A Washington-based human rights organization today filed a federal complaint against the National Education Association (NEA), alleging the teachers’ union discriminated against its Jewish members and promoted a hostile environment throughout K–12 public schools.
The Louis D. Brandeis Center Coalition to Combat Anti-Semitism filed the charge with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It cites several anti-Semitic incidents that took place during the NEA’s annual meeting last year, in addition to a pattern of discrimination where the union, with more than 3 million members, denied Jewish members opportunities for leadership, mentorship, grievance, and training.
During the July 2025 NEA Representative Assembly event in Portland, Oregon, anti-Israel delegates disrupted and intimidated a speaker who tried to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the union’s Jewish Affairs Caucus, according to the coalition. They also surrounded and shouted at Jewish delegates and applauded and laughed at remarks about a former member, an 82-year-old Holocaust survivor, who was murdered in an anti-Semitic attack in Colorado, the complaint alleged….