Arab world fumes as Israel adds Holocaust curriculum to Israeli Arab schools

Walla reports that Israel plans to add Holocaust education to Arab schools in Israel. The program will emphasize the topics of Nazi genocide against the Jews.

The Ministry of Education is distributing a complete set of Holocaust materials to students in grades 7-12. The Ministry of Education estimated that due to the sensitivity of the subject is will be implemented gradually

Depending on the curriculum, educators will teach Arab students about Jsef Mengele's infamous "twins" studies and show a video about the Auschwitz concentration camp with subtitles and audio explanations in Arabic. The teachers will direct the students to discuss ethical issues.

The response from the Arab world was immediate.

Egypt's Al Ahram talked about Arab schools are being "forced" to discuss a historical fact - and illustrated the article with this photo equating Hitler with Netanyahu:

Tasnim News Agency says "Israeli authorities claim that the Jews in Germany suffered during World War II a «genocide» with fictional numbers at the hands of the Nazi government headed by Adolf Hitler, in order to gain the sympathy of the international community with the Jews on the one hand, and to intimidate and push them to allow Jews to emigrate to occupied Palestine on the other hand, with access to financial aid to the Zionist entity as compensation from the Germans who allegedly killed them in crematoria, and to cover up the massacres committed by the Zionist occupation authorities against the Palestinian people."

Aqsa TV reports that Secretary-General of the Islamic Christian Commission, Dr. Hanna Issa, warned of the danger of Israel teaching the Holocaust to Israeli Arabs, who he considers under occupation since 1948. He insists that the Palestinian Authority control the curriculum of Israeli Arab schools, complaining, for example, that "occupation authorities aim to indirectly change the minds of Palestinian students, for example by publishing in textbooks book pictures of the Israeli flag."

Al Jazeera calls it "an occupation of Arab schools" quotes a critic as saying that teaching the Holocaust to Arabs is a "violation of civil rights against a national minority in accordance with the international law."