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| By Israel Insider staff and partners April 2, 2007 |
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Schools in the United Kingdom are dropping the Holocaust from history lessons to avoid offending Muslim pupils, a Government-backed study has revealed, the Daily Mail reported.
The findings have prompted claims that some schools are using history 'as a vehicle for promoting political correctness.'
The study, funded by the Department for Education and Skills, looked into 'emotive and controversial' history teaching in primary and secondary schools.
The researchers gave the example of a secondary school in an unnamed northern city, which dropped the Holocaust as a subject for GCSE coursework.
The report said teachers feared confronting 'anti-Semitic sentiment and Holocaust denial among some Muslim pupils.'
It added: "In another department, the Holocaust was taught despite anti-Semitic sentiment among some pupils." But that same department feared Muslim rage on another front and "deliberately avoided teaching the Crusades ... because their balanced treatment of the topic would have challenged what was taught in some local mosques."
A third school found itself "strongly challenged by some Christian parents for their treatment of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the history of the state of Israel that did not accord with the teachings of their denomination."
The report concluded: "In particular settings, teachers of history are unwilling to challenge highly contentious or charged versions of history in which pupils are steeped at home, in their community or in a place of worship." |
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