Red Ice TV - January 21, 2022


Holocaust Education Is Used By The United Nations To Push Multiculturalism And ＂Global Citizenship＂

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global citizenship education
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Henrik Palmgren Lana Lokteff
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Doyle Stevik Zahavit Gross
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The future of Holocaust education, the role of global citizenship and human rights literacy, and how to counter racism and hatred, by Zvi Avinu Gross and Doyle Stevik, the Director of Research and Development at the University of South Carolina.

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00:00:00.000 You 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.
00:00:22.400 Well, 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interesting link here, which now actually has been taken down from the United Nations website, UNESCO, but it's here on an archived version, details just such a thing.
00:00:34.500 It's called The Future of Holocaust Education, The Role of Global Citizenship and Human Rights Literacy.
00:00:41.520 It'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.
00:00:54.080 And here's a couple of paragraphs here from this piece.
00:00:57.280 The future of Holocaust memory and education lies in its ability to be relevant to the students of coming generations.
00:01:04.760 While 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. 0.94
00:01:24.360 That'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. 0.97
00:01:34.240 Paradoxically, she continues, we can transform teaching about the Holocaust from a subject of despair to a subject of hope.
00:01:43.280 We can convey to our students the message that the option of preventing the next Holocaust is in our own hands. 0.95
00:01:49.860 Our students can take specific steps to counter racism and hatred on a local, granular level, and this will impact at the universal, international level.
00:02:00.540 In this way, she continues, adolescence can become agents of change.
00:02:06.760 Sounds like indoctrination, if you ask me.
00:02:09.480 The most important educational message of tikkun ulam, repairing the world, is that we must not be indifferent.
00:02:16.700 We must not be bystanders because indifference is lethal.
00:02:20.360 Thus, 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.
00:02:31.800 Do they extend that same to, let's say, the Palestinians or when white Europeans are attacked on religious or racial grounds?
00:02:39.040 I doubt it.
00:02:40.080 The growing strength, she continues here, of populist and far-right groups in Europe must concern us all.
00:02:47.440 She 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.
00:03:00.820 Of course, she continues here later on, but she exclusively singles out Europe and, of course, European nationalism as being particularly concerning.
00:03:12.760 Not 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.
00:03:25.180 Here's her bio.
00:03:26.040 We don't have to go through all of this.
00:03:27.100 She's educated in Israel and stuff like that.
00:03:29.360 And, of course, she has a very prominent position in the UN.
00:03:32.000 And here's a short interview with Zavahit Gross as well.
00:03:36.520 Check this out.
00:03:36.960 And the first, by the way, I should say, the first guy being interviewed here, too, is Doyle Stevik.
00:03:43.760 He's out of the University of South Carolina, much in the same way they say here.
00:03:48.760 Doyle 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.
00:03:59.360 He has under his research branch here.
00:04:01.840 But check out the clip here.
00:04:04.080 Holocaust education is one piece of the puzzle to resolving the violence we have in society. 0.97
00:04:11.040 Violence may have many causes, and one of them may be bigotry and discrimination.
00:04:15.980 And sometimes we imagine Holocaust education is like a smallpox inoculation.
00:04:21.320 You get a little shot of it, and everything is cured forever.
00:04:24.360 That's clearly not the case.
00:04:25.740 But 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.
00:04:36.720 Well, 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.
00:04:49.940 And 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.
00:05:01.180 Teachers' training matters.
00:05:02.720 We have to provide more in-service training for teachers, especially for this particular complicated issue.
00:05:13.500 And we see that it works.
00:05:15.760 These are not only words, but a teacher can say,
00:05:20.960 I studied and I could implement it practically in the classroom.
00:05:25.580 And this is very important.
00:05:27.280 Nowadays, we have to think about how do we cultivate a culture of remembrance.
00:05:31.700 We'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.
00:05:44.840 And that means that we are going to implement, within teaching Holocaust education, also values education.
00:05:53.200 The Holocaust has proven to be a fascinating subject for educators that goes deeper and deeper.
00:05:59.620 So, when we have a standards-driven education that forces us to go over things in a great hurry,
00:06:07.060 it's difficult to find the depth that we often need to really understand the complexity of something like the Holocaust.
00:06:13.760 What we find is that teachers who get involved with the Holocaust continue to be committed and want to learn more,
00:06:20.540 will go through numerous trainings and continue to find it stimulating.
00:06:24.060 And 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.
00:06:33.000 We have to be more involved in enhancing culture of remembrance, taking the Holocaust as a case study, as a specific case study,
00:06:43.120 and see how can we construct a more responsible society.
00:06:51.460 And always the teachers have to think in the classroom, how can we balance between particularistic aspects and universalistic aspects.
00:07:00.200 We have to think about the contested role of education.
00:07:03.380 We have to think about contestation and opposite opinions that come from different angles.
00:07:12.520 And from this kind of perspective, we can construct together a better future.
00:07:18.860 All right, so that was from the UNESCO website, International Bureau of Investigation.
00:07:23.760 UNESCO.org is the source for this here.
00:07:26.800 And remember as well, we have the International Holocaust Remembrance Day coming up on January 27th.
00:07:33.500 We actually published a bit of a clip.
00:07:35.120 This is going to be 2017, I think, on one of the Weekend Warrior shows.
00:07:40.140 We'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.
00:07:46.560 But yes, so basically, keep that in mind when we talk about these things.
00:07:50.680 It'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.
00:08:06.780 That's being banned.
00:08:07.620 That's being censored and so forth.
00:08:08.920 There 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.
00:08:16.400 And it was virtually outraged about this, that basically we should lie as much as possible.
00:08:20.620 We 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.
00:08:34.120 This is a political weapon and it's a tool to destroy the nationalism that we see and have seen traditionally in Europe as well.
00:08:40.740 This is being actively promoted as a method to, as they said, enhance global citizenship and multiculturalism.
00:08:49.440 It's, see, I wonder, I wonder why they took down this page.
00:08:53.420 It's very interesting.
00:08:54.240 I'm not sure what the reason behind that is.
00:08:55.800 It's, you know, archived on the web archive right now, way back machine.
00:09:00.020 You can still find it there.
00:09:01.180 I encourage that you go through it and check that out because it's kind of interesting.
00:09:05.960 It reveals a lot of where this is going and perhaps that's why they took it away.
00:09:09.700 But, 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?
00:09:19.920 So their right-wing nationalistic, ethno-nationalistic policies are very important to them.
00:09:25.580 It's important that we destroy what we have in the West and European nationalism and European nations and bringing multicultural, globalized citizens.
00:09:32.860 But when it comes to Israel, well, we have to change the attitudes, as you can see here in this story, for example.
00:09:39.800 We have to change the attitudes towards Israel to make sure that Israel is widely, more widely accepted.
00:09:46.360 And that needs to be tolerated, their nationalism.
00:09:48.940 You can't make it up.
00:09:50.160 It's every single time it's the same story over and over again.
00:09:54.880 You can find bad people in life on the time and the interests of Israel and the other Zionists. 0.98
00:10:12.040 If you want to make sure that.
00:10:16.420 You