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Hamas govt urges children not to study Holocaust
Maan News ^ | 3/4/11 | Staff

Posted on 03/04/2011 9:13:07 AM PST by Impala64ssa

GAZA CITY (Ma’an) -- Gaza government officials on Tuesday urged school children to leave classrooms if human rights lessons included information about the Holocaust.

The Hamas-led government said it would do everything it could to prevent children being taught about the Holocaust in UNRWA schools in the Gaza Strip. It accused the UN agency of overstepping its humanitarian and relief role.

UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness explained that human rights education has been part of the agency's curriculum in schools across the region since 2002. In Gaza, the agency runs 228 schools, educating over 200,000 children.

"Because of the situation in Gaza, we have been enriching further our human rights education" in the coastal enclave, Gunness said, explaining that the program was anchored in the principles of the UN Declaration of Human Rights.

Gaza Education Minister Mahammad Ashquol said his ministry "will never allow teaching Holocaust to Gazan refugee camp children."

"Messing up Gaza's education system is a red line which can’t be ignored," he added.

The Hamas-run Ministry of Culture also issued a statement slamming the inclusion of information about the Holocaust in the UN curriculum, which it described as a "challenge" to Palestinians.

(Excerpt) Read more at maannews.net ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Israel; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: chrisgunness; holocaust; israel; theholocaust; unrwa; waronisrael
The Holocaust is a "challenge" to the Palis? Is the teaching of slavery and Jim Crow a "challenge" to White schoolchildren?
1 posted on 03/04/2011 9:13:09 AM PST by Impala64ssa
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To: Impala64ssa

What’s the Problem Hamas?Are you afraid that your children will learn that You’ve been lieing to them for the last thirty years,And the Jews are NOT the cause of their problems,You and your beliefs are.


2 posted on 03/04/2011 9:35:13 AM PST by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: Impala64ssa
The real questions are:
Do an average Joe and Jane in the American Main Street here have a true image of these animals?
And, will the facts described in the article be ever reported by the MSM?
3 posted on 03/04/2011 9:47:06 AM PST by TopQuark
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To: puppypusher

“Hamas govt urges children not to study Holocaust”

And I urge all members of Hamas to strap explosives to their chests and blow themselves up. Go ahead and cash in our chips and collect your 72 virgins or whatever. Why wait? Go ahead.


4 posted on 03/04/2011 10:17:03 AM PST by Made In The USA (This post may be recorded for quality purposes.)
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To: Made In The USA

It is the 72 Virginians they will meet.


5 posted on 03/04/2011 10:36:37 AM PST by DonkeyBonker
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To: puppypusher

Maybe because the kids might find out that the Arab world was largely allied with the Nazi regime of Germany in WW II and are therefore complicit in the Holocaust? Do they care?


6 posted on 03/04/2011 10:51:53 AM PST by ArmyTeach (Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain ... Iowa 61)
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7 posted on 03/04/2011 4:39:33 PM PST by SJackson (Normal people don't sit cross-legged on the floor and bang on drums, WI State Sen Glenn Grothman (R))
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To: Impala64ssa

Beavens to Hetsy! “Challenge” the little fellahs?! That’s not what education is for. It’s to teach them WHAT to think, not HOW! Challenges are for athletic sports, such as kitten strangling and rock throwing.


8 posted on 03/06/2011 12:12:45 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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