Lebanese newspaper inspired by story of student who refused to write a report on the Holocaust ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Monday, November 10, 2025

Lebanese newspaper inspired by story of student who refused to write a report on the Holocaust

Al Binaa, a respected Lebanese newspaper, published this op-ed:

Rare moments we see white smoke in this darkness of my country's long night...We have all entered a tunnel so long, longer than all the suspended speeches that have been delivered since the Palestinian issue began until this very day.

And suddenly... without preamble, hope returns to you, you rejoice, and you believe once again that you are still capable of confrontation... and of victory.

Years ago, during the "global" celebration of the Holocaust that the Jews want to burden the Arab world with the guilt of, one of the directors of a private school in northern Lebanon asked one of the female students to present a report on Nazi crimes against the Jews, supported by photos, evidence, and proofs, considering it part of the methodology adopted by the school!

The student refused to present this report, supporting her opinion with the following points:— If the requirement is to speak about terrorism and massacres, then it is more fitting that we write reports on the massacres by the Jews in Deir Yassin, Kafr Qasim, the Ibrahimi Mosque, Qana, southern Lebanon, Sabra and Shatila, the "Israeli" detention camps, Jenin, and Gaza, and other massacres beyond count.— And if the requirement is to speak about "the expulsion of the Jews from Europe" to the "Promised Land," then the claim is rejected, because the Jews came to Palestine with a programmed, readied, and pre-prepared plan, to displace an entire people to all corners of the globe.

From here, sir Director, I refuse to be the beginning of normalization, and I will certainly not be one of the "runners"... And believe me... we are from a generation that believes in stands of dignity.

The director backed down from his decision, and the student triumphed in the first confrontations to impose normalization.

The incident seems apocryphal - I doubt that any Lebanese school even teaches about the Holocaust to begin with.

But that's not the point. The idea that is is heroic to refuse to study the Holocaust because, something something Palestinians, is not just antisemitism - it is antisemitism that the Lebanese are proud of. A "white smoke in the darkness."

Yes, Lebanon might be a failed state that allowed itself to be hijacked by Iran and even with Hezbollah's defeat it is too frightened to take a stand to take the country back. Yes, it is filled with corruption and militias. Yes, it is on the verge of collapsing. But the Lebanese have something to be proud of - they've taught their children to hate Jews, so they feel they have at least accomplished something with their lives.

(According to the ADL, 86% of Lebanese citizens harbor antisemitic attitudes.)