‘Threatening and Intimidating’: Largest Teachers’ Union in United States Hit With Federal Antisemitism Complaint

Washington Free Beacon ^ | 4/5/26 | Adam Credo

[Eleutheria5]

Examples in the complaint, filed with the EEOC, include union members laughing and clapping at the mention of an 82-year-old Jewish woman killed in a terror attack

The National Education Association (NEA) was hit with a federal complaint Monday alleging that it subjected Jewish members to an antisemitic environment, according to a copy of the complaint shared with the Washington Free Beacon.

The complaint, filed by the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) , alleges that the nation’s largest teachers’ union allowed activists within the organization to harass Jewish members. At the NEA’s 2025 Representative Assembly—the group’s annual gathering—for instance, the union debated a resolution banning materials from the Anti-Defamation League from appearing in classrooms. During that debate, "delegates aligned with anti-Israel advocacy physically positioned themselves near Jewish Affairs Caucus members, shouted down Jewish participants, and created an atmosphere in which Jewish delegates reasonably feared retaliation and physical harm," the complaint details.

In some cases, activists "sat or stood so close to Jewish members that they felt unable to clap, which was required to vote, without risking physical contact and confrontation."

When one Jewish NEA member spoke against the resolution and mentioned the 82-year-old woman killed during a terrorist firebombing attack in Boulder, Colo., last year, her remarks were "met with laughter and clapping by anti-Semitic participants in the assembly." Witnesses, the complaint reads, "described the collective, celebratory reactions to the attack and murder of Jews as threatening and intimidating due to the forceful nature of the gestures which were directed specifically toward Jewish delegates."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: eeoc; intimidation; nea; threats

[Eleutheria5]

These a-holes teach your children.

[dforest]

Shame teachers spend such a tiny amount of time teaching kids the basics. Schools are nothing more than marxist indoctrination centers.

The US education system has been an expensive and disgraceful failure for years now.

We don’t need the NEA.

[unixfox]

Schools are nothing more than marxist indoctrination centers.

By design.

[Da Coyote]

Q: What’s the difference between a teacher’s union and a giant, steaming pile of cow poo?

A: Thinking, thinking............................

Back in the dinosaur days, I was fortunate enough to have great teachers and I thank them all for their time and efforts. Interesting, though, that none of them had blue hair, tats, nose rings, or silly ideas about socialism.

[George from New England]

bidens doj would never have touched this

[ChessExpert]

Government teachers should not have a union. For that matter, there should be no government teachers.

For some reason I sense that a lawsuit between the “Jewish Affairs Caucus” and the NEA is just a liberal catfight. Liberals fighting liberals is good news, but this is still not worthy of popcorn.

[Eleutheria5]

They’re eating each other. Maybe not worthy of popcorn, but at least a drinking game.

[Eleutheria5]

Government workers altogether should not have a union. They pay their nominal employer to collectively bargain with them, and then pay the taxes that pay their own salaries.