Report: Antisemites, including designated terror group, ‘infiltrated’ teachers’ union, NYC public schools

Foreign actors and radical activists, one with a U.S. terror designation, have infiltrated New York City’s public school system to spread bias and hatred against Jews.

So warns a report previewed exclusively by the New York Post.

At the very top of this activist network sits a New York City teachers’ union, according to a graphic in the study, which shows that the union may have been materially supported by that designated terrorist organization.

“It is not legal to knowingly take financial or material support from a terror org in exchange for services or goods,” the report’s authors told The Lion.  

The report says radical teachers’ groups such as NYC Educators for Palestine have colluded with foreign organizations to bring “radical, anti-American ideologies” into schools, said the Post. 

The report was co-written by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) and the advocacy group New York City Public School (NYCPS) Alliance.  

“The report exposes how the Department of Education’s vetted resources enable radical sympathizers to shape young minds with biased information,” said Tova Plaut, a DOE pre-K coordinator and co-founder of NYCPS Alliance. 

A graphic of the relationships between the various groups shows the Movement of Rank-and-File Educators (MOVE) at the top. 

MOVE is a caucus group made up of teachers from the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), a union that represents a majority of teachers in New York City.  

MOVE echoes communist calls for “liberation” reminiscent of the 1970s radical social justice movement. 

“We call for the dismantling of corporate driven high-stakes testing that is rooted in racism and eugenics,” said the MOVE website. “Our classrooms should be centers of liberation that help students celebrate their full humanity.” 

MOVE calls prisons “a vestige of legalized slavery in the United States,” and supports the demands of Black Lives Matter (BLM). 

Resources for MOVE come from UFT and are also funneled upward from education activists organizations, according to the graphic. 

Those activist organizations have ties to progressive billionaire George Soros’ Open Society and another Soros funded operation, The Tides, a dark money group that washes money from progressive donors to radical movements such as BLM, the Green New Deal and other authoritarian social justice schemes. 

Other activist organizations represented on the chart funneling resources up to the union’s MOVE organization allegedly received support from Communist China, Qatar and The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). 

That last group could be thorny because the PFLP, a Marxist-Leninist secular group, has been designated a terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department since Oct. 8, 1997.  

In 2019, a PFLP cell detonated an explosive device near an Israeli settlement, killing a 17-year-old girl and wounding her father and brother, according to the U.S. Director of National Intelligence. 

Any person who knowingly provides material support to a designated terrorist organization is subject to a fine and/or imprisonment – from 20 years to life. 

With renewed emphasis on domestic sources of terror, it could spell trouble for New York City’s largest teachers union. 

The report calls on New York City’s Department of Education to review its curriculum, put a new emphasis on combating antisemitism, while increasing the oversight of foreign funding of schools, said the Post. 

“If these ideas are left unchecked, they will be internalized by a new generation of students, who will then graduate, attend university, vote, enter the workforce, and raise families of their own, further embedding antisemitic beliefs into wider American society,” the NCRI and NYC Public Schools Alliance told the Post.