonight! Mazal Tov, Judge Forer!

Santa Monica police chief Darrick Jacob refused to file hate crime charges after a criminal attacked a Jewish couple with a bat. While screaming anti-Semitic slurs. And urging his dog to bite the Jews. Members of The Tribe would be wise to avoid Santa Monica while Jacob is chief.

Every cowardly K-12 teacher who posts a political Palestinian flag in your classroom, what you are doing is hanging Jews in effigy. Raping Jews in effigy. Kidnapping and torturing Jews in effigy. You can remove those flags now, at the end of the year. But we already know who you are. And what you wish for. And we are a people with a frighteningly long memory.

More disturbing details have emerged about the shooting at the Islamic Center of San Diego: Apart from being the same mosque attended by two 9/11 hijackers, the imam and his wife openly justified the October 7 Hamas attacks and held a vigil for the “martyrs.” It has now been revealed that the security guard who was killed also glorified Hitler and the mass murder of Jews. The mosque itself seems to be a center of Islamic extremism. The two suicidal perpetrators of the shooting have been identified as neo-Nazis and left a manifesto blaming Jews for everything. It’s unclear whether they were aware that the mosque shared the same anti-Zionist stance and hatred of Jews. I think this case is a fascinating example of the left-Muslim-Nazi alliance. These people have nothing in common, but are united by their hatred of Jews and Israel. Scratch beneath the surface and they hate and kill each other. Literally.

RT @TheJewishAlly: The National Education Association, the largest teachers’ union in the United States, was hit with a federal complaint a…

Noa Tishby on @Morning_Joe — “People don’t know basic concepts about Judaism, about antisemitism. And we hate what we don’t know.” That’s why we created “What Is” as a resource to educate people on the most important topics related to Judaism and the Jewish people.

🚨 BREAKING! WHERE IS THE $48 MILLION? IAN has found that Arc of Justice, Medea (Susan) Benjamin’s private foundation, aka the Benjamin Fund, has been shut down in California by the AG, FTB, and SOS. Public 990s reported $48M in assets. Arc of Justice's last publicly available IRS filing is 2022. Benjamin and Evans are co-founders of Codepink. Medea Benjamin is president of Arc of Justice. In CA Jodie Evans is agent for service. 📢Full report to come. @Scottbessentus @USTreasury