California scraps ethnic-studies model decried as antisemitic, left-wing 'propaganda'

"The California State Board of Education has decided to scrap a proposed ethnic-studies curriculum after a groundswell of opposition over the draft's allegedly anti-Semitic and anti-Israel content.

In a joint statement on the board's website, three board officials said Monday that the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum now under consideration 'falls short and needs to be substantially redesigned.'...

The draft included sections on a wide range of minority groups, including Arab Americans, but not Jewish Americans, and identified multiple examples of bigotry, but not anti-Semitism.

The proposed curriculum also promoted the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, as well as BDS supporters such as Women's March co-leader Linda Sarsour, and included rap lyrics about Jewish control of the media..."