Exclusive | Jewish legal group urges Trump to investigate DEI programs in K-12 schools for promoting antisemitism

A Jewish legal advocacy group is urging the Trump administration to launch a sweeping investigation and to halt federal funding to K-12 schools that are using DEI — diversity, equity and inclusion programs — to promote antisemitism.The Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law sent a bombshell 15-page letter to US Education Secretary Linda McMahon citing evidence of Jews being labeled as “inherently racist [and] oppressive” and claiming that Jewish students are being discriminated against to achieve DEI for other minority groups.The group said DEI programs fomenting Jew hatred both violate the 1964 civil rights law and President Trump’s Jan.20 executive order to ban such initiatives, which the commander in chief himself described as “illegal and immoral.”“If President Trump is serious about ending radical indoctrination in K-12 schooling, he should start with some of the antisemitic educators whom we have found,” said Kenneth Marcus, chairman & CEO of the Brandeis Center and former US assistant secretary of education.“Ironically, some of the worst antisemitism is coming from ‘progressive educators’ who purveying anti-Jewish hatred in the name of ‘liberated ethnic studies’ and social justice education,” Marcus told The Post.The April 28 letter to McMahon cites blatant examples of school officials and teachers bashing Israel and Jews, particularly in California, including:The civil rights group also said teachers’ unions in California and Massachusetts promote DEI-based, antisemitic teachings.And an unapproved course of study called “Teach Palestine” is spreading across the US “thanks to the teachers’ union,” the Brandeis Center lawyers said.The complaint claimed school districts are contracting with outside groups like the Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) and allowing them to “indoctrinate” students with their own DEI-based, antisemitic agendas.“We have evidence that California school districts in San Fr...