Cleric's misguided attack on UN Holocaust teaching lets Zionist racism go unchallenged

A Hamas-aligned cleric is reported (see the New York Times) to have claimed that attempts by the UN Releif and Works Agency to introduce the teaching of the Holocaust int o gaza schools amounts to 'marketing a lie' are to be condemned. The anger is misdirected.

All people should be taught about the barbarity of so called European civilisation. What should be condemned instead is the complete lack of teaching in Israeli schools of anything to do with historic Palestine and the people that lived there prior to the catastrophe that was 1948. Indeed there is a constant refrain of anti-Arab racism that is encouraged by the state and goes largely unchallenged in civil society.

Also, there is no accurate teaching of the experiences of Jewish people in the Middle East, other than a distorted picture of relentless anti-semitism that hides a rich tradition in which Arab and Jews were able to live side by side for generations.

When Palestinian are dying virtually on a daily basis at the hands of their Israeli oppressors you can understand why they might not see it as a priority to show empathy with those they might see as responsible for their current suffering. But it is not Jewish people as a whole that are to blame but rather the Zionist occupiers that claim to speak in their name.

Today the ethnic cleansers are not in Germany but in the settler state called Israel and it is they that shame the memory of the Holocaust and those that perished.

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