( JTA ) — The Anti-Defamation League has called on a local California school board to apologize after two of its members attacked the Jewish community in comments at a meeting last week.
The controversy is the latest front in the yearslong battle over ethnic studies classes at California schools . At the meeting on Wednesday, the Pajaro Valley Unified School District board unanimously approved an ethnic studies teacher training contract with an organization whose leader has ties to anti-Zionist activists.
The board previously let a contract with the organization, Community Responsive Education, lapse over antisemitism concerns but faced pushback from local students, educators and activists, as well as from the organization’s leader, who played a role in devising a draft ethnic studies curriculum for the state that many Jewish organizations denounced. Since then, the board’s composition has changed …