Congress grills liberal cities’ school districts over antisemitism

Facing questions about the Berkeley, California, curriculum on antisemitism and the Israel-Palestine conflict, Berkeley Unified School District superintendent Enikia Ford Morthel, testified that she thought in certain contexts, such as a call for genocide, “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” can be antisemitic. But Morthel also said it was appropriate to teach Berkeley students that some believe the phrase is a call for peace.In a new curriculum on the Middle East conflict, literature taught to students says, “For some Palestinians, ‘from the river to the sea’ is a call…