FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 19, 2019 Contact Ilya Feoktistov: [email protected] NEWTON RESIDENTS SUE CITY’S SCHOOL COMMITTEE, SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, PRINCIPALS, AND TEACHERS FOR DISCRIMINATION AGAINST JEWS AND ISRAELIS Ideological / Political Curriculum Teaches Propaganda Instead of Facts NEWTON, MASSACHUSETTS. On March 12, 2019, Newton taxpayers filed a lawsuit in Middlesex

Shouts of “Fire the Superintendent!” Angry parents and citizens dominated the first hour of a scheduled Newton Public School board meeting on Monday night, in an effort to show their disgust and rage at the continued teaching of bias against Israel that has been the focus of controversy in this leafy, heavily Jewish

The Jewish community was promised by the Newton School Committee that all offending Middle East curricula would be removed from the schools until new materials, vetted by professionals, could be secured or created. This promise proved to be false. APT’s Public Request for Information revealed that the same sort of materials we

Boston University Workshop for High Schools Whitewashes Terrorism, Encourages Jewish Students to Empathize with Hamas, Promotes Palestinian State. April 23nd 2015 Contact: Dr. Charles Jacobs, President Americans for Peace and Tolerance – 617 835 3584 Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) today released a video, ‘Axis of Bias @ Weston

Boston University Workshop for High Schools Whitewashes Terrorism, Encourages Jewish Students to Empathize with Hamas, Promotes Palestinian State. April 23nd 2015 Contact: Dr. Charles Jacobs, President Americans for Peace and Tolerance – 617 835 3584 Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) today released a video, ‘Axis of Bias @ Weston

What is the “Axis of Hope” at Boston University? Axis of Hope is a non-profit organization founded by Boston University Professor Carl Hobert in 2002. Its stated idealistic mission is: “developing in young adults an understanding of alternative, non-violent approaches to resolving complex conflicts locally, nationally and internationally.” Axis of

Reasons Why Boston University’s “Whose Jerusalem?” Workshop for High Schools Is Biased and Politicized Instead of teaching students how to understand the complex hundred-year-old conflict between Arabs and Jews, Axis of Hope is encouraging teenagers to come up with political solutions based on misleading teaching materials. Axis of Hope founder

APT President Charles Jacobs presents data on anti-Israel education at Newton Public Schools in Massachusetts and at the Friends Seminary in New York.

New information has surfaced regarding the Newton Public School controversy. Compelled to comply with state law, the school’s administrators recently were forced to release an initial batch of 9th- and 10th-grade history lesson plans used to teach about the Middle East. Most of the information, initially withheld from the public

Lessons whitewash Hamas, promote the destruction of the Jewish state as a legitimate solution to the Arab-Israel conflict. Americans for Peace and Tolerance (APT) has placed a two-page ad in the Jewish Advocate rebuking Boston’s Jewish leaders for assuring parents and tax-payers that there is no problem with anti-Semitism and