Thanks, Emily, for tackling the important issues. Before even reading this week's post, I am inclined to respond that what should really be required is GEOGRAPHY education. And history. Because Noa Tishby's post from Sundance--random questions asked of antii-Israel demonstrators there--yielded some howlers. Which river? Which sea? What hostages? Funny if it weren't so alarming.
Holocaust education should not end with the liberation of the camps—the Jews at arguably the worst moment in our history—but with the resilience of our response, i.e. with the creation of Israel and its remarkable flourishing.
Kudos to Dee Simon for a focus on the actual Holocaust and educating about Judaism, Jewish history, etc. However, please avoid universalizing and falling into the DEI trap of oppressors vs. oppressed. This poisonous DEI ideology has metastasized in so many educational settings (Harvard, etc.), portraying the 10/7 atrocity as obscenely a justified response to Israel as oppressor. As Bari Weiss and others have argued: DEI must DIE. I suggest avoid moralizing about the Holocaust. Let the Nazi Holocaust speak for itself. No, "but what about..."
It is critical that our Jewish community have the main responsibility for Holocaust Education in the K-12 schools, if only to get the facts straight. The goal of liberated ethnic studies is to reinvent a history that never existed. Holocaust denial and revisionism is becoming common place , even in our own Jewish community. What 10/7 exposed was the vile Jew hatred just below the surface. Now is the time to double our efforts to fight back against the cult that celebrates the genocide against Jews.
Thank you for this important article. I need to mention Spokane has a synagogue as well as a Chabad chapter.
Thanks, Emily, for tackling the important issues. Before even reading this week's post, I am inclined to respond that what should really be required is GEOGRAPHY education. And history. Because Noa Tishby's post from Sundance--random questions asked of antii-Israel demonstrators there--yielded some howlers. Which river? Which sea? What hostages? Funny if it weren't so alarming.
Holocaust education should not end with the liberation of the camps—the Jews at arguably the worst moment in our history—but with the resilience of our response, i.e. with the creation of Israel and its remarkable flourishing.
Kudos to Dee Simon for a focus on the actual Holocaust and educating about Judaism, Jewish history, etc. However, please avoid universalizing and falling into the DEI trap of oppressors vs. oppressed. This poisonous DEI ideology has metastasized in so many educational settings (Harvard, etc.), portraying the 10/7 atrocity as obscenely a justified response to Israel as oppressor. As Bari Weiss and others have argued: DEI must DIE. I suggest avoid moralizing about the Holocaust. Let the Nazi Holocaust speak for itself. No, "but what about..."
It is critical that our Jewish community have the main responsibility for Holocaust Education in the K-12 schools, if only to get the facts straight. The goal of liberated ethnic studies is to reinvent a history that never existed. Holocaust denial and revisionism is becoming common place , even in our own Jewish community. What 10/7 exposed was the vile Jew hatred just below the surface. Now is the time to double our efforts to fight back against the cult that celebrates the genocide against Jews.