The Massachusetts Teachers Association (MTA) has been caught in an antisemitic scandal as it has been discovered that the organization is using workbooks steeped in anti-Isreal sentiment that include phrases such as “Zionist bullies.”

Max Page, the MTA president, was summoned to a meeting on February 10 by the Massachusetts Commission on Combating Antisemitism, The Daily Caller exclusively reported.

Page continuously defended the materials even after being shown that blatant anti-Israel bias.

“Some of the materials provided to educators included Palestinian ‘activist’ guides and a children’s book that says ‘a group of bullies called Zionists wanted our land so they stole it by force and hurt many people’ and “children like me keep having their homes taken by Zionist bullies.’ The documents also encourage children to protest and help ‘Free Palestine,’” the report said.

But it gets worse.

Just days after the horrific October 7 attack on innocent Israelis, members of Page’s staff posted messages on social media that read “Free Palestine.”

“The level of anti-Israel sentiment and downright antisemitism emanating from the MTA has been grotesque for a long time but at this point, they might as well be a mouthpiece for Hamas,” Parents Defending Education (PDE) Director of Outreach Erika Sanzi, said to The Caller. “They are silent about the atrocities of October 7th and in the next breath, accuse the Trump administration of committing a holocaust. This is a sick organization that should not be anywhere near other people’s children.”

Page danced around questions about the teaching material that accused Israel of “apartheid,” “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing,” and one social studies teacher who was at the meeting also defended the antisemitic materials.

“History teaching is political, moral, personal and emotional,” the teacher said in defense of the fact that there is no pro-Israel perspective in the teaching materials. “We are misled if we think that we always have to teach both sides of a history.”

The teacher then compared the Trump administration to the Holocaust.

“[E]ven though the Holocaust physically took place in Europe, it is a story that Americans have to reckon with too,” she said. “I think the same is true about what happened on October 7, what is happening in Gaza, and what is to come during this presidential administration.”