The Times November 7, 2008 "Every secondary school is to get a Holocaust specialist to ensure that the subject is taught comprehensively and sensitively." http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article5106164.ece __________ Why is this one historical event to get such special treatment by the UK government? In whose interest is it, that British children, born in the 21st century, must have this one topic drummed into them by a "specialist"? .
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Because of the rise of antisemitism.
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why are they holding ufo-crash drills in UK elementary schools?
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How about a Glencoe Specialist, a St Bartholomew Day's Specialist, and a Droheda Specialist?
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Look in the mirror. Congratulations!
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According to Rabbi Edward Feinstein, "The Holocaust is the worst tragedy in all of human history." http://books.google.com/books?id=pnV6egtgsukC&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35#v=onepage&q&f=false More people were killed in the Holodomor (well, look at that; Yahoo's spell check doesn't even recognize that word!), so I can only conclude that the lives of non-Jews are worth less than the lives of Jews.
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The only way to keep a flawed historical event considered truth is to teach it to people while they're young and gullible. I can only recall of 2 historic "facts" that rely on nobody being allowed to ask questions about them for them to remain facts. The holocaust and September 11.
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Because the Holocaust of Muslims civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan was getting out of proportions and was part responsible for tony blair getting out. so the labor government wanted to divert the attention of gullible from the holocaust in Iraq and Afghanistan to the original holocaust since 1900. Also elections were merely a year away and labor wanted donations/money from Jews to help them during elections or fund their election campaign.
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Terrifyingly I have to agree with KAPS. The reason this was put forward in 2008 was purely as a cynical device by the useless Labour Government that we had to gain votes amongst the Liberal left and pressure groups from the Jewish Community. After labour had refused to condemn aggression towards Jews by Muslims they risked losing the Jewish vote. Therefore you have to produce a sound bite that brings them back into the fold. As to the rest of his usual claims about the 6 million Holocaust every year then please feel free to read previous answers of mine or read his blog. It takes about 5 minutes to realise that not one of his newspaper articles says there was a massacre of 6 million but he will persist, believeing that everybody else is as intellectually challenged as he is. Ray.
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I think all genocides in the human history should get their share too. Not fair to just focus on one.
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