The Freedom Foundation is using spurious charges of “antisemitism” to try to drag United Teachers Los Angeles through the mud in service of its anti-union political agenda.

In its lawsuit recently dismissed by Los Angeles District Court Judge Stephen Wilson, the FF’s litigants’ legal complaint opens with the thesis “UTLA supports calls for the destruction of Plaintiffs’ religious homeland, and promotes animosity and violence towards people of Jewish descent.” However, it never comes close to substantiating any of this.

Again and again the allegations boil down to the fact that most of the litigants’ UTLA colleagues and former colleagues simply don’t agree with the litigants’ views on the Israel-Gaza war. That’s not antisemitism.

Nonetheless, even though the FF, which vows to appeal its case to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and then to the U.S. Supreme Court, will continue to lose, for them, filing meritless suits based on spurious claims is a strategy. Their suits harass UTLA, waste teachers’ dues money, and gain them publicity.

In the wake of this defeat, FF’s Jeff Rhodes provides a laundry list of what he calls UTLA’s “anti-Jewish actions.” These claims are deceptive and misleading.

For example, Rhodes accuses UTLA of “consistently supporting, and many of its members concurrently belonging to, Union del Barrio, which has frequently called for the destruction of the state of Israel.”

What Union del Barrio actually does is denounce both Israeli and American government...

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