The three million-member National Education Association voted July 6 to cut ties with the Anti-Defamation League. According to Labor Notes and other reports, union members speaking on the floor rejected the ADL’s abuse of the term “antisemitism” to punish critics of Israel, its use of hyperinflated statistics on hate crimes to gin up fears about Jewish safety, and its characterization of calls for Palestinian rights as “hate speech.”

“Allowing the ADL to determine what constitutes antisemitism would be like allowing the fossil fuel industry to determine what constitutes climate change,” said NEA delegate Stephen Siegel. NEA members also cited the ADL’s history of discouraging anti-racist organizing, including attacking the anti-Apartheid and Black Lives Matter movements.

The ADL condemned the vote. “With antisemitism at record high levels, it is profoundly disturbing that a group of NEA activists would brazenly attempt to further isolate their Jewish colleagues and push a radical, antisemitic agenda on students,” an ADL spokesperson told Axios in a statement. “We will not be cowed for supporting Israel, and we will not be deterred from our work reaching millions of students with educational programs every year.”

According to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, in March, a coalition of progressive Jewish groups organized a protest at the ADL’s annual summit on antisemitism and hate over what they perceived as the ADL’s support for President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

The proposal automatically goes to its executive committee, which will have a final say on the measure, an NEA spokesperson told Axios.