CODEPINK activists throughout California are testifying before school boards and meeting with superintendents, presenting our Open Letter asking school districts NOT to contract or promote professional development with the California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education until its teacher training program (1) includes scholars on Palestine and US-Israel genocide in Gaza (2) expels the Anti-Defamation League and other organizations that conflate antisemitism with anti-Zionism (3) develops a transparent and accountable governance structure.  

We invite school boards, county offices of education, teachers unions, parent groups and all community stakeholders to join us in expelling the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) as teacher trainers and curriculum developers from our schools. We value education, not indoctrination, and want our students to learn the truth about Israel’s occupations of Palestine and genocide in Gaza.

CODEPINK works in solidarity with the national Drop the ADL from School Campaign, which urges schools to take the following actions:

1. “Cut all ties with the ADL, including use or endorsement of their curricular materials: (No Place for Hate, Echoes & Reflections, A World of Difference), Do not participate in their programs or engage in their professional development offerings;
2. End contracts with the ADL as consultants on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice (DEIJ) policy, programming, or bias incident response – even when services are offered free of  charge;
3. Stop referencing the ADL’s discredited statistics, and stop sending data or information of any kind to the ADL;

Ensure that all your institutional relationships and contracts truly uphold and promote principles of equality and dignity for all students who may be the targets of racism or bigotry of any kind.”

To learn more, check out the Drop The ADL From Schools website and read CA’s New Law-ADL Genociders to Train Teachers on Genocide.

Sign up HERE to work with a local CODEPINK Chapter to Drop the ADL. Email [email protected] for more information.