Hamas weighs in on Holocaust education....
Ok, now it appears they don't teach about the holocaust in Palestinian schools...
Hamas condemned the United Nations on Sunday, saying it planned to teach Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip about the Holocaust – but the UN agency which runs schools in the enclave would not confirm any change.
Branding the Nazi genocide of the Jews "a lie invented by the Zionists", the Islamist movement which runs the Gaza Strip wrote in an open letter to a senior UN official that he should withdraw plans for a new history book in UN schools.
A spokesman for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which educates some 200,000 refugee children in Gaza, said the Holocaust was not on its current curriculum. He would not comment on Hamas's statement that it was about to change.
Palestinians resent the way world powers reacted to the Holocaust by supporting the establishment of Israel in 1948, a move that left half the Arab population of then British-ruled Palestine as refugees in Gaza, the West Bank and abroad.
Hamas said it believed UNRWA was about to start using a text for 13-year-olds that included a chapter on the Holocaust.
In an open letter to local UNRWA chief John Ging, the movement's Popular Committees for Refugees said: "We refuse to let our children study a lie invented by the Zionists."
UNRWA spokesman Adnan Abu Hasna said: "There is no mention of the Holocaust in the current syllabus." Asked if UNRWA planned to change that, he declined to comment.
posted by GayandRight @ 3:45 PM
3 Comments:
In Ontario, Holocaust education is not part of the curriculum. It is not manditory for any student to learn about the Holocaust.
Not a huge surprise about not teaching about the holocaust, there are deniers here in Canada and in other western countries. Yes this needs to be in the news, and we also need to focus on all the fixes we need to do here at home.
Considering their own history, why is it so hard to accept that a genocidal regime other than their own ever existed?
Considering their feelings toward Jews, you'd think they'd worship the final solution as one of the greatest moments in history, not deny it.
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