NSW kids 'don't know about Holocaust'

[Ognir]

July 10, 2008 - 12:11PM
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The Jewish community says it is "greatly concerned" NSW students can pass through school without learning about the Holocaust.

NSW Education Department head Michael Coutts-Trotter learned a month ago that the Holocaust had been omitted from the state's mandatory history course.

"You can get through compulsory schooling in NSW and never know that the Holocaust, the destruction of Jews in Europe, actually happened," he said in a speech to high school principals, reported by News Ltd.

"You will know a lot about Don Bradman, and that's terrific. But I think to live life, you need to know the Holocaust happened."

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies Vic Alhadeff said on Thursday he was greatly concerned with the situation and commended Mr Coutts-Trotter for drawing attention to it.

"This is a matter of great concern to the Jewish community, which works towards social cohesion as a matter of principle," he said in a statement.

"To this end, the Board of Deputies is working in consultation with the NSW Department of Education, the NSW Board of Studies and other community groups, especially those whose histories include experiences of state-sponsored terror and genocide.

"We applaud Mr Coutts-Trotter for drawing attention to an issue which is germane to social cohesion in our society."

A spokeswoman for the NSW Board of Studies said it was not true that students had no opportunity to learn about the Holocaust.

"There are opportunities to study the Holocaust and its consequences in a number or ways in both mandatory and elective history," she said.

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[joeblow]

Sniff, sniff, how could this be true? Haven't we learn already that we have to placate each and every Jewish desire or Hitler will rise from the grave and sodomize us all? The Holohoax was the greatest disaster to ever befall mankind, just think of all the opportunities for communism, pornography, and embezzling that have been lost forever.

Wake up people, never again!

[kolnidre]

July 10, 2008 - 12:11PM
"To this end, the Board of Deputies is working in consultation with the NSW Department of Education, the NSW Board of Studies and other community groups, especially those whose histories include experiences of state-sponsored terror and genocide.

Hey, I'm all for that part about learning about state-sponsored terror, especially the Mossad's role in the Bali nightclub mini nuke bombings of particular concern to Australians, and the long list of Zionist- and Israeli-sponsored and -perpetrated acts of terror throughout the 20th and 20st centuries.

[Lix Tetrax]

Kids should be taught that it is an extortion scam utilising some sort of collective guilt complex. There are too many details that don't add up for the holocaust to be true. Evidence and logic suggests the so called 'death camps' were labour camps, with many deaths from typhus and starvation. The gate above auschwitz reads 'albeit macht frei' which means 'work and you will be free'. Also the offical death count on the tours of the labour camps keep dropping. 6 million to 1 million and now I think its gonna go down to 700,000. Red cross documents suggest under 250,000 or so.

 :evil:

[K-Sensor]

We aren't going to get any progress using conventional outlets. We need to educate the people ourselves.