Exclusive: Red state updating education standards to address rise in antisemitism in schools

EXCLUSIVE: In airy of the surge successful conflicts successful the Middle East and rising hostility wrong the U.S., the Oklahoma Department of Education has sent a memo to each nationalist schools wrong the authorities guiding them to "safeguard students from woke, radicalized, terrorist-sympathizing rhetoric pushed by leftist educators."

In the memo, Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters said, "Oklahoma kids volition beryllium taught facts, not indoctrination."

The memo issues caller guidance to Oklahoma nationalist schools to guarantee that societal studies courses present acquisition connected Israel that is "historically grounded and balanced," requiring acquisition utilizing superior sources, humanities grounds and "guarding against antisemitic oregon politicized narratives."

Its caller guidance instructs Oklahoma nationalist educators to contiguous the history of Israel and its "fight to rightly beryllium successful the world, including the atrocities of the Holocaust and the existent conflict with Iran, successful a mode that is historically grounded, intellectually honest, and escaped from antisemitic bias."

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Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters' caller guidance for authorities schools aims to combat "antisemitic oregon politicized narratives." (Seth Herald/Reuters; Sue Ogrocki/AP Photo)

"These standards supply indispensable discourse for knowing modern threats to Jewish communities and antiauthoritarian nations and necessitate students to deliberation critically portion ensuring the acquisition of Israel is historically grounded and balanced," the memo states.

This comes arsenic antisemitic incidents person risen crossed the country since 2020. Tensions person risen adjacent further pursuing Israel's motorboat of strikes against Iran and the U.S. joining successful by launching strikes connected 3 Iranian atomic improvement sites connected Saturday.

Fox News Digital obtained a transcript of the memo being sent to schools. In the memo, the Oklahoma State Department of Education points to the recent controversy successful New York successful which they said a authorities standardized exam survey usher "described Zionism arsenic a ‘colonial’ question and included misleading references to terrorism."

The memo said that New York "serves arsenic a staunch reminder that determination exists ideology and acquisition materials not lone distort humanities information but hazard promoting ideologies that are inconsistent with Oklahoma values."

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People enactment successful a 'Climate Justice Means Free Palestine!' rally extracurricular of the Citibank office connected June 18, 2024 successful New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

"Oklahoma’s standards are designed to forestall this by mounting wide expectations for contented accuracy and instructional integrity," says the memo.

"The tragic events of October 7, 2023 — erstwhile Hamas militants launched a brutal astonishment onslaught connected Israeli civilians, sidesplitting implicit 1,200 radical and taking hundreds hostage — marked a turning constituent successful modern Middle Eastern history," the memo states. "These developments are not conscionable headlines, they are past successful the making and item the urgent request for educators to contiguous planetary conflicts with clarity, accuracy, and motivation responsibility."

In a connection emailed to Fox News Digital, Walters touted Oklahoma’s past standards, saying they are "the champion successful the country" due to the fact that "they are based connected facts and safeguard students from woke, radicalized, terrorist-sympathizing rhetoric pushed by Leftist educators."

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This comes amid heightened tensions successful the U.S. owed to the ongoing struggle betwixt Iran and Israel and President Donald Trump’s determination to motorboat U.S. subject strikes connected 3 Iranian atomic improvement sites. Iran has vowed to retaliate and connected Monday launched missiles astatine the U.S. Al Udeid Air Base successful Qatar.