California Department of Ed official linked to antisemitic beliefs gets reinstated
May 7, 2021
(JNS) An official in California’s Department of Education accused of promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories about the Holocaust and the Sept. 11 terror attacks has recently been reinstated, reported The Sacramento Bee.
California state superintendent of public instruction Tony Thurmond said during an April 23 call with reporters that a third-party investigation into Craig Heimbichner, who works as an administrator in the Department of Education’s charter-school oversight division, determined that there was no basis for disciplinary action. He was reinstated “immediately.”
Thurmond pointed out that “obviously, if there was some evidence or circumstances otherwise, we’d be having a different conversation today.”
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California Department of Ed official linked to anti-Semitic beliefs gets reinstated
Craig Heimbichner said his writings about conspiracy theories were written from “a scholarly standpoint.”
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California state superintendent of public instruction Tony Thurmond said during an April 23 call with reporters that a third-party investigation into Craig Heimbichner, who works as an administrator in the Department of Education’s charter-school oversight division, determined that there was no basis for disciplinary action. He was reinstated “immediately.”
Thurmond pointed out that “obviously, if there was some evidence or circumstances otherwise, we’d be having a different conversation today.”
An administrator at the California Department of Education was put on paid leave Thursday while department officials investigate allegations that he authored books and articles about conspiracy theories and used anti-Semitic rhetoric.
The department began an internal investigation of Craig Heimbichner, who was promoted in January to the position of education administrator in the charter schools division, after receiving a complaint last week related to his published writings and statements, said Daniel Thigpen, spokesman for the department.
The department also is planning to hire a third-party investigator to assist in the review, Thigpen said.
Heimbichner also was the subject of a Sacramento Bee article Thursday that revealed he had written articles calling the 9/11 terrorist attack an inside job and promoted Holocaust conspiracies. One of Heimbichner’s two books focuses on fraternal organizations, like the Scottish Rite Masons, which he has intimated was behind the assassinati
A supervisor at the California Department of Education was placed on paid leave this week after his writings, containing what the Anti-Defamation League termed “antisemitism, offensive Holocaust theories and hate-filled conspiracies,” were brought to the agency’s attention.
A report Wednesday in the Sacramento Bee identified Craig Heimbichner, an education administrator in the charter schools division at the CDE, according to his LinkedIn page, as someone who had “trafficked in extreme conspiracy theories for more than a decade,” including that the 9/11 attacks were an “inside job” and that Holocaust memorials are “part of a deep-state plot.”
Among the writings linked to Heimbichner is a blog post dated Jan. 24, 2013 on the website Paranoia: The Conspiracy Reader. Titled “The House of Horrors,” it claims that the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and information that is “a staple of public education” such as “that 6 million Jews died i
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