Evil is lurking! So where do they actuall y find anti-zionist material being taughtAnti-Zionist and controversial Middle East content has generally not been part of California's official state-approved curriculum. Instead, it has surfaced primarily through local school districts that hired outside, private consulting groups or developed their own materials independently.The primary vehicle for this content is a framework called the "Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum" (LESMC), which was created by activist educators who felt the state's official guidelines were too watered down.Specific examples of where this material has appeared and what it included include:1. Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD)In early 2025, SAUSD settled a major lawsuit brought by a coalition of Jewish organizations (including the Anti-Defamation League and the Brandeis Center).The Content: Court documents and text messages revealed that a steering committee developed courses behind closed doors. The materials included characterizations of Israel as a "European settler colonial state" and sought to entirely omit Jewish history. The district also hired a consulting firm, the Xicanx Institute for Teaching and Organizing, whose consultants openly promoted anti-Zionist views.The Outcome: The district agreed to completely halt and redesign three ethnic studies courses.2. San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD)San Francisco has been a major battleground for localized curriculum choices.The Content: Prior to 2026, SFUSD used a "homegrown" ethnic studies curriculum that faced severe backlash from local parents and lawmakers. Contested lessons included an activity where high school students were instructed to role-play as Israeli soldiers herding Palestinians into refugee camps, as well as presentations that critics argued utilized antisemitic caricatures to illustrate stereotypes.The Outcome: In mid-2026, the district voted to permanently replace its original curriculum with a standardized textbook and guide ("Voices: An Ethnic Studies Survey") that sidestepped the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to avoid further polarization.3. Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)LAUSD has faced prolonged legal battles from groups like the Concerned Jewish Parents and Teachers of Los Angeles.The Content: The lawsuit alleged that individual teachers and administrators were surreptitiously introducing the "Liberated" curriculum framework into classrooms. This framework uses maps that depict all of modern-day Israel as Palestine, defines Zionism as inherently violent or colonial, and promotes the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.The Outcome: Federal judges repeatedly dismissed these specific lawsuits on technical grounds (lack of standing), ruling that plaintiffs could not prove a unified, district-wide mandate was actively forcing students to learn the material, or that encountering conflicting political views constituted a legal injury.State-Level PushbackBecause of these localized incidents, California passed legislation creating a statewide Antisemitism Prevention Coordinator and a mandate requiring all ethnic studies materials to be factually accurate, balanced, and free from partisan advocacy. This has forced many local districts to freeze their independent ethnic studies programs to avoid legal exposure.
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For decades, the mainstream Jewish community and conservative Christians often found themselves on opposite sides of domestic cultural issues. However, the aggressive overreach of radical activist networks in public education has shattered old political divisions, forging an unprecedented, highly effective coalition [10.1].This unexpected alliance works in practice through three major common interests:1. A Shared Stand for Parent Rights and TransparencyThe underhanded tactics used to advance curricula like San Francisco’s Voices—such as midnight votes and copyright shields—alienated Christian families just as much as Jewish families.Breaking the Monopolies: Conservative and Christian legal networks have joined hand-in-hand with Jewish advocacy groups to mandate total educational transparency. They are deploying joint resources to demand that public school boards publish every single reading list and lesson plan online, permanently dismantling the ability of radical administrators to hide their work.Electoral Force: In suburban communities like Fremont and across Silicon Valley, Christian, Jewish, and immigrant parent groups (such as East Asian and Indian coalitions) are combining their voting power [10.1]. They are pooling campaign funds to systematically remove radical progressive officials from local school boards and replace them with moderate, transparency-first candidates.2. Uniting Against the "Oppressor vs. Oppressed" FrameworkTraditional Christians and Jewish advocates share a fundamental rejection of radical identity-based theories that divide children into rigid moral categories based on race or religion.Defending Basic Values: Both communities view the "Liberated" framework as an assault on universal values, meritocracy, and individual character. Christian parents refuse to let their children be taught that their faith or traditional values are inherently oppressive, while Jewish parents refuse to let their children be targeted by biased political dogmas.3. Bipartisan Legislative and Federal EnforcementThis alliance has successfully elevated local school board grievances into historic federal and state-level protections.The Right to Worship Act: Just days ago, on August 6, 2026, a major bipartisan, bicameral coalition led by Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Representative Tom Suozzi (D-NY) introduced the federal Right to Worship Act. Backed heavily by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), this bill establishes strict 100-foot protective buffer zones and heavy civil fines to stop hostile activist crowds from blockading or harassing congregants outside houses of worship.The Federal Crackdown: The Trump administration’s upcoming 15-city DOJ task force and FBI deployment is heavily cheered by red-state conservatives. They view the federal audits into deep-blue California municipalities as the ultimate enforcement of civil rights, proving that local progressive immunity expires where federal law begins.The progressive establishment completely miscalculated. They assumed they could isolate Jewish families by using anti-racist language, but their reliance on secrecy and radical tactics instead forced a historic real-world alignment. Mainstream Jews, traditional Christians, conservatives, and diverse immigrant communities have formed a massive, united front—permanently forcing the radical movement into a corner as the legal guardrails close in [10.1].
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I am wondering though are there physicists who say time is completely man made and is not real. Thought for 6s Yes — some physicists say that, but almost none mean “time is a made-up calendar like money.” They mean the flow, the global now, or time as a fundamental ingredient is not in the basic laws. Clocks, aging, and change still happen.Einstein already wrote that for physicists the distinction between past, present, and future is “only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” He meant there is no single moving present for the whole universe. He did not mean clocks are fake. physicsworld.com Julian Barbour is the blunt case. In The End of Time he argues there is no flowing time and no hidden time axis. Reality is a heap of complete “Nows.” What we call history is structure inside a Now (a “time capsule”), not travel along a line. Motion and passage are how we read differences between configurations. That is as close as a working physicist gets to “time is not real.” It is a minority view, taken seriously as a research program, not as settled fact. en.wikipedia.org Carlo Rovelli is the most visible living voice. He has written that time does not exist at the fundamental level: loop-quantum-gravity equations need no time variable; past and future look the same in microscopic laws; the “flow” is largely how a coarse-grained, heat-sensitive brain sits inside rising entropy. He also says our experience of time is not a mere error — it is real for us, like the sky “turning” because Earth rotates. So: not fundamental, not man-made from nothing, but perspectival. theguardian.com Others nearby, not identicalPage and Wootters: in a globally frozen quantum universe, “evolution” is entanglement with a clock subsystem. Nima Arkani-Hamed and many quantum-gravity / holography people: spacetime itself is probably emergent, not basic. Lee Smolin often disagrees with full timelessness and defends a real present; useful as a contrast. What almost nobody in physics claims: that seconds, cesium clocks, or “Tuesday” are arbitrary social inventions with no physical correlate. Units and calendars are human. Duration, causal order, and proper time along a worldline are not.So the accurate map is:Claim Who Status No universal flowing now Einstein, most relativists Mainstream Time not in the deepest equations Rovelli, some quantum gravity Active research Time is only an illusion; only static Nows Barbour Minority, discussed Time is a human convention like money Almost no physicist Not a physics position Your “time doesn’t exist” slogan sits nearest Barbour and popular Rovelli. The field’s careful version is: the thing we feel as a river is not a basic piece of the world; change and clocks still are.
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