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  Is teaching accurate history ever a bad thing.
context: I have to admit to some cynicism at the headline, but the article backs it up in a pretty uplifting way. 
  
  According to the embassy, the content of the studies on Nazi Germany's genocidal murder of six million Jews during World War II will be developed in collaboration with Israel's official Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, and will be included in the curriculum of primary and secondary school students.
  
  That’s progress, real progress. >
  
  Whoa. That’s actually a pretty big deal. A mostly Islamic middle eastern country working directly with Israel to teach about history that affects an opposing religion and that disproportionately affects Jews/Israel? Definitely progress. >
  
  Judaism and Islam are not opposing religions. Many Arab countries, including the UAE, have small Jewish populations, some of which are growing.
  Don't mistake Arab animosity towards Israel as a country for animosity towards the Jewish people writ-large. >
  
  
  Many Arab countries, including the UAE, have small Jewish populations,
  
  3 countries isn't many, and non of them have more than 2000 people. 800,000 Jews used to live in the Arab world, but not anymore - all were ethnic cleansed.
  
  Don't mistake Arab animosity towards Israel as a country for animosity towards the Jewish people writ-large.
  
  They don't see the difference either. >
  
  Odd. A lot of my Googling leads to the ethnic cleansing of several hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from Palestine, but I’m struggling to find much information about ethnically cleansed Jews from Arab countries except from Jewish sources.
  So far, from what I’ve gathered, the Arab world feared Jews would strengthen the “Zionist movement”, that they saw as a threat, and prohibited Jews from leaving Arab countries in fear they would move to Israel. Some allowed emigration, and others had forced expulsion, such as after the events of the Suez Crisis, whereby Israel, backed by the UK and France, invaded Egypt. Iraq prohibited Jews from leaving until the 1990’s. Suggesting that the animosity towards Jews were less about Jews, at least on a state level, and more geared towards anti-Zionism. I’ve found instances where Jews were attacked in Arab countries, so I understand that many, if not all, Jews lived in fear when they were forced to remain where they were.
  Do you have any non-Jewish sources that I can use for a clearer picture as to what happened? I’m only seeing half the story. It’s important to look at a wide variety of sources in order to have an informed view of what happened. >
  
  Emirati guy here, holocaust was always taught in school. This is news because it's in partnership with isreal. >
  
  ? I know someone who taught in a school there, they were not allowed to mention it, to mention Israel, to show any jewish symbols, or the Israeli flag....the gov had really strict requirements as to what was prohibited.
  I'm glad its changing, but it was still restricted when they left about 4 years ago. >
  
  I attended kindergarten to highschool (american and British schools) in Dubai and everything you stated is correct. No mention of the Holocaust at all and Israel was by law blacked out on every map, atlas or Globe >
  
  Sounds like an awful backwards country. >
  
  Well it's changing, as per the news article. >
  
  Let's see them out Israel on a map.