The Holocaust and the UK

Thanks to Marcia Lehman.

Dear Friends of the Heart,

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Marty Morand is professor emeritus, Indiana University of PA, where he served as director of the Institute for the Study of Labor Relations. He sent, to a friend, the following:

The Holocaust is part of the UK's national curriculum. It's actually one of the few historical realities all UK schoolchildren are required to learn about. No one has complained about that or proposed that it should be changed." See full letter below.)... In a way this is related to the attack on Jimmy Carter whom I knew and who is not only the best past president the US ever had but the most effective president as defender of Israel. He has been maligned as anti-Semitic and anti-Israel because there has been a misguided conflation of criticism of Israeli government as an anti-Semitic attempt to destroy the nation of Israel -- not too dissimilar from
Cheney's characterization of Congressional opponents of the war in Iraq as unAmerican and disloyal.

... The Holocaust is part of the UK's national curriculum. It's actually one of the few historical realities all UK schoolchildren are required to learn about. No one has complained about that or proposed that it should be changed. According to a newspaper report (unconfirmed) there appears to have been ONE school in the north of England where a teacher is said to have felt uneasy about teaching the subject to a class of mainly Muslim children. But there are literally tens of thousands of classes filled to the brim with Muslim schoolchildren where the matter is taught routinely without the slightest problem.
...The Russian people sacrificed more to fight and defeat the Nazis than any others. Why no mention of the French or Dutch, who "looked on" and did nothing? Not to mention the Poles and Lithuanians!
...In fact, Holocaust Memorial Day (which happens also to be, depressingly, my birthday) is now a government recognised and sponsored event in UK. That's a welcome development. I just wish there was also a memorial day for the victims of British imperialism, who are, historically speaking, as numerous as the victims of Nazism.