Hamas to U.N.: Don’t teach Holocaust

[oberliner]

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Hamas said it will stop the United Nations from teaching Palestinian children in Gaza about the Holocaust.

The history of the Holocaust is set to become part of a human rights curriculum in Gaza schools run by the U.N. Relief and Works Agency that are attended by more than 200,000 Palestinian children, The Guardian reported.

"We cannot agree to a program that is intended to poison the minds of our children," said a statement from Hamas' Ministry for Refugee Affairs. "Holocaust studies in refugee camps is a contemptible plot and serves the Zionist entity with a goal of creating a reality and telling stories in order to justify acts of slaughter against the Palestinian people."

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/03/01/2743141/hamas-to-un-dont-teach-holocaust

[Turbineguy]

1. Those Hamas guys

are watching too much Fox News.

[azurnoir]

2. This has cropped up before

Hamas Complains, So U.N. School Will Not Teach Gaza Students About Holocaust

Thursday, September 03, 2009

http://www.cnsnews.com/node/53475


but thanks for keeping us informed

[oberliner]

3. More info on these latest remarks (from The Guardian)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/28/hamas-un-holocaust-lessons-gaza

[azurnoir]

7. again thanks for the update this row has been going on for about 18 months now

I do not see any harm in teaching Palestinian children about the Holocaust, Hamas does it self no favors here

[PCIntern]

4. Ultra-sick shit...

from these Deniers. In keeping with their P.O.V., I for one don't believe that Gaza exists. I've never seen it, so how could it really be there?

[LeftishBrit]

5. 'We cannot agree to a program that is intended to poison the minds of our children'

Like showing them TV programmes about how evil the Jews are and how they deserve to be killed?

Religious right-wingers are among the nastiest things on earth, and that applies to the Right of all religions.

[Jmaxfie1]

6. Wow, that's all I can say. n/t

[LeftishBrit]

8. 'Wow' generally does apply to Hamas pronouncements.