Deny the Holocaust

Anti-Semitism has many faces and denying the holocaust is one of them.

It should come as no surprise that the government ruling the Gaza strip, Hamas, has refused any textbooks that mention the historical fact of the holocaust.

Gaza's ruling Islamist movement Hamas has resisted suggestions that Palestinian children should be taught about the Holocaust in UN-run schools.

The head of its education committee in Gaza, Abdul Rahman el-Jamal, told the BBC that the Holocaust was a "big lie".

He said that to teach it would be to "grant a big favour" to Israel, which has been fighting Hamas for years.

The UN, which runs most Gazan schools, recently asked local groups whether the Holocaust should be taught.

Read article here; http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8230483.stm

We were reminded of General Eisenhower's quote as we read this article. Upon viewing the concentration camps, he had this to say;

The things I saw beggar description...The visual evidence and the verbal testimony of starvation, cruelty and bestiality were...overpowering...I made the visit deliberately in order to be in a position to give first-hand evidence of these things if ever, in the future, there develops a tendency to charge these allegations merely to 'propaganda.'

It appears that the future that he feared has already arrived.