Just hours after TriStar Daily exposed the fact that the NEA 2025 Handbook erased Jewish from their reference to the Holocaust, the NEA suddenly erased the handbook itself from their own site! In an amazing display of anti-Semitism the National Education Association (NEA), the largest teachers’ union in America had rewritten history in its 2025 handbook. https://tristardaily.com/national-education-association-nea-2025-handbook-erases-jews-from-the-holocaust/
In its 2025 Handbook the NEA said the Holocaust took the lives of “12 million victims from different faiths” and completely failed to mention Jews despite the fact that at least half of those victims were Jewish.
The NEA claimed Israel was founded through “forced, violent displacement” despite the fact that any accurate historical review would completely repudiate that claim.
The NEA handbook made no mention of 850,000 Jews expelled from Arab lands. In fact, the NEA didn’t just ignore Jewish suffering tied to the Holocaust and the establishment of Israel, they rewrote the Jewish people as the villains.
The handbook is a 427-page document focused on NEA’s organizational structure, policies, resolutions, and business items, with limited historical references. https://www.nea.org/sites/
In New Business Item 83 (page 355 in the NEA 2025 handbook), the NEA promoted International Holocaust Remembrance Day and stated: “NEA shall promote the celebration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27 annually on its website and through other appropriate media to recognize the more than 12 million victims of the Holocaust from different faiths, ethnicities, races, political beliefs, genders, and gender identification, abilities/disabilities, and other targeted characteristics.”
Historically, the Holocaust resulted in about 6 million Jewish deaths (the primary target of Nazi genocide) out of an estimated 11-17 million total victims, including Roma, disabled people, political dissidents, and others. The handbook’s “more than 12 million” figure roughly fits within broader victim estimates, but the omission of Jews in the main descriptive item (NBI 83) underlined the NEA’s attempt to erase the fact that Jews were clearly the primary target of the Nazi Holocaust.
The fact that the NEA has now hidden their own handbook from view, underlines their recognition that the antisemitic provisions in the handbook were completely inappropriate. As one educator noted: “if there wasn’t anything wrong with their presentation about Israel and the Jews then why have they erased it from their site?”
Fortunately, the key pages are still available for you here. And the handbook was downloaded below for our readers to review in detail.
Steve Gill is a national and international political commentator and analyst. He is the publisher of TriStar Daily. The full text of the NEA 2025 Handbook is available here: https://www.nea.org/sites/
