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Teaching Terrorism in American Classrooms
(City Journal) Nicole Neily - Should American K-12 students be taught, without informing their parents, to sympathize with terrorists? That's exactly what's happening in schools across the country, thanks to instructional materials supplied by the nonprofit Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA). Its Teach Palestine lesson plans reach up to 160,000 American teachers. The curriculum whitewashes Hamas terrorism and promotes anti-American narratives. MECA's director of Gaza programming once served as deputy director of the Union of Healthcare Worker Committees (UHWC), recognized by USAID in 1993 as a smokescreen for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), a U.S.-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization. According to tax filings, MECA has sent donations to PFLP-affiliated unions and groups known for openly glorifying terrorism.