There is a sickness in California’s schools. It is an old sickness, the oldest, but it has found new life inside the institutions that are supposed to guard our children against it. The sickness is Jew-hatred. And the state’s response has become a sickness of its own. It is a sickness of cowardice, of moral confusion, and of siding with the aggressor against the victim. A lawsuit has now been filed to force the state to do what any decent person knows it should have been doing all along: protect children from those who hate them.
We have to call things by their real names. This isn’t about sensitivity training. It’s about evil. A seventh-grade girl is hunted in a hallway by boys screaming “We want you to die.” That’s not bullying. That’s a preview of a pogrom. And the school’s silence is a message to every other student: this is fine.
Then you have the teacher, paid with tax dollars, who decides to torment a 12-year-old boy because of his Star of David. She invents infractions. She falsifies reports. The school’s big solution is to yank the boy from her class. He’s punished. She’s protected. This isn’t a solution. It’s the administration taking the side of the bully against the child.
This is the pattern. It is a moral inversion. A high school chemistry teacher celebrates the mass murder of Jews on October 7th with a mocking note on his whiteboard. A Jewish student is, understandably, horrified. The school’s response? The student is forced out of his honors class. The teacher who celebrated mass murder keeps his job. The message is unmistakable: if you are a Jew, your pain does not matter. Your presence is the problem. Your removal is the solution.
This is how a society begins to rot. Not just from the presence of evil, but from the accommodation of it. The lawsuit calls this segregation. And it is. When you remove Jewish children from classrooms so that an anti-Jewish ideology can be taught without objection, you are not managing a conflict. You are cleansing the room. The term for that is Judenfrei.
The ideology is being taught. In Oakland, teachers held an unapproved “teach-in” where children were told that “a free Palestine means the annihilation of Jews.” Fifth graders were filmed reciting what they had learned, one child looking into the camera and saying the Jews “basically just stole the Palestinians’ land” and that America is “helping the bad guys.” The district called the teach-in unauthorized. It disciplined no one.
In Los Angeles, a teacher ran a similar event over the objections of more than a thousand parents. LAUSD’s own Office of the Superintendent later admitted the materials were not “objective, as had been represented.” The slides justified the October 7th massacre. They recycled old tropes about Zionist money and power. No one was held accountable there either.
California will say these are local failures. A few rogue teachers. Isolated incidents. That answer is a lie, and the people giving it know it. The state has been warned about this, repeatedly, by parents, by Jewish organizations, by legislators. The California Constitution places the duty for equal education on the state. The Department of Education has the authority to investigate, to sanction, to compel districts to act. It has not used that authority in any way that has changed anything. The complaint process parents are told to use is described in the lawsuit as “glacial and opaque,” with remedies so toothless they amount to permission for the next offense.
The families suing are not asking for money, they simply want the state to enforce its own laws. They want officials to investigate what has been documented, stop the use of antisemitic propaganda as curriculum, and protect Jewish children the same way they would protect any other child. That is not a radical demand. It is the minimum. The fact that it takes a lawsuit to get there tells you everything you need to know about how far California has fallen.
