(Korean bar/nightclub)
You'd think they'd know better after so many years under the thumb of the Japanese axis.
Posted on 09/26/2003 9:46:44 AM PDT by yonif
PARIS - A book for religion studies teachers in French public schools has been withdrawn from sale because of disputed statements it made about Jews and the Holocaust, education officials said on Friday.
The Education Ministry's publishing section stopped sales of the new book for public school teachers after hearing criticism that some passages could be offensive to Jews, said the officials who asked not to be identified.
According to the daily Liberation, one passage compared the fate of the Jewish people to the death of Jesus Christ. Another section said some Jews had paranoid reactions to the Holocaust while non-Jews felt overly guilty.
"The part about Judaism could cause controversy," said one official, without giving details. "There were some critical remarks made, but not by the Jewish community."
The new book was the first in a background series for teachers of religious studies, a subject taken up in recent years because widespread ignorance about France's religious heritage meant pupils no longer understood some of its culture.
French public schools have traditionally been hostile to any mention of religion, arguing they must be strictly neutral, but the growing ignorance of the country's heritage and the growing number of Muslim pupils in schools have challenged this stand.
According to Liberation, one passage in the book spoke of "the Jewish people, who have only very distant and politically very suspect links with real Judaism".
Another passage said the Holocaust had prompted "very odd behaviour among Jews and non-Jews, making both very sensitive to any possible resurgence of anti-Semitism. This amounts to an almost paranoid tendency on the one side and often unhealthy guilt feelings on the other."
About 80 percent of French pupils go to public primary and secondary schools, with almost all the rest attending Catholic private schools.
The half a million Jews in France should think seriously about getting the hell out of there.
(Korean bar/nightclub)
You'd think they'd know better after so many years under the thumb of the Japanese axis.
Well imagine that, almost paranoid. It might be that Jewish French have an ancestral memory of being thrown to the Nazis. And those millions of French that either did the throwing or acquiesced. shouldn't have unhealthy guilt feelings, of course. The Jewish French should KNOW that it won't happen again. cough, cough, cough
You could NEVER have a "Hideki Tojo Bar" or "Hirohito Tenno Cocktail Show" in Pusan, Korea, that's for sure.
This coincides with my observations albeit my observations have been limited. I can easily see how this could be true if the sentence were modifed from "odd behaviour among Jews and non-Jews" to "odd behaviour among many Jews and non-Jews".
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