00:00:00.000You know, we've said for some time that the Holocaust is used as a weapon and as a tool against Europeans who advocate for their own group, for our survival and for our ability to preserve ourselves and continue to have countries that belong to us and hand that over to our future children that also looks like us and behaves like us and carry on our traditions and so forth.
00:00:22.400Well, this interesting link here, which now actually has been taken down from the United Nations website, UNESCO, but it's here on an archived version, details just such a thing.
00:00:34.500It's called The Future of Holocaust Education, The Role of Global Citizenship and Human Rights Literacy.
00:00:41.520It's by Professor Zahavit Gross, chairholder, UNESCO chair in the Education for Human Values, Tolerance and Peace School of Education Bar-Ilan University in Tel Aviv.
00:00:54.080And here's a couple of paragraphs here from this piece.
00:00:57.280The future of Holocaust memory and education lies in its ability to be relevant to the students of coming generations.
00:01:04.760While study about the Holocaust is important in and of itself, it is even more important to learn from the Holocaust in terms of promoting global citizenship, human rights, religious tolerance and multiculturalism to ensure that such evils do not occur again.
00:01:24.360That's right. So by replacing the white European people, which of course is a conspiracy theory, but also it's happening and we're celebrating that, we will prevent another Holocaust.
00:01:34.240Paradoxically, she continues, we can transform teaching about the Holocaust from a subject of despair to a subject of hope.
00:01:43.280We can convey to our students the message that the option of preventing the next Holocaust is in our own hands.
00:01:49.860Our students can take specific steps to counter racism and hatred on a local, granular level, and this will impact at the universal, international level.
00:02:00.540In this way, she continues, adolescence can become agents of change.
00:02:06.760Sounds like indoctrination, if you ask me.
00:02:09.480The most important educational message of tikkun ulam, repairing the world, is that we must not be indifferent.
00:02:16.700We must not be bystanders because indifference is lethal.
00:02:20.360Thus, Holocaust education should be constructed in such a way that the world can counter hatred, whether based on race, ethnic background, color, gender, or religion.
00:02:31.800Do they extend that same to, let's say, the Palestinians or when white Europeans are attacked on religious or racial grounds?
00:02:40.080The growing strength, she continues here, of populist and far-right groups in Europe must concern us all.
00:02:47.440She says, the worldwide wave of anti-Semitism in which innocent Jews are attacked solely for being Jewish while walking the streets of Sydney, Melbourne, Brussels, Paris, Rome has to worry us.
00:03:00.820Of course, she continues here later on, but she exclusively singles out Europe and, of course, European nationalism as being particularly concerning.
00:03:12.760Not Israeli nationalism or that that's a dangerous right-wing movement with everything that it's doing, dropping white phosphorus on an ethnic and religious group that they oppose in the region and so forth.
00:03:36.960And the first, by the way, I should say, the first guy being interviewed here, too, is Doyle Stevik.
00:03:43.760He's out of the University of South Carolina, much in the same way they say here.
00:03:48.760Doyle Stevik's research is broadly concerned with the civic mission of schools and the role of schools in creating a sustaining, tolerant, democratic society in a globally integrated world.
00:03:59.360He has under his research branch here.
00:04:25.740But we can begin to point out the dangers of discrimination and where it can lead and sensitize people to the issues so they recognize it in similar situations around the world.
00:04:36.720Well, I think that the most important thing that we can see out of this book is that it really enhances global citizenship, and it has a major impact on citizenship education.
00:04:49.940And this is something which is very, very important, because what we thought is that Holocaust education is relevant only to the historical arena or the historical instruction.
00:05:27.280Nowadays, we have to think about how do we cultivate a culture of remembrance.
00:05:31.700We're not talking simply about teaching history or teaching a specific historical event, but we see it in a very broad manner, where we want to enhance a culture of remembrance.
00:05:44.840And that means that we are going to implement, within teaching Holocaust education, also values education.
00:05:53.200The Holocaust has proven to be a fascinating subject for educators that goes deeper and deeper.
00:05:59.620So, when we have a standards-driven education that forces us to go over things in a great hurry,
00:06:07.060it's difficult to find the depth that we often need to really understand the complexity of something like the Holocaust.
00:06:13.760What we find is that teachers who get involved with the Holocaust continue to be committed and want to learn more,
00:06:20.540will go through numerous trainings and continue to find it stimulating.
00:06:24.060And they will make time in their classes, find ways to make time, to help provide the students the depth of understanding that they don't get in most subjects.
00:06:33.000We have to be more involved in enhancing culture of remembrance, taking the Holocaust as a case study, as a specific case study,
00:06:43.120and see how can we construct a more responsible society.
00:06:51.460And always the teachers have to think in the classroom, how can we balance between particularistic aspects and universalistic aspects.
00:07:00.200We have to think about the contested role of education.
00:07:03.380We have to think about contestation and opposite opinions that come from different angles.
00:07:12.520And from this kind of perspective, we can construct together a better future.
00:07:18.860All right, so that was from the UNESCO website, International Bureau of Investigation.
00:07:23.760UNESCO.org is the source for this here.
00:07:26.800And remember as well, we have the International Holocaust Remembrance Day coming up on January 27th.
00:07:33.500We actually published a bit of a clip.
00:07:35.120This is going to be 2017, I think, on one of the Weekend Warrior shows.
00:07:40.140We'll probably upload that around that time because that could be interesting for you guys to watch as well if you haven't seen it before.
00:07:46.560But yes, so basically, keep that in mind when we talk about these things.
00:07:50.680It's not only about the historical aspects and all of this, and of course, there are already a whole group or a whole field, essentially, that's been outlawed and banned around this, which is namely the other side, the revisionist material, as it's popularly called.
00:08:08.920There was even a, I think, I forget if it was a congressman or senator recently who said that we should have objectivity when we teach about history and the Holocaust.
00:08:16.400And it was virtually outraged about this, that basically we should lie as much as possible.
00:08:20.620We should be as partial as possible and not cover, you know, as many, as wide of an area as possible from a historical perspective when we educate or, if you will, then indoctrinate children in this.
00:08:34.120This is a political weapon and it's a tool to destroy the nationalism that we see and have seen traditionally in Europe as well.
00:08:40.740This is being actively promoted as a method to, as they said, enhance global citizenship and multiculturalism.
00:08:49.440It's, see, I wonder, I wonder why they took down this page.
00:09:01.180I encourage that you go through it and check that out because it's kind of interesting.
00:09:05.960It reveals a lot of where this is going and perhaps that's why they took it away.
00:09:09.700But, of course, if you do a little bit of a search regarding the woman who wrote the article being interviewed here, of course, the attitudes towards Israel has to change as well, right?
00:09:19.920So their right-wing nationalistic, ethno-nationalistic policies are very important to them.
00:09:25.580It's important that we destroy what we have in the West and European nationalism and European nations and bringing multicultural, globalized citizens.
00:09:32.860But when it comes to Israel, well, we have to change the attitudes, as you can see here in this story, for example.
00:09:39.800We have to change the attitudes towards Israel to make sure that Israel is widely, more widely accepted.
00:09:46.360And that needs to be tolerated, their nationalism.