The United Arab Emirates will begin teaching about the Holocaust in history classes in main and secondary schools across the nation, the countrys embassy in the U.S.
says.The embassy supplied no information on the curriculum and education authorities in the Emirates, a federation of seven sheikhdoms, did not right away acknowledge the announcement on Monday.However, the announcement follows the UAE normalized relations with Israel in 2020 as part of an offer brokered by the administration of President Donald Trump.
In the wake of the historic (hashtag) AbrahamAccords, (the UAE) will now consist of the Holocaust in the curriculum for main and secondary schools, the embassy said in a tweet, describing the normalization deal that likewise saw Bahrain and eventually Morocco likewise acknowledge Israel.Ambassador Deborah E.
Lipstadt, the U.S.
special envoy to keep track of and fight antisemitism, applauded the announcement in her own tweet.
Holocaust education is a necessary for mankind and a lot of nations, for too long, continue to minimize the Shoah for political reasons, Lipstadt wrote, using a Hebrew word for the Holocaust.
I applaud the UAE for this action and anticipate others to follow suit quickly.
The statement comes ahead of an organized conference of the Negev Forum Working Groups in Abu Dhabi today, which grew out of the normalization.
The conference will see authorities from Bahrain, Egypt, Israel, Morocco, the UAE and the U.S.
attend.
Egypt has diplomatically recognized Israel for decades.The Holocaust saw Nazi Germany methodically kill 6 million European Jews throughout World War II.
Israel, established in 1948 as a haven for Jews in the wake of the Holocaust, grants automatic citizenship to anyone of Jewish descent.Other Arab nations have actually refused to diplomatically recognize Israel over its decades-long occupation of land Palestinians desire for a future state.The announcement by the UAE also follows it and other Arab nations condemned an ultranationalist Israeli Cabinet minister for going to a flashpoint Jerusalem holy site for the first time since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahus new reactionary government took office.The site, understood to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, is the holiest website in Judaism, home to the ancient biblical Temples.
Today, it houses the Al Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest website in Islam.
Because Israel recorded the site in 1967, Jews have actually been permitted to go to however not pray there.Source-- The Associated Press
.
- Agencies.
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