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The Free Press
Welcome to Hamassachusetts
By Frannie Block and Will Sussman
02.13.25
Inside the Massachusetts statehouse on Monday, State Representative
Simon Cataldo displayed the image of a dollar bill folded into a Star of
David in front of a packed audience of teachers, activists, and staffers.
They were there to attend a hearing on the state of antisemitism in
Massachusetts public schools.
“You’d agree that this is antisemitic imagery, correct?” Cataldo, who co-
chairs the state’s Special Commission on Combating Antisemitism, asked
Max Page, the president of the Massachusetts Teachers Association
(MTA)—the largest union in New England, representing 117,000
members.
“I’m not gonna evaluate that,” Page responds calmly.
Cataldo pressed him.
“Is it antisemitic?”
Page continued to sit stoically, before breaking into a smile. “You’re
trying to get away from the central point,” Page said, “which is that we
provide imagery, we provide resources for our members to consider, in
their own intelligent, professional way.”
Source:
https://www.thefp.com/p/welcome-to-hamassachusetts