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** CA Teacher Used Anti-Semitic Turkish Government Propaganda in Holocaust Lesson
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** Her union targeted a Jewish board member.
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By Sara Dogan

In a case so extreme that even ultra-woke Santa Clara, California saw fit to condemn it, a California school district has upheld a charge of professional misconduct against a public high school teacher who showed her class an anti-Semitic video produced by the Turkish government during a lesson on the Holocaust.

The teacher in question is Kauser Adenwala, a Muslim, who in March 2024 was teaching World History at Wilcox High School in the Santa Clara Unified School District. During a unit on the Holocaust and World War II, Adenwala showed her class a two minute video ([link removed]) that was produced by TRT World ([link removed]) , an English-language channel of the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, which is owned by the Turkish government.

The video ([link removed]) itself is a despicable and mendacious piece of Jew hating propaganda that conflates the death of six million Jews during the Nazi regime with Israel’s defensive war against the terror group Hamas in Gaza. It features a Jewish woman named Marione Ingraham who has taken it upon herself to hold daily protests of Israel’s purported “genocide” in Gaza in front of the White House.

“What the children in Gaza are going through is what I went through in terms of hunger and bombs falling on us,” states Ingraham, who identifies herself as a Holocaust survivor. “As a Jew, I find it horrific. I’m actually ashamed sometimes to acknowledge that I belong to the tribe that is killing innocent people.”

The video intersperses images of skeletal Jewish concentration camp victims and masses of people stuffed into cattle cars with allegedly starving children in Gaza and suspected Hamas insurgents rounded up by the IDF during the Gaza war, attempting to draw a false equivalence between them.

In case viewers miss the point, Ingraham makes it directly. “All of my Jewish family was murdered, and it is not in their name that Israel is killing children,” she states. “What the children in Gaza are going through, is what I went through in terms of hunger and bombs falling on us.”

Ingraham’s self-directed Jew hatred and accusations of genocide against Israel may be a matter for psychological professionals. What they are not, is suitable material for a public high school discussion of the Holocaust.

Alarmed by their children’s reports of the one-sided history lesson, parents of Jewish students in the district raised their concerns with school district administrators through a grassroots group called the Bay Area Jewish Coalition (BAJC) which was created to fight increasing anti-Semitism in local public schools following Hamas’s October 7 massacre.

BAJC sent the school district a letter spelling out the consequences of allowing the teacher’s Jew hatred to proceed unchecked. “This video dangerously conflates the war in Gaza with the atrocities of the Holocaust,” the letter ([link removed]) read. “It puts all Jews in the position of the guilty and makes Jewish students feel uncomfortable among their peers.”

After a seven-month investigation, Santa Clara Unified School District finally concluded ([link removed]) in July 2025 that Adenwala had violated district policies on discrimination, on teaching about “controversial issues,” and the district’s professional standards which require educators to “exercise good judgment.”

“In considering the totality of the evidence, the investigator found it more likely than not that the content of the video in question promotes a discriminatory bias against Jewish students on the basis of their nationality,” states the school board’s determination ([link removed]) , adding that “A Jewish student would reasonably feel uncomfortable hearing this comparison during class.”

Nor is this the first time that Adenwala has faced discipline for her unprofessional conduct and her insistence on targeting Jews and their homeland of Israel. As JWeekly.com describes ([link removed]) :

In December 2023, during a lesson on human rights violations, Adenwala gave a presentation overwhelmingly critical of Israel called “Human rights abuses in Palestine”… It portrayed Israel as an authoritarian power, routinely oppressing non-Jews across the region, including in the West Bank, Gaza and within Israel proper. One slide claimed incorrectly that Israel is the “sole governing power” throughout most of the West Bank and Gaza. The same slide also alleged that Israel’s long-term goal is “Jewish Israeli control over demographics, political power, and land.”

In this earlier instance, SCUSD determined that Adenwala’s lecture violated district policies on teaching about controversial issues and assigned her to complete anti-discrimination training. It clearly did not have the desired effect.

Despite the repeated findings against her, Adenwala and the Islamist coalition backing her were not about to accept the school district’s disciplinary judgment without challenge.

“Adenwala had the strong backing of anti-Zionist groups, including local chapters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and Jewish Voice for Peace, which wrote a letter to the school district on her behalf,” reports ([link removed]) JWeekly.com. “A local chapter of the NAACP also backed her, as did her union.”

Aided by these organizations along with myriad ideologically-captured individuals who spoke before the school board, Adenwala formally appealed the school district’s finding of misconduct.

Even the appeal itself was tinged by Jew hatred. The California Teacher’s Association, the faculty union representing Adenwala, urged school board member Jodi Muirhead to recuse herself from ruling on the appeal because Muirhead is Jewish, echoing the anti-Semitic trope that Jews have ‘divided loyalties.’

“That request to recuse, that was personal. That was because I am Jewish and because I have friends who are Jewish and Israeli,” Muirhead commented. She refused to comply.

Despite the Islamist mob levying accusations of “weaponized anti-Semitism” and claims that the disciplinary ruling would “chill” discussion of Israel and Palestine, the Santa Clara School Board voted unanimously this month to uphold the initial finding of misconduct against teacher Kauser Adenwala. It is a rare win for Jewish students who far too often face anti-Semitism and discrimination in the classroom from the professionals charged with keeping them safe.

By Sara Dogan

One of the foremost principles of higher education is the pursuit of the truth through free and open discourse, no matter where it may lead. Yet over the past several decades, few places in America have become more hostile to free speech than our universities. These institutions of higher education have often lived up to their ivory tower reputation, becoming cloistered echo chambers of leftist thought where voicing a dissenting view is cause for abrupt dismissal or being hauled before a disciplinary board and sentenced to reeducation.

The last year has brought an apparent shift in these attitudes. In the wake of rising anti-Semitism and the pro-Hamas campus rallies and occupations that were sparked by the terror group’s October 7 massacre, university administrators seem to have had a sudden change of heart. Free speech, once considered suspect, is now declared to be of paramount importance to the healthy functioning of a university, even—or perhaps especially—when the group being targeted by it is Jews.

In defending Penn’s hosting of the Palestine Writes Literature Festival, which featured multiple speakers well-known for their anti-Semitism, Former Penn President Liz Magill released a statement naming free expression as one of the university’s foremost values. “We unequivocally – and emphatically – condemn antisemitism as antithetical to our institutional values,” she wrote. “As a university, we also fiercely support the free exchange of ideas as central to our educational mission. This includes the expression of views that are controversial and even those that are incompatible with our institutional values.”

Columbia University’s former president Minouche Shafik, who resigned following her failure to rein in pro-Hamas demonstrations on campus, similarly pledged that the university administration “are committed to academic freedom and to ensuring that all members of our community have the right to speak their minds” and argued before Congress that “We believe we can confront antisemitism and provide a safe campus environment for our community while simultaneously supporting rigorous academic exploration and freedom.”

Responding to pro-Hamas protests on campus, the University of Louisville’s former President Kim Schatzel described why they must be permitted to continue, saying, ([link removed]) “The answer is that as a public university, the University of Louisville’s restrictions on such speech—no matter how offensive the content—would constitute a violation of the First Amendment to the Constitution that protects free speech…”

These sentiments might forecast a step in the right direction—if only they were consistent. But at far too many campuses, the same administrators that have defended the free speech rights of Jew-haters, Hamas supporters, or radical gender activists have blatantly failed to secure the same rights for those with opposing views.

It is time that we hold these university administrators to account for their double standards in protecting free speech on campus and withdraw federal funding from those who do not immediately rectify this duplicity.

The following report names the most egregious perpetrators of these double standards in free expression as Ivory Tower Hypocrites. These are universities whose leaders have permitted woke leftist activists, including those affiliated with the terrorist group Hamas, to run roughshod over campus rules and violate codes of conduct—not to mention moral decency—with impunity, while failing to extend even basic free speech protections to students and faculty with opposing views. The rule of the mob has no place in academia.

We call on the universities implicated in this report to take immediate action to review and standardize their policies on free expression to protect all viewpoints equally and to further institute harsh penalties for those who disrupt organized events or speakers. We further call on all alumni of these universities to withhold any further donations until they have been sufficiently convinced that these severe defects in equal protection have been remedied. And we urge President Trump and Congress to investigate these clear violations of federal law and withhold funding to those universities who fail to uphold equal standards in protecting free speech.

#1: University of California-Los Angeles
#2: Columbia University
#3: University of Pennsylvania
#4: Georgetown University
#5: University of Louisville
#6: Wake Forest University
#7: University of Nevada-Las Vegas
#8: University of Illinois-Chicago
#9: George Mason University
#10: University of Washington

Read the full report HERE ([link removed]) .

The Top Ten Jew-Hating Academic Departments in American Universities

#1: San Francisco State University, College of Ethnic Studies

#2: University of California-Santa Cruz, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department

#3: Columbia University, Center for Palestine Studies

#4: University of Pennsylvania, Middle East Center

#5: University of Minnesota, Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies

#6: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Center for Middle East and Islamic Studies

#7: University of Colorado-Boulder, Ethnic Studies Department

#8: University of Maryland-College Park, Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

#9: University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign, Department of Latina/Latino Studies

#10: Northwestern University, Asian American Studies Program

Introduction:

Ever since October 7^th, 2023, when Hamas launched its barbaric attack on innocent Israeli civilians—slaughtering over a thousand innocent people, raping and mutilating women, massacring children and the elderly for kicks—the world has borne witness to the atrocious Jew hatred housed in our most prestigious colleges and universities.

Across the nation, on nearly every major university campus, students took to the streets—not to decry Hamas’s brutality but to applaud it as a valid act of “resistance” against their “colonial oppressors.” Chanting genocidal slogans—“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” “Intifada, Intifada,” “Resistance is Justified, When People are Occupied”—these students, often accompanied by faculty, cheered for the destruction of the world’s only Jewish state.

The revelation that American campuses are hotspots of Jew hatred may seem sudden for some, but in truth this hatred and prejudice has been percolating for many years, aided and abetted by the universities themselves. For the past two decades, the David Horowitz Freedom Center has shone a rare spotlight on the genocidal Jew hatred emanating from our college campuses and raised the alarm. Now, the world at large is witnessing how much ground we have already given up in this fight.

In the midst of this turmoil, the presidents of our major universities have found themselves trapped by their own complicity, forced to condemn the undeniable Jew hatred that roils their campuses while attempting to obscure their own role in abetting it.

As the Freedom Center has relentlessly documented, American universities have played an undeniable role in funding and providing a veneer of legitimacy to anti-Semitic student organizations like the Hamas-funded Students for Justice in Palestine and the Muslim Students Association. What has received less attention—but should in fact be highlighted as American universities’ worst offense—is the Jew hatred promoted by official departments and institutes of the universities themselves.

Millions of dollars in both public and private money is funneled into academic departments and centers, housed at America’s most prestigious universities. These official organs of the university actively promote Jew hatred, glorify in Hamas’s violence against Israeli civilians, and spread genocidal lies about Israel being an “apartheid” and “settler-colonialist” state. They invite speakers and host conferences whose entire purpose is to cast aspersions on the Jews and their homeland of Israel.

Whole academic departments and institutes, under the official auspices of their prestigious universities, violate every principle of academic integrity to cast their lot with the barbaric Hamas terrorists in order to bring about the destruction of Israel—all while the presidents of those same universities declare themselves horrified by growing anti-Semitism on campus. They fuel the atrocious Jew hatred that has overtaken both students and faculty on campus and turned the halls of academia into training grounds for the next generation of jihadists.

The following report will expose the blatant hypocrisy of American universities and their leaders, who express horror at the outbreak of anti-Semitism on campus yet spend millions funding academic centers and departments which actively promote that same Jew hatred.

We call on the universities implicated in this report to take immediate action to discipline these academic centers and departments which openly defy university policy to promote Jew hatred. If they should fail to do so, we urge Congress to withhold all federal funding until they eliminate this cancer in their midst.

Read the full report HERE. ([link removed])

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