The Anti-Defamation League has been a ubiquitous presence in U.S. schools for forty years, pushing curriculum, direct programming, and teacher training into K-12 schools and increasingly into universities, often over the objections of students, parents, and educators. Now, the three million-member National Education Association has finally said no. In July 6 vote, the NEA’s 7,000-member Representative Assembly cut all ties with the ADL.
Several generations, probably, hundreds of years, at least. A minority of Jews tore up something that cannot be regenerated easily, while true antisemitism lives on for as long as Christianity exists.