The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored attempt to annihilate the Jewish people. That is a historical fact. It is not an opinion, not a footnote, and certainly not something that can be erased or rewritten. Yet, the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers’ union in the United States, is doing just that.

In its 2025 handbook, the NEA describes the Holocaust as a tragedy that took the lives of “more than 12 million victims of different faiths,” without a single mention of the six million Jews murdered simply for being Jewish. Instead, the union has chosen to dilute the truth and whitewash history in favor of a politically charged and factually misleading narrative. This is not just revisionism; it is moral failure.

At a time when anti-Semitism is surging across college campuses, city streets, and yes, public schools, the NEA has responded by pushing propaganda that omits the central victims of the Holocaust and paints Israel as a colonial aggressor. While the union has ample time to promote “Nakba education” and redefine anti-Zionism, it has chosen to turn its back on the core historical reality of Jewish persecution. This is not education. It is indoctrination.

No teacher, no public employee, and no union member should be compelled to fund or associate with an organization that promotes extremism or erases history to serve a political agenda.

Americans for Fair Treatment (AFFT) believes that every public employee, whether a teacher, school staffer, or government worker, has the constitutional right to choose whether to join a union. For too long, government unions like the NEA have assumed their members agree with their radical positions simply by virtue of employment. That is not freedom. That is coercion.

The NEA’s priorities, as outlined in its own handbook, are not the priorities of most educators or most Americans. The fact that the union’s leadership is more concerned with promoting a distorted narrative about Israel than with honoring the memory of six million murdered Jews should be a wake-up call to every dues-paying member.

To the educators and public employees across the country: you have a choice. You can stand up for truth, for integrity, and for the right to dissent. It’s time to leave the NEA behind.