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Withdrawn from Senate Ed Com AB 715 flyer_7.12.25

AB 715 Withdrawn from Senate Education Com. Agenda!

Thanks to the tremendous efforts of the broad CA Coalition to Defend Public
Education, AB 715 was pulled from the July 9th Senate Education Committee
agenda! AB 715 proposes to streamline the process to make complaints
against teachers and school districts for permitting so-called
“antisemitic” lessons, materials or conversations in class. This bill
falsely defines antisemitism as any mention of Palestine or criticism of
Israel. Anonymous complaints would be allowed, and complaints would go
directly to a proposed state Coordinator on Antisemitism, who would not
need to consult with local educational entities. Because of the censorship
proposed in this bill, it has been opposed by the CA School Boards
Association, CA Latino School Boards Association, CA Teachers Association,
the ACLU and over 70 community and labororganizations.



The fact that AB 715 was suddenly pulled from the Education Committee
shows people
power works. The thousands of emails and phone calls our community members
made to senate offices made clear that the public overwhelmingly rejects
this legislation. As a result, the pro-Israeli lobby groups pushing this
bill didn’t have enough votes to ensure passage through the committee, so
they pulled it from the agenda.



This is an important victory but likely not the end of our fight. The
politicians and lobby groups seeking to censor Palestine and repress any
criticism of the State of Israel are expected to either introduce a new
bill or revive and amend AB 715, probably in August, so we must remain
vigilant! We will ask you to mobilize again later this summer if this bill
reemerges.

Sumud! Solidarity!

CA Palestine Solidarity Coalition & CA Coalition to Defend Public Education

https://defendcaeducation.org

Local Info: southbay@jewishvoiceforpeace.org
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