Errata: ADL, Magenta and Fair Play Campaign Group Challenge Reports of Holocaust Education Withdrawal in the UK

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According to the MAGENTA mailinglist the story published in Daily Mail and also reported in the Faculty Forum of April 03, 2007 on Teachers Dropping the Holocaust to Avoid Offending Muslims in UK may not have been entirely accurate. MAGENTA refers to the official report from The Historical Association on the Challenges and Opportunities for Teaching Emotive and Controversial History . SPME apologizes for any misunderstandings that may have arisen from its original publishing of this story.

See also following statement by ADL:

FYI – although we did not put up great detail about the rumor, we simply debunked it with a post last week at
http://www.adl.org/Internet_Rumors/UK_Holocaust_Education.htm and have referred the many people asking about it to this link….
Like any rumor, it will flourish and spread – and inevitably it will make a second (and many times a third) pass in the future, so it is helpful to debunk it as much/often as possible.

Brian Marcus
Director of Internet Monitoring
Civil Rights Division
Anti-Defamation League

From Various Sources

The recent reports in the Mail and Telegraph newspapers are based on misreporting of a scholarly paper on the teaching of emotive subjects in the British school curriculum, by the Historical Association.

Their research found one school where this was the case, whereas they also found that the majority of schools dealt with the subject well.

In fact learning about the Holocaust is mandatory in the national History curriculum, and the majority of 16+ pupils go on day trips either to the National Holocaust Museum at the Imperial War Museum or the privately funded Beth Sahlom Musuem of the Holocaust.

Additionally the Treasury gave a £1.5 million grant to the Holocaust Education Trust last year to send 2 pupils per school every year to Auschwitz Birkenau.

Compiled by the FPCG

Errata: ADL, Magenta and Fair Play Campaign Group Challenge Reports of Holocaust Education Withdrawal in the UK

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