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Guadalupe Carrasco Cardona
Guadalupe Carrasco Cardona is an educator, curriculum developer and magnet coordinator who advocated for anti-Israel activism to be part of K-12 public school curricula in America.
Guadalupe Carrasco Cardona has also glorified a murderer as well as suicide, supported violent protests, spread hatred of Israel and Zionists, and engaged in anti-Israel activism.
Cardona is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
Cardona's anti-Israel activism occurred in the wake of October 7, 2023 Hamas terror attacks against Israel.
On October 7, 2023, Hamas murdered approximately 1,200 Israelis, kidnapped hundreds and wounded thousands. War crimes included mass rape and torture. Many Palestinian civilians participated in and supported the attacks, and Gazans working in the targeted Israeli communities gave intelligence to Hamas on where to strike.
For more information, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
As of December 2024, Cardona's Facebook said she was slated to teach an ethnic studies course in Spring 2025 as an adjunct instructor in Chicana/o studies at California State University Northridge (CSUN). CSUN is located in Northridge, California.
Also as of December 2024, Cardona was listed as the magnet coordinator at the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center, part of the Los Angeles Unified School District.
As of the same date, Cardona was listed on the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium (Consortium) website as part of its leadership team in "Chicanx/Latinx Studies."
Cardona was also listed on the Consortium website as a member of the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD)’s Ethnic Studies Curriculum Committee and the Ethnic Studies Now Coalition’s Coordinating Committee.
Cardona was a named defendant in a federal civil lawsuit filed against her individually, and in her capacity as co-founder, CEO, and CFO of the Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium (the Consortium), by "Concerned Jewish Parents and Teachers" opposed to the "Teaching Palestine" segment of the ethnic studies curriculum she developed.
Cardona is listed on the staff bio page of the Consortium website as having graduated with a master's degree in curriculum and instruction, language and literacy, from Arizona State University (ASU). ASU is located in Tempe, Arizona.
The Consortium website also lists Cardona as "pursuing her doctoral degree in educational leadership" at CSUN, slated to have graduated in 2024.
Cardona graduated with a bachelor's degree in Latin American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1999.
As of January 2025, Cardona's LinkedIn said she was located in Los Angeles, California.
On October 31, 2024, The Free Press published an article titled: "The Kindergarten Intifada" by Abigail Shrier. The article reported that in August 2024, Cardona participated as a panelist in a meeting "...to discuss...how to turn their K-12 students against Israel." The meeting was organized by the United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), the second-largest teachers union in the country.
Embedded in the article was a 42-minute video of the members-only meeting. Panelists were seated at a table draped with a keffiyeh, featuring three speakers: Cardona, William Shattuc, and Ron Gochez.
The keffiyeh is a Palestinian headdress traditionally worn by men, which has become a symbol of Palestinian nationalism.
William Shattuc, an anti-Israel schoolteacher spoke first and said: "[00:16:48]: "...our union is inherently political..." and [00:17:18]: "...we're looking to take political action...we use this pin to have conversation with our coworkers about the genocide in Gaza and about a ceasefire..."
Shattuc displayed the pin for the LA Educators for Justice in Palestine, which includes a watermelon. Shattuc said [00:17:47]: "We use this pin to...build our group from the rank and file of UTLA... and [00:18:58]: "...and it's paid off to the point where we have a group of nearly 300 people now in UTLA..."
The watermelon has been appropriated by anti-Israel activists as a symbol of Palestinian "resistance" to "Israeli occupation," as it shares the Pan-Arab colors. It gained popularity following the Hamas terror attacks of October 7, 2023.
Shattuc also said [00:19:12]: "...we went to marches, we went to the encampments at college campuses, all over the city, we went and spoke to people directly involved in the fight..."
Shattuc said [00:00:06] / [00:18:29]: “...we know that good history education is political education, right? And when we are coming up against political movements, like the movement for Zionism, that we disagree with, that we’re in conflict with, they have their own form of political education…”
Cardona said [00:23:06]: "One of the lessons in the Intro to Ethnic studies section of this model curriculum was social movements...like Black Lives Matter, United Farmworkers, etcetera, etcetera, right, you know, American Indian movement, BDS..."
Cardona said [00:23:46]: "...and so, once the Jewish Legislative Caucus caught wind of BDS being in there, they became the enemy of ethnic studies, and it's been a crazy fight every since..."
Cardona said [00:24:28]: "...in...2022 [I] got served with a federal civil rights lawsuit, so I'm currently, right now, the subject of a lawsuit, a federal lawsuit for solidarity...with Palestine."
Ron Gochez, a high school teacher and anti-Israel activist on the panel, introduced his talk with a slide titled: "HOW TO BE A TEACHER & ORGANIZER...AND NOT GET FIRED" Gochez said [00:34:44]: "...some of the things that we can do as teachers is to organize. We just have to be really intelligent about how we do that. We have to know we're under the microscope; we have to know that Zionists...are going to try to catch us in any way that they can to get us into trouble."
Gochez continued: [00:34:56]: "So I organized-- I helped the students to organize. We go to those actions. And a lot of us [protest] actions having brought our students. Now I don’t take the students in my personal car. I have members of our organization who are not LAUSD [Los Angeles Unified School District] employees. They take those students, and I just happen to be at the same place at the same time with them.”
Gochez continued [00:35:16]: “It’s like tomorrow I go to church and some of my students are at the church. ‘Oh, wow! Hey, how you doing?’ We just happen to be at the same place at the same time and look! We just happen to be at a pro-Palestine action, same place, same time.”
Gochez said [00:35:29]: “The students, they just so happen to want to organize a teach-in. And, so, students at our school, at your school…and several high schools now have organized their own teach-ins where they educate others, they inform other students about the genocide that’s taking place in Palestine. What we do, as teachers, of course, is to advise, to help.”
Gochez said [00:36:01]: "So how do we do all this without getting fired?...I don't know how in the h*ll we have not been fired yet."
Gochez concluded [00:36:11]: "We have to organize. That's the bottom line. If they come after one of us, the District has to know that it will be a bigger headache for them to try to touch one of us than it would be to just leave us alone...they have to know that we're organized and we are going to put up a fight, and they cannot get rid of us."
In December 2024, Cardona shared [slide 5] on her Instagram Stories Highlights a graphic depicting Luigi Mangione, the man of murdering the United Healthcare (UHC) CEO on December 4, 2024, as a prisoner wearing a cap from the character and a mask from the movie "."
The "V for Vendetta" mask, also known as the "," depicts Guy Fawkes, a member of a plot that attempted to blow up one of London's Parliament houses in 1605. Following the "V for Vendetta" movie's release, the mask "came to represent broad protest...used in...anti-establishment protests around the world."
On December 21, 2024, Cardona shared [slide 1] on her Instagram Stories Highlights a photo of Mangione in an orange prison suit and handcuffs, being led by police. The text read: "Very few school shooters have gotten the death penalty. Yet the U.S. is trying to charge Luigi Mangione so he gets the death penalty for killing one man..."
On August 7, 2024, Cardona shared on Instagram a photo of a "sidewalk star" like those honoring actors and placed on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Instead of an actor's handprint, the star was marked with the handwritten name "AARON BUSHNELL" and a hand-drawn outline map of Israel, meant to represent Israel and the areas occupied by Palestinian territories.
Cardona’s post was in support of a violent protester, U.S. Air Force serviceman Aaron Bushnell, who killed himself in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C, on February 25, 2024. He livestreamed his suicide, and said: "I am about to engage in an extreme act of protest. But compared to what people have been experiencing in Palestine at the hands of their colonizers, it's not extreme at all..." As he self-immolated, he yelled “Free Palestine!”
Cardona wrote on the post: "❤️️🍉."
On December 22, 2024, Cardona shared [slide 8] on her Instagram Stories Highlights a video of Professor Haim Bresheeth wearing a keffiyeh and a placard around his neck marked "Jewish Network for Palestine." The man who recorded this video asked Bresheet [00:00:01]: "I've spoken to some Zionists and they say that Jews who support Palestine, they're not Jews; they're Neturei Karta. So what do you have to say to that?"
Bresheeth responded [00:00:10]: "I think Zionists are not Jews. They behave in a way that Jews never behaved for 2,000 years. They are racists. They are anti-Semitic. They are, of course, colonialists. They commit genocide. This is not Jewish. There is nothing Jewish about what they're doing. There's nothing Jewish about Israel. They should be ashamed. And if they think we're not Jewish, they mean we are not like them. We're not killing people. Yeah, they're right. We will not join them. We will not support them. We will shame them until they will disappear. They are a shame on Judaism. They are a stain on Judaism. They should go where racism is accepted. Not in Britain. Not in anywhere that I know..."
On December 2, 2023, Cardona posted on Instagram a flyer advertising a December 8, 2023 event titled: "
Courageous Stories: Teaching Palestine in Liberated K-12 Ethnic Studies "
The event featured Cardona as one of the speakers along with anti-Israel agitators Lara Kiswani, Celine Qussiny, Lallia Allali, and anti-Israel professor Rabab Abdulhadi.
The event was organized by several anti-Israel organizations including the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Palestine Youth Movement (PYM).
CAIR reportedly has “significant ties” to the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and Hamas. A number of former CAIR employees have been convicted on fraud and terrorism-related charges that resulted monetary fines, jail terms and, sometimes, deportation. In May 2007, CAIR was listed as an “unindicted co-conspirator” in a U.S.-filed action against the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) for providing funds to Hamas. CAIR was also listed as a terrorist entity by the United Arab Emirates, in 2014.
On April 17, 2024, Cardona posted on Instagram: "...Spread the word! This is the official flier for the 2024 May Day march in Los Angeles...!" Event organizers included the anti-Israel groups Palestine Youth Movement (PYM) and Al Awda.
Included in the post was a flyer that read: "MAY DAY 2024 / WORKER POWER WORLDWIDE! / DON'T COMPLY WITH GENOCIDE!" The flyer showed drawings of masked protesters holding signs, one of which read: "FREE PALESTINE NOW! END THE OCCUPATION! STOP ALL US $$$ TO ISRAEL 🍉."
On April 25, 2024, Cardona posted on Instagram: "SOLIDARITY IS BEAUTIFUL...Thank you to everyone who participated in the Press Conference today @ LAUSD to demand that the district stop endorsing/participating in trips to Israel! Students, parents, teachers and community organizations joined together in solidarity w Palestine and against the genocide being committed by settler colonial state of Israel!"
Included in the post was a photo of the anti-Israel event held at the Los Angeles United School District (LAUSD) in which she participated. Cardona is shown to the left of the speaker, in a red shirt and jean jacket, standing next to a woman in a hijab and burka. Several protesters were shown wearing keffiyehs and face masks.
On May 12, 2022, Cardona was a named defendant in Case No. 2:22-cv-03243 filed in the U.S. District Court, Central District of California, Western Division, by "Concerned Jewish Parents and Teachers of Los Angeles, et al. (Plaintiffs), against the "Liberated Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Consortium (the Consortium), United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA), Cecili Myart-Cruz, Theresa Montano, and Guadalupe Carrasco Cardona, in their individual and official capacities as public employees, et al. (Defendants)."
An Amended Complaint was filed October 16, 2023.
Cardona is identified in the lawsuit as "the co-founder, chief executive officer and chief financial officer of the Consortium," and "a teacher of Ethnic Studies employed by the Edward R. Roybal Learning Center, an LAUSD public school," and "a member of the LAUSD-UTLA Ethnic Studies Task Force" and was sued in her individual and official capacity for her role in creating and promoting the "Teaching Palestine" curriculum as part of California's mandatory Ethnic Studies graduation requirement.
The Amended Complaint provided a sample lesson plan from "Teach Palestine" which defined the words Apartheid ("a system of institutionalized segregation based on race...often used to describe Israel's...system of racialized discrimination and separation"), Zionism ("a political ideology that calls for the creation and expansion of Israel as a Jewish state in historic Palestine"); and Settler ("An Israeli citizen who lives on Palestinian land or takes over Palestinian homes...").
