In September 2026, Texas completed a sweeping rewrite of its social studies curriculum. The State Board of Education voted 8 to 4 on September 4 to adopt new high school standards covering United States History, Government, World History, and World Geography. The most contested provision requires students to identify 1948 as the year the modern state of Israel was established “in the ancestral homeland of the Jews.” The package also strengthens Holocaust instruction across the curriculum.
The standards are set to reach classrooms in 2030. One of the most visible forces behind the changes was Proclaiming Justice to the Nations, an evangelical Christian nonprofit that advocates for Israel and against antisemitism. Its founder and president, Laurie Cardoza-Moore, testified before the Board and argued that Judeo-Christian foundations belong at the center of how the state teaches American history. PJTN later announced that the Board had accepted several of its recommendations on civics, history, social studies, and Holocaust education, though its September 16 statement did not specify which ones. “Students cannot fully understand America if they do not know and understand the laws, history, ideas, and traditions which shaped America,” Cardoza-Moore told the Board.
PJTN is a tax-exempt nonprofit headquartered in Franklin, Tennessee. Its own mission statement describes an organization built to educate and mobilize Christians, Jews, and all people of conscience in support of Israel and the Jewish people. Like many philosemitic groups on the Christian Right, it produces media, raises funds, campaigns against BDS measures, and wages sustained battles over textbooks and school standards. Its television program Focus on Israel reaches close to two dozen TV affiliates and satellite broadcasters worldwide.
Cardoza-Moore is the campaign’s central public figure. She grew up Catholic, later converted to evangelical Christianity, and now identifies her work squarely with Christian Zionism. To strengthen her standing with organized Jewry, she points to family oral history tracing the Cardoza name to Portuguese Jews forced to convert during the Inquisition. She says she first encountered that family story after visiting Israel’s Diaspora Museum in 2003 and later heard from relatives that her great-grandfather revealed the family’s Jewish roots on his deathbed.
Her influence extends well beyond the media. House Speaker Cameron Sexton appointed Cardoza-Moore to the Tennessee Textbook and Instructional Materials Quality Commission, where she served as a public member from July 2022 through June 2025. Sexton then appointed her to the state’s social studies standards committee, which developed the standards the Tennessee State Board of Education adopted in February 2024 for implementation in the 2027 to 2028 school year.
Cardoza-Moore brought a long record of pro-Israel activism to those positions. She traces her textbook work to 2012, when PJTN challenged a Pearson Publishers human geography textbook used in Tennessee that the group said legitimized the 2001 Sbarro suicide bombing in Jerusalem. PJTN says the disputed passage was removed. She then drove Tennessee’s 2015 anti-BDS resolution through the state legislature, the first formal condemnation of the boycott movement by any state legislature in the country and has promoted similar efforts ever since.
Cardoza-Moore is no stranger to controversy. Her campaign against the Murfreesboro mosque and her attacks on Rep. Ilhan Omar drew sharp condemnation from Muslim civil rights advocates. At the Texas Board hearing, she questioned why CAIR representatives could address the Board at all, citing Governor Greg Abbott’s November 2025 proclamation designating CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations and transnational criminal organizations under Texas law. CAIR responded by filing a federal lawsuit challenging the proclamation as unconstitutional.
Texas is not alone in adopting pro-Israel educational standards. Florida offers the closest earlier precedent. On July 14, 2021, the Florida State Board of Education adopted new Holocaust Education standards and revised Civics and Government standards in the same session. The Holocaust standards cover Jewish history, antisemitism, survivor testimony, and the establishment of the modern state of Israel. The civics package includes benchmark SS.7.CG.1.1, which requires 7th graders to analyze the influences of ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and what the state calls the Judeo-Christian tradition on America’s constitutional republic.
The pattern reached the Deep South again in 2024. Alabama’s 2024 social studies framework, approved by the state Board of Education in December 2024, covers ancient Israel, Judaism, the Holocaust, antisemitism, Zionism, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and adds a Holocaust Studies elective. An earlier anti-BDS resolution the state passed in February 2016 was superseded that same year by a state contracting law barring public entities from doing business with companies that boycott Israel.
Other states have moved in the same direction in recent years. Iowa made Holocaust instruction part of HF 2545, a 2024 education law Governor Kim Reynolds signed alongside requirements to teach ancient Israel and World War II. Governor Reynolds then signed an executive order in June 2025 directing the state education department to make available supplemental resources on Jewish history, the Holocaust, and Israel for all Iowa schools. Oklahoma’s Bible-infused 2025 social studies standards met a different fate: the state Supreme Court struck them down in December 2025, ruling that the Board of Education had violated the state’s Open Meeting Act by approving last-minute changes without adequate public notice.
Driven by a need to ensure that Jewish supremacy remains unchallenged, figures like Cardoza-Moore will desperately work to find ways to manufacture support for Israel among the American public. They intend to achieve this by infecting school curricula with pro-Israel and philosemitic content designed to sanitize the image of Israel after conducting an industrial-scale mass murder campaign in Gaza since October 7, 2023.
However, they will find their work increasingly difficult due to the rising tide of anti-Israel sentiment across the United States and the broader West. The Gaza genocide has acted as a catalyst, finally opening the public’s eyes to the true nature of the Jewish state and its countless supporters worldwide. While the Zionist power structure may continue to secure tactical victories at the state level, the future looks increasingly bleak for them as history returns and the world’s oldest hostility against Jewish misbehavior steadily reclaims its place in mainstream politics.
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Texas is the most ideologically american place on earth. It's more american than america. What I mean is, it is a purely materialistic capitalist state where literally nothing matters as long as it makes money. If you are of the opinion that texas means anything, at all, in any way shape or form, you are incorrect. It is the most vapid, diverse place on earth. It isn't a place for anyone and a place for everyone, which means the same thing. If this makes you mad, come at me. Native texan, lived in the state and did most meaningful things in life there. Left the state, best thing I ever did, aside from marrying my wife and having my first child.
The United States is literally a playground for jews to do whatever they want. Fucking insane.