'Israel-Palestine Conflict' section of study guide for New York high schoolers draws outrage

A New York State Regents Exam survey usher intended for 10th graders is making the rounds connected societal media implicit its conception connected the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In the guide’s conception connected "Decolonization and Nationalism" — which happens to beryllium Unit 10.7 — the conception gives its explanation of Zionism and includes notes connected the United Nations Partition Plan and acts of terrorism.

The wide criticized usher calls Zionism an "example of utmost nationalism" and defines it arsenic the "belief that Jews request a homeland successful Palestine." Additionally, its illustration nether the class of "Acts of Terrorism by Israel & Palestine" is "settler question by Jews taking distant onshore from Palestinians."

A survey usher meant to assistance 10th graders successful New York hole for a authorities exam drew backlash implicit its conception connected the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (Getty Images)

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Half Hollow Hills Central School District Interim Superintendent Brian Conboy addressed the contented astatine a Board of Education gathering connected Monday. He said that the worldly successful question was neither created nor approved by the Social Studies Department oregon the district. He besides noted that the worldly was created earlier Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre.

"As planned and antecedently discussed, the HHH Social Studies Department volition beryllium gathering to behaviour program penning implicit the adjacent 2 months to code these nonstop topics.  Moving forward, each program relating to these issues, some humanities and modern, volition beryllium district-wide and vetted by an extracurricular radical of experts successful the field," Conboy said. He assured parents that each teachers successful Global Studies 10 would usage "the aforesaid materials and language" connected this taxable adjacent schoolhouse year.

"On behalf of the district, I privation you each to cognize that violative and inaccurate materials specified arsenic this bash not conscionable our standards of excellence and are not thing we instrumentality lightly.  We tin and volition bash amended moving forward," Conboy concluded.

Palestinians asses the harm pursuing an Israeli onslaught successful the Nuseirat exile campy successful the cardinal Gaza Strip connected July 6, 2024. (EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images)

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The New York State Education Department (NYSED) Spokesperson JP O’Hare acknowledged the contented successful a connection online and clarified that it "does not make oregon administer program oregon survey guides." O’Hare besides said NYSED would "continue to show and instrumentality due enactment arsenic needed."

In effect to a Fox News Digital petition for comment, O’Hare seemed to instrumentality a swipe astatine critics, saying NYSED takes "issue with anyone attempting to cloak misinformation successful the guise of combating antisemitism. That’s not advocacy, it’s manipulation."

Despite the schoolhouse territory and NYSED statements connected the issue, the survey usher has drawn backlash from some sides of the aisle with Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., and Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., condemning the world materials. 

Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., speaks onstage astatine the March For Israel astatine the National Mall connected Nov. 14, 2023 successful Washington, D.C.  (Noam Galai/Getty Images)

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Torres said the usher "demonizes Zionism" portion failing to "label arsenic utmost the anti-Zionist ideology that inspired the October 7th massacre—the content that Jews should beryllium violently expelled from the onshore of Israel."

"Anti-Israel indoctrination nether the guise of world acquisition is 1 of the pathologies of modern education," Torres wrote successful a station connected X.

Stefanik — who immoderate judge is preparing to motorboat a bid for New York politician — slammed N.Y. Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democrats.

"This New York State Regent Exam is simply a disgraceful illustration of the rampant and persistent indoctrination of our children successful the K-12 acquisition strategy perpetrated by extremist far-left Democrats," Stefanik said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. She besides posted a similar connection connected X, claiming the "aging antisemitism successful New York is appeased and promoted by Kathy Hochul and her failing antisemitic NY Democrat Party."

House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, left, and Representative Elise Stefanik, a Republican from New York, during a quality league extracurricular the US Capitol successful Washington, DC, US, connected Thursday, May 16, 2024.  (Allison Robbert/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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In effect to a Fox News Digital petition for remark connected the survey materials, Hochul's bureau said that the NYSED was liable for the Regents Exam. However, they besides noted Hochul's repeated condemnations of antisemitism and actions taken to combat it, including convening "the first-ever acme connected antisemitism successful education."

Touro Institute connected Human Rights and the Holocaust Director Anne Bayefsky said that, "such indoctrination perpetuates antisemitism." She slammed the usher for teaching hatred implicit "tolerance, respect and coexistence."

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"Anti-Zionism is simply a signifier of antisemitism due to the fact that it teaches that Jewish self-determination is simply a incorrect — alternatively of the realization of a basal quality right. It is clip to link the dots betwixt teaching hatred wrong the schools and the unit connected our streets," Bayefsky told Fox News Digital.

As of this writing, the archetypal root of the survey usher remains unclear, with neither NYSED nor the schoolhouse territory attributing it to anyone successful particular. According to Michelle Herman, a genitor astatine Half Hollow Hills High School East, 1 teacher who distributed the worldly did not recognize what was successful it and has since apologized. Herman emphasized that she does not blasted the teacher for the guide.