United Arab Emirates to teach Holocaust in schools, says US embassy
- ‘In wake of historic #AbrahamAccords, UAE will include Holocaust in curriculum for primary and secondary schools’, the embassy tweeted
- The accords refer to UAE normalising relations with Israel in 2020, with Bahrain and Morocco also recognising the Jewish-majority nation
The United Arab Emirates will begin teaching about the Holocaust in history classes in primary and secondary schools across the country, its embassy in the US says.
The embassy provided no details on the curriculum and education authorities in the Emirates, a federation of seven sheikhdoms, did not immediately acknowledge the announcement on Monday.
However, the announcement comes after the UAE normalised relations with Israel in 2020 as part of a deal brokered by the administration of President Donald Trump.
“In the wake of the historic #AbrahamAccords, (the UAE) will now include the Holocaust in the curriculum for primary and secondary schools,” the embassy said in a tweet, referring to the normalisation deal that also saw Bahrain and ultimately Morocco recognise Israel.
Other Arab nations have refused to diplomatically recognise it over its decades-long occupation of land Palestinians want for a future state.
Ambassador Deborah E. Lipstadt, the US special envoy to monitor and combat anti-Semitism, praised the announcement in her own tweet.