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Teacher union boss Randi Weingarten accused of ignoring antisemitism in bombshell letter
The New York Post ^ | 10/24/2025 | Josh Christenson

Posted on 10/24/2025 8:12:15 AM PDT by thegagline

A top deputy to American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten has been accused of “fostering a culture of anti-semitism that alienates Jewish members” by a key Republican senator.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), the head of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, noted in a Thursday letter to Weingarten obtained by The Post that AFT vice president Todd Wolfson hosted a “Scholasticide in Palestine” webinar in March that characterized anti-Israel protests on college campuses — which have included harassment and intimidation of Jewish students and faculty — as “antigenocide speech.”

[T]he Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Academic Engagement Network (AEN), Hillel and other Jewish groups slammed the virtual seminar for promoting “a one-sided and inflammatory narrative” on Israeli-Palestinian issues — and refusing to even mention Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack.

Wolfson — an associate professor of journalism and media studies at Rutgers University who is currently on leave — oversaw the seminar in his capacity as president of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), a position he holds concurrent with his AFT post.

*** He [Wolfson]has also accused the Trump administration of engaging in “weaponization of anti-semitism” against US universities, called for an American arms embargo against Israel and decried Vice President JD Vance as a “fascist.” ***

It is clear that Jewish members are not being defended. Jewish faculty members deserve to carry out their work free from discrimination,” the Louisiana Republican wrote. “As an association with a national presence, it is concerning that AFT has not only failed to help solve this problem but has made it worse by allowing Dr. Wolfson to continue to serve in a leadership role.” ***

In September, an ADL/AEN survey found “73.2% of the surveyed faculty reported observing anti-Jewish activities or statements from faculty, administrators, or staff***

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antisemiticjews; antisemitism; closekthru12; closepublicschools; education; randiweingarten; toddwolfson; unions; weinstein; wolfson
It is interesting that Bill Cassidy is more concerned about antisemitism than Weingarten and Wolfson, who are both Jewish.
1 posted on 10/24/2025 8:12:15 AM PDT by thegagline
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To: thegagline

Oh, a “bombshell”? Must be important.


2 posted on 10/24/2025 8:12:50 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: thegagline

Randi is too stoopid to understand what he’s talking about.


3 posted on 10/24/2025 8:18:06 AM PDT by OKSooner (XX XY)
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To: thegagline

[Educational tidbit of the day]

WIKI

Chaim Mordechaj Rumkowski (February 27, 1877 – August 28, 1944) was the head of the Jewish Council of Elders in the Łódź Ghetto appointed by Nazi Germany during the German occupation of Poland.

As the head of the Judenrat, Rumkowski is remembered for his speech Give Me Your Children, delivered at a time when the Germans demanded his compliance with the deportation of 20,000 children to Chełmno extermination camp. In August 1944, Rumkowski and his family joined the last transport to Auschwitz, and he was murdered there on August 28, 1944, by Jewish Sonderkommando inmates who beat him to death as revenge for his role in the Holocaust.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaim_Rumkowski


4 posted on 10/24/2025 8:27:47 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: thegagline

**Weingarten and Wolfson, who are both Jewish.**

“....and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are of the synagogue of Satan.” Rev. 2:9

“....them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie...” Rev 3:9


5 posted on 10/24/2025 8:28:55 AM PDT by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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To: Brian Griffin

Interesting. So Soros wasn’t the only Jewish collaborator.


6 posted on 10/24/2025 8:31:25 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Trump & Vance, 2024! (Formerly) Goldwater & Thomas Sowell)
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To: thegagline

“’It was forbidden to gather more than three or five people. It was punishable by death, but we were sometimes even fifteen teenagers, and we were then in Palestine for this hour with the organization. This was the land of Israel; we were not in the ghetto. I never had such marvelous hours. I ran to my organization and there I forgot. I forgot my mother. I forgot my brother. It’s not nice, but I really forgot. The life was different there. There, I saw the blue sky with stars. The sky of the land of Israel.’
—Jutta Szmirgeld, age 14”

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/give-me-your-children-voices-from-the-lodz-ghetto


7 posted on 10/24/2025 8:37:51 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: brownsfan
Oh, a “bombshell”? Must be important.

I am beginning to hate that word. It seems to be meaningless.

8 posted on 10/24/2025 8:41:36 AM PDT by Mark17 (Retired USAF air traffic controller. 🎤 Father of USAF ISR pilot. ✈️ Aviation is in our DNA)
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To: thegagline

Rumkowski underestimated the evil in the Nazis and Germans.

Weingarten, Starmer, Macron, and Trump have underestimated the evil in HAMAS and Gazans.


9 posted on 10/24/2025 8:48:01 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: thegagline

TIL that 39% of American Jews are “anti-semitic”...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/10/06/jewish-americans-israel-poll-gaza/


10 posted on 10/24/2025 8:58:26 AM PDT by nitzy (I don’t trust good looking country singers or fat doctors.)
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To: thegagline

WIKI

Hans Biebow (December 18, 1902 – June 23, 1947) was the chief of German Nazi administration of the Łódź Ghetto in occupied Poland.

Biebow’s early life is summarized by the following curriculum vitae which he submitted to the German Ghetto Administration (German: Gettoverwaltung) on May 10, 1940:

I was born December 18, 1902, in Bremen, the son of Julius Biebow, an insurance company director. After graduating from secondary school, I entered my father’s company – the district branch of the Stuttgart Insurance Company – as an apprentice, planning on eventually assuming my father’s post. I received thorough training, remaining there an additional year as an employee. Since the insurance business had come almost completely to a standstill during the inflation, I then gave up my position to join the cereal and foodstuff bank in Bremen as a trainee. From there I went into the cereal business and stayed in this trade until I was 22. I should mention that I managed a large branch of an Eichsfeld cereal company in Göttingen for half a year. When the inflation ended, I became particularly interested in the reviving coffee trade. After a short training period with a business friend of my father’s, I opened my own business with very little capital, building it, in the course of 18 years, into one of the largest such companies in Germany. At the end I employed about 250 workers and office personnel.

After working as a coffee importer in his hometown of Bremen, Biebow became the overseer of the Litzmannstadt Ghetto. He realized that the ghetto could make a profit for the Germans if it were converted into essentially a slave labor complex.

Biebow exercised his control in part through a Jewish administration headed by Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski. Rumkowski believed that the Jews could survive if they produced cheap, essential goods for the Nazis. Biebow profited substantially from the sale of the products of Jewish labour, as well as from property seized from Jews. He was directly responsible for starving the population, and he assisted the Gestapo in rounding up Jews for deportation. The ghetto factories produced products such as boots for German soldiers and were profitable for the Germans because the Jews, cut off from all resources, worked for wages that consisted only of bread, soup, and other essentials.

The inhabitants endured four years of starvation, illness and overcrowding before being sent to the extermination camps of Chełmno and Auschwitz. Among the Nazi hierarchy, Biebow was an early exponent of using the Jews as cheap labor rather than killing them, but he readily accepted the extermination policy. Survivors report he encouraged the last surviving Jews of the ghetto in the summer of 1944 to board the trains to Auschwitz with a speech that began “My Jews...” and promised them work in the West. Of the 245,000 inhabitants, 877 Jews remained when the Łódź ghetto was liberated by Soviet forces on January 19, 1945.

In the days just before the liberation of Łódź, Biebow ordered large burial pits to be dug in the local cemetery, intending for the Gestapo to execute the 877 Jews, who served as a clean-up crew in the ghetto. This might have been an attempt by Biebow to eliminate witnesses to his role in the atrocities.

Biebow was able to escape into hiding in Germany in 1945 after the unconditional surrender, but was recognized by a survivor of the ghetto and subsequently arrested in Bremen. After he was extradited by the Allies to Łódź, he stood trial from April 23 to April 30, 1947. He was found guilty on all counts and executed by hanging on June 23, 1947.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Biebow


11 posted on 10/24/2025 8:59:51 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: thegagline

“Todd Wolfson is the president of the American Association of University Professors, a nonprofit organization of higher education faculty and other academic professionals.”

“Prior to his work as an academic union leader, Wolfson worked as a community and labor organizer in Philadelphia.”

https://www.aft.org/about/leadership/todd-wolfson


12 posted on 10/24/2025 9:05:12 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: thegagline

A real circle of evil going on here. Teachers Union, thugs and perverts.


13 posted on 10/24/2025 9:14:36 AM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Zuriel

Yep


14 posted on 10/24/2025 10:56:28 AM PDT by cowboyusa ( YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA AND HE WILL HAVE NO OTHER GODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: thegagline

Cassidy was one of the 3 RINO’s who voted to impeach Trump.


15 posted on 10/24/2025 11:16:03 AM PDT by jimwatx
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