House Committee Probing NEA’s Past Ties To Anti-Semitism

The House Committee on Education and Workforce has opened an investigation into whether the National Education Association is “contributing to antisemitism among its members and in classrooms across the United States,” according to a letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Committee chairman Tim Walberg (R., Mich.) wrote he is “gravely concerned about antisemitic content in the NEA’s 2025 handbook and the NEA Representative Assembly’s vote in July 2025 to ban materials by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL),” in a Thursday letter sent to NEA president Rebecca Pringle.

The investigation comes after a wave of allegations of anti-Semitism against the nation’s largest teachers’ union.

In July, the NEA’s Representative Assembly passed a resolution to boycott the ADL’s Holocaust education materials after union delegates complained the ADL’s definition of anti-Semitism was too strong.

NEA leadership overturned the vote after public outcry, but lawmakers have cited the NEA’s 2025 handbook as further evidence the nation’s largest teachers’ union has embraced an extremist agenda.

The handbook, which outlines the NEA’s annual priorities and strategic goals, included plans to promote a version of Holocaust remembrance that does not specifically mention Jews. The handbook did, though, give a lengthy description of the NEA’s plans to “educate members and the general public about the history of the Palestinian Nakba,” described as the “forced, violent displacement and dispossession of at least 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland in 1948 during the establishment of Israel.”