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Teacher showed video promoting ‘bias toward Jewish students,’ Bay Area district probe finds

(JNS) — The Santa Clara Unified School District determined that one of its teachers violated district policy by showing a video to her class in March 2024 that compared Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza to the Holocaust, according to a document that JNS viewed.

The district, which educates about 15,300 students in the San Francisco area, wrote in a July 25 letter to the Bay Area Jewish Coalition Education and Advocacy that the video featured a Holocaust survivor, who said that “Israel is killing childr...