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The Spectacle Blog
The Hamas government in Gaza has angrily reacted to a plan by the UN to teach Palestinian schoolchildren about the Holocaust.
Hamas Education Minister Mohammed Asqoul stated, “Playing with the education of our children in the Gaza Strip is a red line.” Well, of course it would. The Hamas narrative is that the Holocaust was cooked up the Jews themselves. Besides if Palestinian schoolchildren were actually taught about the Holocaust it might interfere with their daily chants of “Death to Israel!!!” and “Death to the Jews!!!” during recess.
The Palestinian Authority government in the West Bank also opposes the UN plan. This should also come as no surprise. Let us not forget that the “moderate” Mahmoud Abbas wrote his doctoral thesis on Holocaust denial describing the deaths of six million Jews as a “rumor.”
Occam's Tool| 3.22.11 @ 6:09PM
There is no possibility of peace with these swine. Pushing on Israel to deal with these savages is madness.
FastJohnny| 3.22.11 @ 6:20PM
Hamas has a lot of common ground with our own homegrown liberal Holocaust deniers.
Occam's Tool| 3.22.11 @ 6:33PM
Indeed---Finkelstein comes to mind. Thank you, FJ.
C Bowen| 3.22.11 @ 7:27PM
Goldstein supports the UN dictating education curriculum? This place gets stranger and stranger,
Occam's Tool| 3.22.11 @ 7:57PM
No choice---these guys are under UN Refugee authority to some degree, with UN schools, remember? We're not talking about American students here, Mr. Bowen.
Occam's Tool| 3.22.11 @ 7:59PM
And the UN is actually wanting to do the right thing, for once. Mirabile Dictu.
Sean| 3.22.11 @ 8:12PM
Is the UN also planning to educate them about the holodomor , the people killed in Red China, mass death in Siberia, and Rwanda? I wouldn't want UN education either. My grandmother was in a German camp, but not everyone needs to know about it as focused education.
FastJohnny| 3.23.11 @ 8:34AM
They do when their behavior is akin to those who perpetrated the holocaust in the first place. If Hamas had it's way, all the Jews would be eliminated from the face of the earth, just like Hitler's final solution. UN education working or not, the kids still fire missles at Israel during recess.
Clint| 3.22.11 @ 9:23PM
"Five Million Forgotten
Growing up in a Polish community, and raised by Polish-speaking parents, I heard many stories about the atrocities of the Holocaust. I learned very early how one of my family's homes in Poland was burned to the ground by Nazis. I learned that my uncle was shot in the head by Nazi soldiers because they suspected that the family was hiding a Jewish woman. Painful as it was for them to speak about it, my parents felt it was important that I knew the story of the Holocaust.
It was only after I moved to the Los Angeles area several years ago that I realized that many people were not aware that millions of victims of the Holocaust were not Jewish. Outside the Polish community, I heard very little mention about the five million non-Jewish victims -- usually referred to as "the others".
Whenever I would say that my parents were survivors of the Holocaust, people would look at me oddly and say, "Oh, I didn't know you were Jewish?" The impression I got was that people were not aware of any other Holocaust victims except Jews. This concerned me greatly.
I am Jewish. I converted in 1979 after studying at the University of Judaism one year before marrying a wonderful Jewish man. I belong to a temple where our daughter attends religious school. I love the Jewish religion and I admire the Jewish community. In no way do I want to diminish the enormous magnitude of the victimization and murder of the 5,860,000 Jewish people during the Holocaust. The Jews were singled out by the Nazis for total extermination -- a significant fact that I do not repudiate, nor want to diminish in any way. The Jewish people have done an extraordinary job of making the younger generation around the world aware of their persecution and immense tragedy during the Holocaust.
But what about "the others"? There were five million of them. Who were they? Whose children, whose mothers and fathers were they? How could five million human beings have been killed and forgotten? Thus, I began my search. After studying several carefully documented books, and interviewing non-Jewish survivors, I found more information about the five million forgotten than I had ever imagined. I found out things that most of the world does not know. My parents were correct. They were truly victims of the Holocaust. All Polish people suffered enormously during the Holocaust -- Jews and non-Jews.
Eleven million precious lives were lost during the Holocaust of World War II. Six million of these were Polish citizens. Half of these Polish citizens were non-Jews. On August 22, 1939, a few days before the official start of World War II, Hitler authorized his commanders, with these infamous words, to kill "without pity or mercy, all men, women, and children of Polish descent or language. Only in this way can we obtain the living space [lebensraum] we need.
Heinrich Himmler echoed Hitler's decree: "All Poles will disappear from the world.... It is essential that the great German people should consider it as its major task to destroy all Poles."
http://remember.org/forgotten/
Timothy L. Pennell| 3.23.11 @ 8:12AM
Hey. Why read about one, when you can just perpetrate one of your own?
Right?