Bay Area District Advances Ethnic Studies Despite Jewish Objections

Campbell Union High School District trustees voted 5-0 to adopt “Voices: An Ethnic Studies Survey” for six years across a district serving 8,600 students. Jewish organizations and families argued that the district had not adequately reviewed supplemental materials or corrected earlier failures involving antisemitic and discriminatory instruction; district officials said the vote concerned the textbook itself and found no specific factual defect requiring rejection.

• The district operates six high schools in the San Jose area and is implementing a mandatory ethnic-studies course.
• California education officials previously found that district ethnic-studies materials discriminated against Jewish students and that the district inadequately addressed a separate antisemitic incident.
• Jewish-community critics said the adopted book marginalizes Jewish history and leaves teachers broad discretion to use supplemental material that trustees have not fully vetted.
• District leaders answered that the textbook does not focus on Jewish or Palestinian issues and that objections to its analytical framework do not by themselves establish bias.

The vote shows how local curriculum governance can lock contested frameworks into classrooms for years even after state findings establish prior harm to Jewish students. The decisive question is whether implementation oversight changes classroom content or merely documents problems after they recur.

Two Minnesota Democratic primaries on Tuesday will measure the reach of anti-Israel politics one week after Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan victory. In the open House race, the leading contenders have taken materially different positions on U.S. support for Israel; the Senate contest presents a less categorical divide but has still become a proxy fight over AIPAC and the party’s direction.

• Jewish Insider reports that former state Sen. Matt Little, the House-race frontrunner, is positioning himself as the field’s most hostile candidate on Israel policy.
• State Rep. Kaela Berg has called for a complete halt to U.S. taxpayer funding for Israel, while physician Matt Klein has defended continued aid.
• The Senate primary between Angie Craig and Peggy Flanagan has drawn substantial outside spending and disputes over AIPAC, although analysts described the Israel contrast as less stark than Michigan’s.

Minnesota supplies the next measurable test of whether Michigan’s result was a state-specific outcome or evidence that anti-Israel positioning has become an advantage in competitive Democratic primaries. The House and Senate races provide separate tests because the policy contrasts and electoral coalitions are not identical.

Police arrested two men after activists broke into and vandalized Ultra Intelligence and Communications in Aberdeen, while the same group claimed a separate attack on logistics company DSV in Doncaster. The group explicitly framed the attacks as an effort to disrupt the UK-Israel weapons trade and said actions against defense-linked firms would intensify.

• People Against Genocide claimed responsibility for the Aberdeen break-in and posted footage showing smashed windows, damaged equipment and anti-Israel graffiti.
• Police Scotland said officers arrested and charged men aged 39 and 18 after the incident.
• South Yorkshire Police are investigating separate criminal damage at a Doncaster business site targeted because of alleged logistics work for Elbit Systems.

The campaign is moving beyond protest into repeated physical disruption of companies several steps removed from Israel, broadening the target set across Western commercial infrastructure. Repetition across sites indicates an organized coercive model rather than an isolated act of vandalism.