On May 12, 2022, The Deborah Project filed a civil rights lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles.
Concerned Jewish Parents and Teachers of Los Angeles, et al, v. Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium, et al., 2:22-CV-03243-FMO-PVC, C.D. Cal.   Our case seeks to stop the use of profoundly antisemitic/anti-Zionist teaching materials from being used in the Los Angeles public-school system, and to enforce California law requiring that all public school teaching materials be made public.
Currently the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium is peddling to different school districts across California, including the one in Los Angeles, the same hateful material that was rejected by the people and government of California prior to the passage of A.B. 101, the California law mandating an ethnic studies course for graduation from high school. Not only are the school districts themselves being approached, but LESMCC is providing training to pre-k to high school educators so that they will incorporate the hateful material in their classrooms. Please click this link to view the exhibits. Please click this link to view the Second Amended Complaint as filed.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE DEBORAH PROJECT

The opinion released on November 30, by the court in Concerned Jewish Parents v. Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium, et al, is deeply flawed, as it ignores and indeed contradicts crucial allegations in Plaintiffs’ Complaint including the explicit statements that the Liberated materials are being used in LAUSD classrooms, fails to address arguments plaintiffs made in their briefs, and even ignores binding precedent from the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.  We are in the midst of soaring antisemitism in education throughout the US, and this is no time for anyone—much less a federal court—to allow publicly funded elementary and secondary schools to be used to indoctrinate children to hate the Jewish commitment to Israel.  Contrary to the opinion just released, that’s not “education” about a “controversial” issue.  It’s prejudice pure and simple. It hurts everyone—Jews whose commitments via their ethnicity and shared ancestry are demonized, and non-Jews who are taught to hate those Jews for their commitment.  And it’s illegal.  We are confident that this decision will be reversed on appeal.