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Last night, the nine-member NEA executive committee voted against severing ties with the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) over claims of how it treated organizations critical of Israel.

“Today, following the culmination of a thorough review process as governed by NEA rules, including a vote by NEA’s Executive Committee earlier this week, NEA’s Board of Directors—representing the broad and diverse membership of the NEA, including representatives from every state—voted not to implement this proposal,”

This comes after, in early July, at the NEA Representative Assembly, when representatives voted not to partner with the ADL after accusations of anti-Arab rhetoric.

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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's always the executive level overriding the public, actual democratic vote. Bad faith actors and infiltrated vote manipulators need to be culled when found. This is what happens when they are left alone.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 days ago

That's because it's pretty easy to bribe just the handful of people at the top of the hierarchy, and those very same people make sure the rules of that hierarchy make them worth the bribing (by, for example, letting them override the expressed will of tens or hundreds of thousands of people or even millions)

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

Well there's your list of people to vote out. Recall, or whatever the rules of operations in that Union allow for.

[–] ogmios@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 days ago

"Democracy"

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago
[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Wonder how much AIPAC paid for that vote. That org is straight fucking poison.